Create a slide show movie

If you are using Windows Vista, Microsoft Expression Media offers you two ways to create a movie from your slide show. You can use either the Save Slide Show as Movie feature or the Export Slide Show to Move Maker feature. For information on using the latter feature, see Create a movie using Windows Movie Maker (Windows Vista only).

If you are using Windows XP, and have QuickTime installed, you can use the Save Slide Show as Movie feature.

After you install QuickTime and run the Save Slide Show as Movie command, Expression Media assembles your images into a movie, using the Slide Show settings that you specified in the Slide Show options or in the Slide Show controller, such as transition type and image duration.

To create a Slide Show movie

1. Set your Slide Show options. For more information, see Slide Show overview.

2. On the Make menu, click Save Side Show as Movie.

3. Set any one of the following options according to their descriptions:

   • For Dimensions, type the width and height that you want the final movie to be or select a preset dimension from the dimension list .

   • For Output Quality, select a quality setting from the list.

   • Click Include chapter track if you want QuickTime to displays the file name of each Slide Show file in a menu underneath the movie.

   • For the QuickTime Player options, select any one of the playback behaviors that you want for the QuickTime player. If you select Full Screen Mode, you can also select the size of the playback screen from the list underneath the option.

   • Select Launch player when done to immediately see your movie in the QuickTime player after Expression Media creates it.

4. Click Save to specify a location for the finished movie.

5. Click Save to create the movie.

See also

Concepts

Create a movie using Windows Movie Maker (Windows Vista only)