in this video i show you how to create slideshows in Shotcut
hi everyone my name is Joe and welcome to Ubitronics on this channel i show you how
to use open source software today we're looking at slideshows in Shotcut so the first thing i'm going
to do is create a new project called slideshow you can obviously call yours what you want
and then i'm going to get my playlist item here i did that by clicking playlist
and then going to navigate in a file explorer to where
all of my images are i'm going to select them all and put them in to the playlist
now you may have noticed that this car image is a very different shape and size to my other images
i've done that purposely so we can see some of the transitions and the different types and how
we handle that within a slideshow in case you have different sized files so let's come back
into shortcut and the first thing we need to do is the playlist now contains all of our images
we need to order these images in the order that we want to see them
the way they will display when the video is created so let's say i wanted chess to come first
i'll just click and drag and elephant to come third car to come second bike to go to the fourth
order them about as much as you want and in any order but this has to be the order that you want
them to display in when the video is created once you've done that select the first one hold shift
on the keyboard and then click onto the last one this will select all of your items in the playlist
now come down to these three lines down here on the playlist pane
and then select add selected to slideshow this is going to pop up a new little box
and by default the preview pane will start playing and the clip duration is 10 seconds
we can shorten or lengthen that if we wanted to let me put it down to about six seconds
and you've got the crop ratio which this is how it handles images which are the wrong size
right now it's on crop center which means if i just zoom back a little bit there
when it goes to the new image this picture here is cut off a lot of the actual image
so you may want that to be handled differently you can select pad black if you want to go
back to it now you see the whole image but you've got black on the sides or crop and pan
and as you can see that crops to the full size of the image and then pans across the full image
then we've got pad blur
which blurs the sides instead of having black so you can choose what you want there
whatever you do to this it will affect all of your videos if they're all different sizes etc
so once you're happy with that you can go down to the zoom effect as you can see this zooms in
very slowly on each of the images that's this effect here you can increase that or stop it
completely the transition is two seconds that's the transition between the slides so when it blurs
or fades at the moment and then this is how you change the type of transition you could select
any of these and you can play around with them as you like or you can select random which will
just select random transitions between each one i personally like dissolve so i'm going to leave
miners dissolve and then you can click ok and what that's going to do is push all of that work into
the timeline within a few seconds for you so you haven't had to do each one manually it's all just
been done automatically in quick succession for you now you can preview it in the preview pane so
if you go back to the start and press play on the preview you can now see the small fade in or the
zoom in and then however we've managed the images that are the wrong size and also the transitions
which for me i set as fade for each one are two seconds long if for any reason you didn't like
that you can push ctrl z on the keyboard make sure you've got your things selected and then
go through the same process again and you can keep on doing that until you've got the correct
um slideshow that you want to see i'm going to imagine this is correct and this is the one that
i want to have but actually i want some audio in there as well so if i right click track operations
add audio track this gives me a new track just underneath here and now i can go to my folder
i can add my sound in i generally put everything in the playlist first so i
can get back to it quite quite easily and then i come down here and i can push it into
the audio track by selecting and dragging now this is obviously way too long at the
moment so if you click onto the zoom tool here that will mean that the longest part of your
video is now on the screen you can shorten that and if i click that again it will zoom
straight back in now when i play the video it will have the sound appended to it
okay so i'm not going to go through the whole thing there because you've already seen it a
few times but that's demonstrated how to create a slideshow in Shotcut the final thing that
you may need to do is to export the file if you click onto export click onto export file
then navigate to the place you want to save it give it the name you want make sure it's
an mp4 file that's general use if you know you want to be something else then you can select
it in the presets before you get to this stage otherwise click save and then you've got your jobs
up here when that gets to 100 you'll be able to view your video in a standard video player
and i'm not focusing on the export settings here but if you have any problems then i do have
another video on exporting files and i'll link that in the description below for you
once that's done we can go back to our project and then play our new slideshow
okay so i hope that's been helpful please consider liking and subscribing
and i'll see you in the next video
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