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Thumbing through photo albums is no longer fun and existing. There are now tons of more thrilling ways to showcase your photo archive. And one of them is a video collage. Just imagine this – your pictures flying around some beautiful background, assembling into refined grids, or jumbled piles – all of this to some lovely tune.
Such animated collages can be not only the way to share your pictures from the latest vacation but also a unique DIY gift, a video centerpiece for some family occasion. Besides, creating such video collages can also be a bonding and exceedingly fun activity for all family members.
You might be wondering how to make a video collage with no prior experience. Well, worry not, for we are going to tell you about two easy ways to create a video of animated collages. We’ll be looking at a way to make this kind of video right on your smartphone and on your PC. Let’s dive in.
Create a Video Collage with a Mobile App
If you prefer to shoot pictures with your phone, that means that most of your photo archive is either in your phone memory or in some cloud storage. If so, that you will like the idea of making a video collage right on the go, using your phone.
There are countless mobile apps for that, but we’ll be looking at Video Collage Maker, a popular collage making app. This is how you can create a spectacular video with it.
Once you install this app on your phone, open it. Tap Gallery to access your pictures. Tick the images you want to feature in your video collage. Then, rotate, resize, and move the photos around. You can add borders, filters, and cliparts to your pics to make them look fancier. If you are not satisfied with the default layout, you can choose another one or go with a premade template. Browse through Style options to find the animation pattern you like. Spice up your video collage with a music track of your own choice. Once you’re done, save your video collage on your phone or share it right away.
Make a Video Collage on Your PC
If the majority of your images reside in the hard drive of your PC, it would be a lot easier for you to create an animated video with desktop software. We suggest using SmartSHOW 3D, a user-friendly video collage maker. Let’s see how to create a stunning video with this software.
Once you run SmartSHOW 3D, you’ll need to decide whether you are going to create a project from scratch or to use one of the built-in templates. If you go with the second option, you’ll get access to dozens of predesigned style packs. There are templates for all occasions, from weddings to vacations, as well as an abundance of multi-purpose options with 3D collage animations. Once you pick the style pack you like, just fill it with your pictures, pick a soundtrack and your video collage will be ready in under five minutes.
If you decide to create a unique project, SmartSHOW 3D has some impressive tools to offer. For one, the software is packed with 400+ effects that include stunning animations, eye-catching transitions, cool 3D collages, and graceful nature effects. So to create a video collage, just drag and drop your images and videos to the project and apply various effects to them.
What’s more, this video collage maker comes with an intuitive module for custom slide animation. Here you can animate your images the way you want – turn them into animated collages, apply 3D camera effects to them, and much more. Once you are done with the animation, spice up your video collage with a tune from either your one library or from a 2000 collection offered by the software. Finally, save your video for TV, tablet, YouTube, or Facebook – depending on the way you are going to share it. And you’re done!
See – creating a thrilling video collage to showcase your pictures, is such an easy thing that even kids would love. So take the photo archive that you never had the chance to share and turn your still images into a visually engaging video collage.
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