Another Way to Share Your Astrophotography: Video Slide Shows
Date: Aug 31, 2021
Typically, we capture our images, process them, and then share them. I share my images on this website, but also on social media. This is pretty common.
But once you have a collection of images that you are proud of, there is another way to share your collection - with a video!
I am not a video guy, so most of what I do with video has to be pretty simplistic! So if I can do it, almost anyone can!
There are many tools that allow you to make a list of still images and use them to make a video. Choose your images and the sequence you want them in, add some timing and transitions, and a title and credits image. Finally, find a nice musical backing track you have what you need to create a nice little video of the images you want to share!
I use both Mac and Windows platforms, but for this, I found it a bit easier to do with the Mac. I used this simple Youtube video as a guide and I was up and running in minutes:
Create a Slideshow With iMovie In Less Than 3 Minutes (#1251)
I imported my image jpegs to an album the Photos app, and then used iMovie to import the frames, add frame durations and transition, and even some text labels. Then I search for royalty-free music with a “spacey ambient feel” and found one I liked. The result is attached.
I have not tried this on my window computer, you might want to check out this Youtube like as a possible starting point:
Sharing your video can be done in a variety of ways. You could copy it to an online cloud service and share links to it, but I have a free Youtube account and I use it to host videos for this website so that is a natural way for me.
What do you think of this way of sharing?
