Preserve the special moments of Christmas 2008

After the wild rush to the malls over the weekend, everyone’s back at work. For many, the shopping continues on high-speed Internet office computers. This online shopping frenzy is being called Cyber Monday.

Cyber Monday – it’s the start of the holiday shopping season online, and a great day for bargains; but only if you know how to find them. Here are several tips that should help:

Track the Deals

Use CyberMonday.com and dealio.com to stay on top of all of the Cyber Monday deals across the web, including information about free shipping offers and coupons.

Enjoy digital photos and videos on iPhone, iPod and PSP by free slideshow software provided by wondershare this Christmas , download and have a try.

Free Software List:

iPhone 3G Slideshow Maker
Get this free photo slideshow maker to make some holiday movies for your new iPhone 3G.

iPod Slideshow Maker
Make something new for your iPod. It’s not only a mp3 player, but a home movie theatre on the go.

PSP Slideshow Maker
Like the iPod, PSP could also be a home movie theatre for playback your home-made movies.

See Also: Save Up to $80 on Holiday Story Making bundles.

It’s Black Friday and Cyber Monday time! Come and enjoy slideshow software discount provided by Wondershare on Ourpix.com.Wondershare photo slideshow software helps to explorer your holiday fun and save money by making Christmas gift projects at home,such as DIY Christmas Greeting Ecard, make family photo slideshow story,create Gift DVDs.

Link to Special Offers Page(Save Up to $80 on Holiday Story Making Bundles)

Link to Holiday Photo&Video solutions

Just have pictures but want to broadcast yourself on YouTube? Sure you can do that by making photo slideshow story movie. This guide helps you to turn your pictures to slideshow with music and share on YouTube step by step and no complicated computer skills needed.

What you need:
1. Digital photos
2. Photo Story Platinum
3. YouTube ID (Free to register)
4. Favorite music (Optional, as background music for movie)

Step 1. Photoset :

Browse photos and simply drag & drop your favorites to the Story Board and Click “Add Audio” to add background music, also you can add sounds or your own record.

Step 2. Styles :

Preview animated styles first and then double click or drag & drop your selected styles to the Story Board. With 200+ build-in animated movie styles, you can make your photo movie to impress everyone. Also, various theme styles for different occasions such as wedding, kids and movie can meet your special demands.Here I “Add Random Styles” for all slides.

Step 3. Decoration:

To make your photo movie slideshow more funny and lively, adding some adorable elements is absolutely necessary. Here you can add your customized text caption with different text effects, stunning scene effect, animated clipart and sound in flexible timeline.

Gorgeous Intro/Credit animation effects can give people profound first impression. Click ”Intro/Credit” to add it. This software offers different excellent Intro/Credit effects to choose from, just preview and pick your favorite. You can also add your movie information, such as title, director, cast, etc, and set the text effects like movie style.

Step 4. Create :

After you preview the whole photo slideshow and feel satisfied with the effect, select “Create” tab and click “Create MP4″. Also video format like “AVI”, “WMV” or “MPEG-2″ are supported on YouTube. <!–[if !supportLineBreakNewLine]–>

Tips: YouTube Upload Tips (Videos saved with the following settings convert the best):

Video Format: MPEG4-4 Movie
Resolution: 320×240
Video Frame Rate: 30fps
Sample Rate: 44100

Step 5. Upload video to YouTube

After you creating the MP4 file, login your YouTube ID, choose “Account” and click “Upload” button, and then select “Upload a video”, write down your video title and description. It’s better to enter tag for easily searched by others.

Step 6. Finish

Now your YouTube video is ready to share with the world! Show your creativity and happiness right now. Here I share my Tibet travel photo slideshow on YouTube. Comments welcome.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Fo92nb72m8

Download Photo Story Platinum and have a try!

Video Formats: Transferring from DVD to YouTube
DVD files (such as .VOB, .IFO and .BUP files) can’t be uploaded to YouTube. These are not actual video files but files used as part of the DVD container format. Our recommended file format is MPEG4 (Divx, Xvid, or SVQ3 rather than h.264) at 640×480 resolution with MP3 audio (64k mono).
You can learn more about uploading videos here.

Before uploading a video, you may want to go through our Terms of Use and Copyright FAQ. This may give you a better understanding of the type of videos you can upload.

