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Movies from Still Images

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Create video from still images fast

You can convert existing content from one format into another in a few minutes. If you have photos or slides, come along on this amazing journey to create movies.

Today’s video is about 7-minutes and covers the why and how of using your existing files as the bases for a movie.

  • Mac photos to slideshow to exported m4v file in seconds
  • Slides from Keynote, PowerPoint, Google Slides, and Canva in minutes
  • Play slides and record voiceover narration
  • Export your files as mp4s
  • Save, export, upload your finished video to the social channel(s) of you choice
  • Embed your videos on your website
  • Share videos with your fans
  • Include video files on your Author Profiles

Powerpoint Slides to Video

PowerPoint is probably the best known for its slide making software. I have friends who operate PowerPoint to map out workflows, create video thumbnails, and other off-label uses.

An easy way to convert your PowerPoint presentations lives in the Slideshow portion of the app.

  • Play a slideshow,
  • Record voice-over narration
  • Export your narrated slideshow as a mp4 file
  • Save the movie file
  • Upload to the video repository of your choice
  • Share the video

Microsoft has more information for you to peruse on how to save your presentation as a video.

Keynote to video

I work in the Mac universe and Keynote is Apple’s answer to PowerPoint. Each has their pros and cons. You can take your Keynote slides and turn them into a movie. Learn more at Apple.

Make a Photo Slideshow on a Mac

It blew me away how quick I could take photos from my library and create a movie. Read more at the links shown below.

https://mackeeper.com/blog/how-to-make-a-slideshow-on-mac/

https://support.apple.com/guide/quicktime-player/create-a-movie-with-an-image-sequence-qtp315cce984/mac

Canva

I made the video I share with you today using Canva. I started with a presentation template, customized the content, colors, fonts and added my branding.

After I was happy with the slide deck, I selected the option: present and record.

I shared my presentation, recorded narration and exported the file as a mp4.

I downloaded the mp4 from Canva to my computer before I added it to my YouTube channel.

If you want to create video from Canva for Instagram, read this post on their blog.

More Software to Explore

After you make your movie, where are you going to post and store it? YouTube and Vimeo are the most well-known options.

Vimeo

Vimeo is the other major video sharing site. You can post to Vimeo or YouTube. It well known both offer sound choices for video delivery. Vimeo is a paid service, you can try it out for free. Decide which service you prefer for storing and delivering your videos.

If you are into TikTok, see what Vimeo offers you.

More Tools for Video Creation

Adobe Spark

I work in Adobeland nearly every day. Adobe has tools for OS and desktops. Adobe Spark and Adobe Express help you create videos.

https://www.adobe.com/express/feature/video/images-to-video

https://www.adobe.com/express/create/video/photo

One of the articles you may want to read is from Social Media Today: 4 Ways to Create Engaging Video Content from Still Images

https://www.socialmediatoday.com/marketing/4-ways-create-engaging-video-content-still-images

Animoto

One of the grandaddies of turning images into movies, Animoto is still around. I used Animoto to make movies back in the early days of web design.

https://animoto.com/features/photo-video-maker

https://jumpermedia.co/best-instagram-video-editing-apps/

Lumen5

Convert your posts to videos using Lumen5. It uses artificial intelligence to generate videos and is a great way to repurpose content.

And read how to create for Instagram.

Loom

To record video, Loom is a good option. You can start off with a free account and record up to 5-minute videos. Not strictly what we are talking about today, yet good to know and use. I like the quality of Loom videos. You can record your full screen, a window or selection, and decide if you want to record the desktop only, desktop/window plus from a camera, or camera only.

Get high quality results fast, with Loom. You can include a call to action button on your video if you share from Loom.

Free to get started with a variety of paid plans which give you white-label use of the software and extend your recording time.

Pick one and try it

If you have been reluctant to try creating movies, now you have some new options. You can decide to appear on camera, share your face, share your voice, share your book.

I would love to see what you create.

Turn your media into movies and post a link about your experience at https://facebook.com/bookmarketingmentor

Tomorrow, I will give tips on asking for book reviews.

Book Marketing

30-Day Challenge Author Profiles

30-Day Challenge for Authors – Author Profiles

Welcome, Day Two of the 30-day Challenge for Authors.

I’m Judy Baker, book marketing mentor. We’re looking at my calendar here in Canva.

And today I am going to be talking about author profiles. So let’s go over to Amazon. What you want to do first is to claim your Amazon Author Central profile.
And you do that by going to Author Central and then marketing and distribution, you’ll be going to KTP and to your marketing page.


So let’s just zip over there and on your, on your page, you can see here’s author central, and it’s going to ask you to choose what market most of you, I believe will choose the amazon.com because you’re in the United States.

But if you were in another country, you would select the one that’s appropriate for you. From there, you can now see my Amazon Author Central profile.


What’s on my Author Profile page?

This is my photograph, taken by Star Dewar, a photographer. She’s done my headshots for years and you can find her at https://starshotsphotography.com/

So you want to have a good recent photograph of you up here and over time, you’re probably going to need to update it. Be sure if someone met you, they would know that’s you. So that’s a tip for you on all of your social media profiles so people can follow you.

But this is something really juicy. Your biography. Look how much you can put in here. (up to 1000 characters). And the one thing that I want to emphasize a good headshot and include your website URL. I’ve got two companies,
https://bookmarketingmentor.com and https://bookmarketingsociety.com.

You might also want to include how to reach you on social media. And you could, you could put those links in there as well. And I think I’m going to be updating mine a bit later today.

Look at how beautiful this page is. You can include video, you can link to your blog and every time you post it’ll show up, you can add other photographs.
So these are, these are additional headshots of me, but you could put shots of you doing something, maybe an event that relates to your book.


And when you are doing an event, you want to post it on your page. Now, these books around anthologies.

This is what it looks like when you start your Author Central journey, and it’ll ask you a bunch of questions and you can learn about it.


And it’ll tell you what you need to know. And once you have your Author Central profile up there, you can look at all your books.


You can look at your sales ranking and customer reviews, pretty sweet, pretty easy to get to. And that’s author.amazon.com/home. It’s your Author Central location.

But back to how do you claim a book when you’re not the primary author?
I have a special video for you showing you how to add books as a contributor to a publication.

How to Add a Book to Your Amazon Author Central Page

https://youtu.be/6HUhuYo3DRo

This video will talk to you or we’ll take you step-by-step through the process. And it was pretty easy. And all the books got added within a few hours. Sometimes it can take longer depending on what’s going on at Amazon.

So this is day two of the 30 day challenge.
You can find me at facebook.com/bookmarketingmentor, and post a link to your social media post, unless you’re doing Facebook. And then of course you can just share it to this page and you can find me at bookmarketingmentor.com.

I help authors get more bang for their book.

Come back tomorrow for day three of the challenge, and I’ll be talking about how you can make the back of your book one of your best sales tools.

Judy Baker, bookmarketingmentor.com

Links to places mentioned in this video:

Star Shots Photography

https://starshotsphotography.com/

How to Add a Book to Your Amazon Author Central Page

https://youtu.be/6HUhuYo3DRo

Author Central

KDP Marketing Resources

https://kdp.amazon.com/marketing/manager

Amazon Author Central

https://author.amazon.com/home

Author Page

https://author.amazon.com/help/G4C8HLZYK4ZHKNR2

My Author Central Profile

https://www.amazon.com/author/judy-m-baker

Where to find Book Marketing Mentor

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCih0o87hETXblMiVty6uIzw

https://www.facebook.com/bookmarketingmentor
https://bookmarketingmentor.com