Creating customized music for your story
Photo Story includes prerecorded music from several different styles and genres that you can customize for your story. You can add music both from your computer and the Photo Story prerecorded music to your stories. Only one piece of music can play for a selected picture or anchor image.
For more information about adding music from your computer to your story, see Adding music from your computer to your story.
To add Photo Story prerecorded music to your story
- On the Add background music page, click a picture, and then click Create Music.
- In the Create Music dialog box, in the Genre list, click a genre.
- In the Style list, click a style.
- In the Bands box, click a band.
- In Moods list, click a mood.
- In the Tempo box, move the slider to adjust the tempo.
- In the Intensity box, click one of the following options:
- Click Play to hear how the Photo Story prerecorded music sounds.
- Repeat steps 1 through 8 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
- You can add a silent space between pieces of music in your story by selecting Silence in the Genre list in the Create Music dialog box.
- Photo Story automatically adjusts the amount of time a piece of music will play with your story. By default, a piece of music will play for the duration of the music or for the duration of the music strip segment, whichever is shorter.
- 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.
- 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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