How to Make an iMovie Photo Slideshow with Music?

iMovie for Mac lets you organize some photos of your memorable photography, turn them into your favorite showcase, and then premiere them on iMovie Theater. That’s it. Let’s see how iMovie works.

How to Make a Photo Slideshow in iMovie?

iMovie is the built-in program coming with every new Mac. If you uninstalled for some reason before, please reinstall it first.

Step 1 Make preparation. Create an album of all the photos that you want to make a slideshow and arrange them in the order you want them presented in iPhoto. It might be a good idea to edit your photos in iPhoto before import them into iMovie.

Step 2 Launch iMovie, choose a theme that suits your project best, name your slideshow and select an event to place it in.

Step 3 Once a blank timeline appears, click the “iPhoto Library” option that is listed in the left side panel of iMovie, locate the album of photos you created and make some adjustments to clips and transitions as your desire, for example, re-arrange the order of photos, change the cover theme, etc.

Step 4 Add background music. Select music tracks in “iTunes Library” on the right “Library” tree of iMovie, or click “Import” tab as the top of iMovie and you can go through your Mac and import music.

That’s how to make slideshows in iMovie. In practice, you will experience more than the above. The biggest challenge that you make a photo slideshow in iMovie will be adjusting the panning effects and, if needed, the soundtrack fades of your slideshow. Adding soundtrack is another puzzle for beginners. If you haven’t used iMovie much, you may prefer to the following method.

How to Make Slideshows in Easier Steps?

In this part, we recommend the best alternative to iMovie – Fantashow, a Photo Slideshow Maker, which works on Mac OS X with easier workflow and faster performance.

Step 1 Install and run it on your Mac and select your desire showcase style from Library tree on the left of the App. There are many options: New, Popular, Premium, Anytime, Family, Baby, Birthday, Love, etc. Once find out your favorite one, click “Apply” to start making your slideshow. Then the Application automatically jumps to “Personalize” tab.

Step 2 This program supports importing photos and videos by simply dragging and dropping. After all photos are loaded, click “Fantashow Music” to use the default music of this software or drag and drop your popular music to the slideshow to add soundtrack.

Step 3 Optimize as your need. Click “Set Duration” icon between “Style” and “Intro Twinkle” to set the duration of each photos or videos. Double click “Audio Track” to open “Edit Music” window and there you can set the duration of the background, increase or decrease volume and fade in/out effect as you like. Click “Intro Twinkle” tab to select intro, credit or texts to your own slideshow.

Step 4 When all done, click “Export” or hit “Share” and then you go to a window where you can save your slideshow in local disk and mobile devices or share it to YouTube, etc, even burn it to DVD.

No matter which way you prefer to, don’t hesitate to create your own and favorite slideshow by yourself.