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Burn iPhone videos to DVD on Mac

It’s really important for iPhone fans to move their precious photos and videos which take record of their memories to computer, then to burn them onto DVD or save to U-disk or upload to Internet.

Here I want to show how to transfer iPhone videos to computer using only wifi, then burn them on to DVDs for saving. Here I will use Wireless Transfer app for iPhone and Slideshow DVD Creator for Mac.

Wireless Transfer app is a transfer tool which has Windows/ Mac/ iOS/ Android version, so you can use the app to transfer photos/ videos between computer, iOS devices and Android devices freely. Here we will use it to send videos from iPhone to Mac.

Slideshow DVD Creator is a slideshow application which can create photos/ music/ videos to professional-looking slideshow quite simply, then burn it onto DVD with the built-in DVD burner. Of course, it also supports to encode the slideshows to MP4 or Mov video format, so you can also enjoy the slideshow video on portable devices or upload them to Youtube/ Facebook etc.

Let’s see how to do it:

1. Download Wireless Transfer app to iPhone from App Store. Tap the button to launch it .

Make sure that the iPhone and Mac are connected to the same wifi network already.

2. Download the Mac version of wireless transfer app from http://www.wirelesstransferapp.com . After launching it, click the box next to “Device” to connect the Mac with iPhone.

3. Then select the right album, and click the “Video” tab to show all the videos in the album, then click to batch download them.

We can also specify the folder where the videos will be downloaded to.

Notice:

If you don’t want to install application on your Mac, you can also use browser to transfer videos between Mac and iPhone. Input the address you get from iPhone into browser of Mac, then select album and choose videos to download. Both ways are simple and convenient.

4. Next download Slideshow DVD Creator to Mac and launch it.

5. Click the “Videos” tab, then drag the videos you just downloaded to the bottom panel directly to add them.

6. There are DVD menu, title, theme, pan & zoom effect, duration you can set to the videos, but here we just burn them into DVD directly. So click “Burn DVD ” to burn them.

Add video clips for your slideshow

When search slideshow online, I found that a lot of people are asking “how to add video clips to slideshow”. Adding video clips to slideshow can help make the slideshow more vivid, and show the memorable moment with others.

We have showed many times about how to make slideshows with photos and music using Slideshow DVD Creator, which has featured many fabulous functions can help create professional-looking slideshows within minutes even by one who has little background knowledge of slideshow.

Now Slideshow DVD Creator has a new feature which supports adding videos clips into slideshow the same as photos and music.

Let’s see how to create a slideshow using video clips:

1. Download Slideshow DVD Creator to your Mac computer and launch it. Slideshow DVD Creator is a Mac application, and if you also want to create do the same thing in Windows, there we have DVD Photo Slideshow.

2. In the far left panel, there we have “Images” “Video” and “Music” buttons. Click the button, then we can select photos, music or videos from folders which appear in the left.

Of course, there is a simpler way to add videos or others into application. We can drag & drop the video files directly into the bottom panel to add them. Of course, not all video files can be added, you can only add mp4, mov and other formats which are supported by Apple.

Videos, music and photos can be added into the same project.

Next, drag them directly in the panel to change order.

3. To change order of the music files, click the Play icon in the bottom, then change order in the popping-up dialogue.

4. The duration of photos, the background music, the transition effects can also be set.

Click “Options” button, then you can set time in “Slideshow settings”. We can also make slideshow and music synchronized in the “Music” tab.

Now, you can click the “Play” button to view the slideshow to see if it meets your need.

Of course, there are more good features you can use to make the slideshow more beautiful. The trial version is free to download, and the only difference between the free trial version and the paid full version is the 36 photos limitation, so you can have a full taste of the application before purchase.

5. Next you can choose to burn the slideshow into DVD by clicking the “Burn DVD” button.

Very simple. Have a try by yourself.

How to use iPad photos and videos to make DVD slideshow

We all like to use iPhone/ iPad camera to keep the important moment of our daily life. How about using those photos and videos to make a vivid photo video slideshow, and burn them to DVD?

To do this, first we have to move photos and video from iPad to computer, then use some slideshow software to make them into stunning slideshow and burn them into DVD.

