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Question

Create short video from photos and videos

Jun 24, 2016 10:01AM PDT

Hello, new to the video editing game. Just got back from my honeymoon. I bought a GoPro Session4 caught video and some photos with it, also have a samsung point and shoot camera that i took a bunch of photos with. My wife and I did a video diary for every day of our trip. I wanted to create mini episodes with the photos and videos from that day. With the idea that they would be short and sweet as not to bore anyone. With the not boring anyone in mind i don't want to just create a slide show of the photos and videos.

My question is what video editing software would help me to best achieve this? I have the gopro studio which is great for the videos, but the photos just become a slide show and is very time consuming to put in. Maybe theres a template that i can add photos in one shot. Go to the 1:00 mark of this video for an example.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ri3EBDvbYXA
I figured i can make a video like that with the photos and add it to the GoPro Studio afterward.

While im at it is there a way i can extract the audio from my video diary to overlap with the photos and videos?

Thanks, sorry for the long post.

p.s. hoping to keep the 1080p quality and as im a newbie not looking for a crazy expensive program, free is always nice.

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I have to write no.
Jun 24, 2016 10:16AM PDT

Such work is just that, work. You may want to look at making a video of the photos with say IRFANVIEW then adding that to your video. But I get the feeling you don't want to.

My trick with IRFANVIEW won't give that Polaroid fade in effect but there are video editors that do that.

To do this in one go is not automatic today.

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Thanks,
Jun 24, 2016 10:25AM PDT

I hope I didn't give off the impression that I didn't want to do the "work". I just wanted to know how to get the effect similar to the video i posted. And what program actually does it. If you're answer is that there are no user friendly/beginner editing software that can achieve this effect then I'll just do the GoPro studio. When I said the studio was time consuming for photos its becuase i have to create a seperate folder for every individual photo, then load it into the program, if not the GP Studio thinks the photos in one folder are time lapse and puts them all together, not separate.

I'll check out the IRFANVIEW thanks.

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Sorry but I read it differently. So you want falling photos
Jun 24, 2016 11:27AM PDT
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Thats it
Jun 24, 2016 11:37AM PDT

thanks, that's what i was looking for "falling photo" I'm better at math than English. I'm sure there are programs that can do other effects like spiral stacking and what not. This is a start, thanks again.