YouTube accepts a wide range of video file formats such as .WMV, .AVI, .MOV, and .MPG transferred from most digital cameras, camcorders, and cell phones.

If you don’t think your current video file format is recognized by YouTube, you may get the best results from converting your file to MPEG4 video with MP3 audio.

All you need to do is continue uploading the highest quality video you have available. The quality of the uploaded video combined with individual viewers’ bandwidth will determine if the video is displayed at “Higher Quality.”

Not satisfied with that answer? Still need specific information? YouTube accepts a wide range of video file formats such as .WMV, .AVI, .MOV, and .MPG. Here are a few things that may work well for you:

MPEG4 (Divx, Xvid) format
MP3 audio
Video resolution: 480×360 or higher
Frame Rate: 24fps or higher

What video file formats can I upload? youtube accepts video files from most digital cameras, camcorders, and cell phones in the .WMV, .AVI, .MOV, and .MPG file formats.

We’ve found that files converted from .wmv to one of the other formats our webpage accepts generally have a lower playback quality than other file formats. If you have your source video in a format other than a .wmv file, I’d recommend encoding directly to MPEG4 (DivX, Xvid, SQV3) at 320×240, with 64k Mono MP3 Audio. If you have a source .wmv in high bitrate and larger resolution I’d recommend converting to MPEG4 at full resolution and then resizing to 320×240 using a high quality resizing algorithm - this can help reduce the number of artifacts you end up with.
Editing and Exporting Videos: Transferring from camera to computer
If you already have a digital camcorder (one that captures in Digital8, MiniDV, HDV, or any of the DVD formats), then you’re ready to start shooting your masterpiece. Your camcorder will need some kind of direct connection to your computer, either to the USB or FireWire ports or by inserting the DVD you’ve recorded. Once you’ve downloaded the video from the camera, you can upload it to YouTube or bring it into an editing program to play with it some more.
If you have an analog camcorder (one that uses VHS, VHS-C, SVHS-C, 8mm, or Hi8 tape), you can still get your videos onto YouTube. It will require an extra step and some additional equipment, though, since these camcorders are not usually equipped with computer connections. You’ll need to digitize the video with a converter box, which will convert the analog signal from the camcorder to a digital signal that the computer can understand. After the video has been digitized, you can manipulate it further or upload it.

You don’t need to burn a specially formatted disc but just a regular data DVD full of digital photos if you own a DVD player with built-in slide-show features for viewing JPEG images. Lots of new type DVD players have the features such as Sony DVP-NS57P, Pioneer DV-490V-S, LG DN788, Panasonic DVD-S53S/K, Philips DVP5982 and etc. Different types of players with different play menu, photo quantity limitation and so on. So, DVDs display in this style via my Sony player but that on my friend’s Panasonic.

If your DVD player doesn’t have such features, creating DVD photo slide shows via apps will be help and it is a much more stunning and professional way for storage and share. Bellows are kinds of apps.

1. Free apps that can create photo slideshows.

Google’s Picasa, is a free software download from Google. Picasa can make photo slideshows with simple clicks and copy files to DVD media using both the “Backup” and “Gift CD” features, but DVDs create by Picasa can not be played on all types of DVD players.

Windows Movie Maker , included free in XP and Vista, helps to create AVI or WMA slideshows. Although it doesn’t natively burn DVDs playable by many DVD players, Windows Movie Maker has many powerful features (say exquisite effects) to magnetize users and adding DVD writing capabilities to Windows Movie Maker with inexpensive applications will figure it out.

2. Commercial apps wholly make for creating DVD slide shows.

Nero PhotoShow Deluxe 5 ($39.99) is famous and powerful software which includes a massive amount of slide-show-authoring options for photo DVDs. Nero has a 15-day trial for PhotoShow Deluxe, while the free PhotoDVD trial lets you create slide shows with up to 100 images. As a sub-product from Nero, it has highly stability on its writing capability.

DVD Slideshow Builder 4 ($49.95), another professional and popular app that can create DVD photo slideshows with photos, video clips and music in high-resolution HD DVD video format and burn directly. It provides a free trial version with Watermark on output, 30-day trial limitation. What it attract me is its plenty 2D/3D transitions and Ken-Burns effects.