Here I want to show a very simple way to do the job. We need “Wireless Transfer App” and “Slideshow DVD Creator“.

Wireless Transfer App can help you transfer photos and video between iPhone/ iPad/ Windows/ Mac only using Wifi; Slideshow DVD Creator can help you make slideshow using photos, music and videos within minutes, and burn the slideshow into DVD with the built-in DVD burner.

1. Send iPad photos and videos to computer

Connect the iPad and computer to the same Wifi network, then download Wireless Transfer app to iPad. Tap on the icon to launch the app and get the address from the bottom of the interface.

Type the address into web browser of computer (Safari, Chrome etc), and get the transfer page.

Select the album and go to the photos/ videos list, there you can download the photos and videos to computer.

Now we have got the photos and videos on computer, next we can make them into slideshow.

2. Make photo video slideshow and burn into DVD

Download Slideshow DVD Creator to Mac, and install it. If have any difficulty, follow the instruction to install it : Install application on Mac.

Launch the application, we can drag & drop the photos and videos directly to the bottom panel of the application to add them. Or we can use the “Images” “Video” “Music” tab to select and add them.

After that, drag the videos or photos thumbnail to change the order. Music can also be added into slideshow as background music.

There are many other features, such as transition effect, Pan & Zoom effect, add text to photos, DVD title, DVD menu, theme and so on. The software can be downloaded for free, everyone interested can download to have a try.

Click the “Play” button to preview the slideshow. Before burn DVD, we can make settings about DVD video aspect and TV system:

Finally insert DVD disc into Mac, and click “Burn DVD” button to start.

How to make a Christmas DVD photo slideshow

Next is about how to make a DVD photo slideshow for your Christmas. Whether you want to make your Christmas party more fun, or keep memory about your Christmas, it is good to make Christmas photos and fabulous music into slideshow, and make it into DVD for keeping.

Although we have Christmas every year, but each one is different. Photos can keep record of growth experience and the happy hours. And it’s really simple to make your own Christmas DVD photo slideshow.

Here we will use Slideshow DVD Mac.

You can download the software for free from : http://www.slideshowdvdcreator.com . After you launch the software on your Mac, click the “Images” button to add your Christmas photos.

Drag & drop the photos into the software directly to add them. After that, you can drag them to change order.

And Slideshow DVD Creator has prepared many transition effects for you. You can select to determine how your photos will display.

Just click the button between photos, the transition effect list will appear. You can set different effect for each photo, or one for all photos.

Also there are display time for each photo and transition effect. You can also make change of them.

Next, you can add music to slideshow by clicking the “Music” button next to “Images”.

For best Christmas songs, please go to: Best 20 Christmas songs.

You can add more than one music for one slideshow.

Click the “Theme” button to choose theme for your slideshow.

You can also insert blank image, sync slideshow & music, set Pan & Zoom effect for your photo etc for your slideshow. Here we won’t explain in detail. You can download the free software to have a try by yourself.

If you are done with the slideshow, click the “Play” button to have a preview of the slideshow.

Next set “DVD Menu” for your Christmas photo slideshow. Here is a “NO MENU” option for you, if you don’t want to use any menu theme.

And you can even set DVD background music by the “Select Music…” button.

Finally insert a DVD disc into your Mac, and click “Burn DVD” button to burn it. Or you can flower step below to burn your DVD.

Now your Christmas DVD photo slideshow is ready. Play it through DVD player or others.

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How to make a slideshow for your Halloween party

Halloween is coming soon. How about make a spooky frightening slideshow for your Halloween party, so you can have more fun with your friends.

If you have no slideshow knowledge background, there is no need to worry about. All you have to do is collect the photos you want to use, and select some halloween music which you want to add as background music.

For good Halloween songs, you can look at : Best songs for your Halloween slideshow.

After you have collected the photos and music, next with Slideshow DVD Creator you can make a eye-catching slideshow within minutes.

First, download the slideshow dvd creator from the website, and install it to your computer. After you launch the software, you can add the photos and music into in by the “Images” and “Music” button appears in the left panel.

Of course, you can set the order of the photos by dragging them directly. Click the music name appears below the list of the photo, you can select to change order, or delete the music.

