What a slideshow maker does well
It is quick, it is usually free, and it gives you a real thing at the end: your photographs, one after another, with music. For a weekend away photographed by one person, that is often exactly enough, and there is no shame in it. A holiday slideshow with the right track over it has made plenty of rooms go quiet.
The three jobs it hands back to you
Collecting, ordering and choosing. The tool starts once the photographs are on your computer, which means you have already chased them out of everyone else's phones. It plays them in the order you arranged, which means you have already worked out which day was which. And it shows everything you gave it, which means you have already thrown out the blurry ones and the eleven of the same sunset. Those three jobs are the evening you were trying to avoid.
Photos and video in the same slideshow
Most of a modern holiday is video, and it is the half a slideshow struggles with. The clip of the wind at the top of the hill is thirty seconds long and the good part is four seconds of it. A slideshow tool that takes video tends to play the lot. A film trims it to the four seconds and puts them where they happened.
Music, pacing and the length problem
A slideshow's length is a consequence: this many photographs at this many seconds each. A film's length is a decision you make before it is built, and the edit works to it — choosing, pacing and cutting so the trip fits the time. That is also what lets the cuts land on the beat of the music rather than drifting away from it.
When a slideshow is enough
One phone, a short trip, an evening free and photographs you already like. Make the slideshow. It will be good and it will cost nothing but the evening.
When you want a film instead
Several people's phones, a trip long enough that the order matters, video worth keeping, or simply no wish to spend the evening. That is the gap Videmory sits in: one link collects everyone's originals, the dates put the trip in order, and the edit is made for you. You watch the whole film before you decide to buy it.
What Videmory does with it
One person starts the trip and shares a private link. Everybody who was there adds their own photos and video from their own phone — no account, nothing to install. Videmory reads the date and time your camera wrote into each file, puts the whole trip in the order it happened, trims the clips, and edits it to a soundtrack you choose. You watch the finished film before you decide to buy it.
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Your questions, answered
Can I make a travel slideshow from other people’s photos as well as mine?
With a slideshow tool, only once you have got their photos onto your own device, and that collecting is most of the work. Videmory gathers them for you: one private link, and everybody adds their own originals from their own phone before anything is made.
Does a slideshow keep the photos in the order they were taken?
Only in the order you put them. Most slideshow tools take the files in the order you drag them in, or the order they happen to sort on your computer, and neither is the order of the holiday. Videmory reads the date and time your camera wrote into each file and builds the film from that.
Can a travel slideshow include video clips?
Some tools allow it and some do not, and the ones that do often play a clip at whatever length it was filmed. A Videmory film trims each clip to the part worth watching and cuts it into the trip where it belongs, so the video is part of the story rather than an interruption to it.
How long should a holiday slideshow be?
Three to five minutes for most trips — long enough to be the holiday, short enough to hold a room. That is true of a film too. The difference is that a slideshow's length is however many photos you dragged in, and a film's is a choice you make first.
Is Videmory a slideshow maker?
People find it by searching for one, and it does the job a slideshow maker is bought for. It makes something more complete, though: real video as well as stills, the trip in the order it happened, everyone's photographs rather than one phone's, and a finished film rather than a timeline to work on. You watch all of it before paying.