Make Christmas Video

Our long-awaited Christmas is around the corner. Did you prepare the Christmas presents to send to your friends afar? If you didn’t, just make full use of your photos and personal home made video to make a Christmas card online as Xmas gifts.

To make Christmas video as Xmas gift is an innovative way to send wishes to your relatives in the distance, to whom it’s very precious and priceless. And even the Archbishop of York, Dr John Sentamu granted a reward of £ 3,000 to encourage young people to make a short Christmas video to express their perspective of the true essence of the Xmas.

Here I would like to show you how to make Christmas video card with Screen Recording Suite and PowerPoint

Part 1: preparation for making Christmas video card.

• 1. Prepare some Christmas related PowerPoint template.

Christmas related template that provided appropriate background, which contributes to creating Xmas atmospheres and strengthen the theme.

• 2. Get the photos ready.

No matter what photos you want to send to your kinsfolk, store all of them to a certain file on computer.

• 3. Download some Christmas songs.

Adding some Xmas audio as the PPT background music to make the slide more vivid.

• 4. Save your personal video on computer.

If you want to send your personal video recorded by camera to your family, transfer the video from your camera to computer.

Part 2: make Christmas video

1. Launch the PPT, and select the Christmas related PowerPoint template for your slide.

2. Add photos to your Xmas slideshow.
Click “Insert” button→pictures→select your photo from the profile. You can set the shape and style of the photos accordingly. Add your photos one by one in this way.

3. Add audio to Xmas PPT.
Click “Insert” tab→Audio→select your prepared Xmas songs.

4. Insert video to Xmas slide.
The same way as adding audio, you can complete it by clicking “Insert”→ “Video” →choose your home made video.

After the four steps, you can add some effect to make your Xmas PPT more vivid, animations for instance. PPT has large numbers of animations; you can select one of them to your PPT content to make the PPT more interesting and fascinating.

5. Transfer your Xmas PPT to video.
This step is the key process of making Xmas video; you should choose the professional program like Screen Recording Suite.

Everything on computer screen can be captured by Screen Recording Suite as standard video file. You can use this program to help you record PPT as video to make video for Christmas.

It’s easy to use. You just need to launch the program first, play the PPT on your computer, and it will help you capture the slideshows to video file.

Note: Download and install screen video recorder – Screen Recording Suite

Part 3: Deliver your Xmas video.

You can e-mail the Christmas video to your family and friends. If you want other people to share your video, you can also upload to video sharing websites. The program can convert video format, so you needn’t to worry about the incompatibility problem of your video and other video websites.

If you want to make your Xmas gift special, just make you own 2011 Christmas video and send to your relatives. And they must be very happy to receive your home made Xmas video. Action now, Christmas is coming!

Written by: Alice Wang on December 13, 2011