Slideshow DVD Creator doesn’t have a music trimming function, but you can set time for each photo and transition effect to make the slideshow and music synchronized. Or you can click “Option” – “Music” – “Sync music & slideshow” to do the same job.

Slideshow dvd creator has prepared many transition effects for you. You can set different effects for different photo, or apply one effect to all the photos. The transition effect determines how your photos will be displayed.

Here are more functions you can make use of. Such as set theme for your slideshow, add text onto photos, insert blank image into the slideshow, set Pan & Zoom effect and so on.

After all things done, you can select to export the slideshow as mp4 or mov video format, or burn the slideshow into DVD, so you can play it on TV through DVD player.

For full user guide of slideshow dvd creator, you can go to : http://slideshowdvdcreator.com/make-slideshow-dvd-on-mac.html

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how to make a slideshow DVD using iDVD

It’s really fun to turn your still photos and music into slideshow DVD, and enjoy it with families or friends. There are many free tools can help you achieve that. Today, I want to show you how to use Apple’ iDVD to make your own slideshow DVD quickly.

But notice, iDVD is not available in Mac OS X 10.7 or higher now. So for Mac OS X 10.7 or higher users, you can use Slideshow DVD Creator instead.

To begin building the slideshow, first click “Media” button in the right bottom corner, then you can see three tabs “Audio / Photos / Movies” appear. Select one, then you can drag & drop the photos, music or movies to add them into the slideshow.

Next, click the “Themes” button next to “Media”, there will appear a list of ready-to-use themes you can use.

And you can also add background pictures by dragging a photo into the theme’s background.

Also you can set DVD title for your slideshow DVD as shown below:

You can have more control over your slideshow using iDVD. In the bottom of the windows, you can set slideshow duration to specify the time each slide plays; Transition helps you set transition effect to govern how one slide turn into another; Slideshow volume helps you control the volume.

Click the “Setting” button, then you can have more control over your slideshow. Find out it by yourself to have more fun.

When you finish the slideshow, click play button to preview it. If satisfied, click the “burn” to make your DVD. After it finished, you can enjoy the DVD on Apple TV, PC or other portable DVD movie players.

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How to make a slideshow using photos from your iPad

Because the high resolution of iPad camera, we all like to use iOS devices to take photos or videos. But sync it back to computers or other iOS devices using iTunes is a big problem. There is one time iTunes erased all of my videos and photos automatically, and I even cann’t restore them. And about slideshow, I’d like to make photos into slideshow to keep them, because slideshow is much more stunning than still photos.

So here I want to show you how to make slideshow using photos from your iPad/ iPhone/ iPod touch. We will use two wonderful toos, which are wireless transfer app and slideshow dvd creator. Wireless transfer app can help you transfer photos and videos between iPad/ iPhone/ iPod/ Windows/ Mac freely using wifi, without iTunes or USB cables. It recently upgraded to the newest version 3.5 which can run on iOS7 perfectly. Slideshow dvd creator can help you create a professional-looking slideshow within minutes.

First, we have to transfer photos from iPad to computer.

1. Download the wireless transfer app from https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/wireless-transfer-app/id543119010?ls=1&mt=8 ;

2.Connect the iPad and your computer to the same wifi route;

3. Run Wireless Transfer App on iPad, and be sure to keep it from sleeping.

4.Input the URL link exactly as it appears on the iPad into the browser (IE, Chrome, Firefox and so on) to go to the transfer page.

5. Select one album then you can download photos one by one or in batch.

Second, we can make photos downloaded into slideshow.

1.Download Slideshow DVD Creator from http://slideshowdvdcreator.com/. The download is free.

2.Click “Images” on the left panel of the soft, then you can select one folder and drag & drop the photos to add them.

3.Directly drag the photos in the list to change the order according to your need.

4.Click the button between photos to add transition effects.

5.Click the time shown on the photos to set play time for each photos and transition effect.

6. There are other things you can also do : add songs as background music; add theme; add text into photos; set Pan & Zoom effect; sync slideshow & music and so on. There are also other functions you can find out by yourself.

7.If you are satisfied with the slideshow you made, you have 2 choices now : a. export it into mov or mp4 video format; b. burn it into DVD.

For more information, you can go to : http://slideshowdvdcreator.com/make-slideshow-dvd-on-mac.html .

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