Adding music from your computer to your story
You can add multiple songs from your computer or My Music folder to your story. You can add as many songs as there are pictures in your story and Photo Story plays each song for as long as the picture is displayed in your story. Only one piece of music can play for a selected picture or anchor image.
You can add songs from your computer and the Photo Story prerecorded music to your story. For more information about adding the Photo Story prerecorded music to your story, see Creating customized music for your story.
To add music from your computer to your story
- On the Add background music page, click a picture.
- Click Select Music.
- In the Open dialog box, locate the music you want to add, and then click Open. The music file can be in Windows Media Audio (WMA), MP3, or WAV format.
- Repeat steps 2 and 3 until you have selected all the music that you want to play with your story.
- Click Preview to play your story.
Your entire story plays, starting at the selected picture, complete with the narration, title pages, and any background music you added.
- If you need to adjust the volume of a piece of background music in your story, select the anchor image, and then move the Volume slider on the Add background music page.
For example, if you narrated your pictures, you may want to move the slider toward Low to decrease the music volume so your voice can be heard clearly over the background music.
- Click Next.
If you want to return to the previous page, click Back.
Notes
- Photo Story automatically adjusts the amount of time a piece of music will play with your story. A piece of music is played until it ends, or it is played until either an anchor image that specifies a new piece of music be played is encountered or the story ends.
- You can also change the music in your story by right-clicking a picture on the film strip on the Add background music page, pointing to Music, and then clicking Select, Create, or Delete.
- Copy protected music cannot be added to a photo story.
- When you preview your story, the preview resolution is 320 x 240 pixels. Your final video story may have a different resolution, depending on the activity you select on the Save your story page.
- You can save a project for your story at any time while working on the story by clicking the Save Project button. In the Save As dialog box, type a name for the project. You must save a project for your story to be able to edit it later. Projects created by using Photo Story 3 for Windows must use a .wp3 file name extension. Otherwise, Photo Story will not be able to open the file. By default, the project for your story is saved in your My Videos folder.
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