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How to get still photos from a video

May 8, 2013 6:25 am ⋅
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I want to know if there is a way to get still pictures from a video that I made … Can you tell me how to do it and what program I need?

After recording a video or making a slideshow, you may want to get back still pictures from a video or slideshow. The rear camera of iPad and iPhone enables you to film HD videos easily to record best moments. However, maybe you just want to share some pictures in the video with your friends instead of the whole video. So what is an easy way to get still pictures from a video?

What you need to solve the dilemma is Video to Photo Grabber . With the app, you can easily extract pictures from a video or slideshow. It enables you to save the frames of video to Camera Roll or share pictures via Email, iTunes File Sharing or others. Besides, its built-in photo editor allows you to edit photos before saving images.

Download this powerful app from app store: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/video-to-photo-grabber/id639485093?ls=1&mt=8

System requirements: iPad, iPhone and iPod with iOS 5.0 or later.  Video to Photo Grabber is compatible with iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPhone 4S, iPhone 5, iPod touch (4th generation), iPod touch (5th generation), iPad 2 Wi-Fi, iPad 2 Wi-Fi + 3G, iPad (3rd generation), iPad Wi-Fi + 4G, iPad (4th generation), iPad Wi-Fi + Cellular (4th generation), iPad mini and iPad mini Wi-Fi + Cellular.

Easy steps to grab photos from a video:

Step1. Add a video

Open Video to Photo Grabber, all your videos in iPad / iPhone Photo Library will be listed in the main screen.  Wipe left / right or up / down to browse the videos, then tap the video from which you want to get pictures to add it into the app. Also you can hit the “Camera” to film an instant video to use or hit “Albums” to import a video from specified folder.

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Step2. Select pictures

After selecting the video, the app will begin to parse the video to all frames. Slide left / right or up / down to view the frames, and tap the photo that you want to extract from the video.

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Select photos

Step3. Extract or save a picture

After selecting a picture, you can save the picture to Camera Roll . Before saving the picture, you can tap the “Share” icon in the upper right corner to edit the picture with its built-in photo editor, such as cropping, enhancing, adjusting brightness / contrast, add effects, etc.

Besides saving a picture to Camera Roll, you can email the photos, share via iTunes File-Sharing, print it out, open in with other apps, etc.

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How to create a slideshow with multiple songs

February 28, 2013 6:20 am ⋅
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I am trying to create a slideshow with music in the background and I want to select more than 1 song. How can I select multiple songs?

Photo  Slideshow Director HD enables you to add several songs as background  music. So if there are many pictures , you can use more than songs in the slideshow to match up to the slides time.

Touch music icon, you choose songs from your iPad music library by Artists, Albums or Composers. Touch songs to add them. Then Background Music List under Music Options will show up. Touch Background Music List, you can see all the songs you added in the slideshow.

Then you can play the songs, remove them or arrange song order.

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Photo Slideshow Director HD is a slideshow software for iPad. With it you can easily use your photos from iPad Photo Library and web albums(Flickr, Picasa, Facebook, Dropbox, Instagram and SkyDrive) to create a stand-alone slideshow with music, transitions and kinds of effects. Then you can airplay the slideshow on TV, upload it to YouTube/Facebook/Dropbox/SkyDrive for sharing.

Download Photo Slideshow Director HD from iTunes App Store>>

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Why background music is not with an exported slideshow video

February 27, 2013 3:14 am ⋅
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Sometimes, after creating a slideshow with music using Photo Slideshow Director HD,  you may want to save it to iPad photo library, or wireless transfer it to PC. However, the background music is lost in the exported slideshow. So how can you fix the problem and create a slideshow with music?

It may be OK when previewing the slideshow. While you watch the slideshow saved in iPad Photo Library, the music is not there.

In this case, please check if you have used protected music (m4p ) purchased from iTunes Store, if yes,  you can try to add music files in m4a or mp3 format.  Because m4p file can not be exported due to DRM.

Also you can try to double-press the iPad home button to show all running apps, then close Photo Slideshow Director HD and restart it to export the slideshow again. Before closing the app, please remember to save the project.

If you still have problems, please email to slideshow@socusoft.com.

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How to use iPad to present your photography portfolio as a slideshow

February 2, 2013 9:09 am ⋅
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As a shutterbug, I almost record every special moment with photos. No matter it is a weekend in a park, birthday party, family reunion party, I will take photos to record it. Then I am pleased to share my photography portfolio with friends and family. Since I got a new iPad three month ago, I fell love it it. I can use it to watch movies, play games, especially taking pictures. As we all know, there are so many apps in iTunes App store for iPad, so it is so convenient to have an iPad.

As I said, I am always crazy at photography, taking photos with my camera, cellphone and iPad whenever I want. So I want to take full advantage of my iPad to showcase my photography portfolio to friends.

Actually there are many places I can share my photographs. I can upload photographs to Facebook, Flickr, Picasa, even email photos to friends. But it is not enough to just share the snapshots to others. Everybody can do that. Just post hundreds of pictures to your Facebook.  Especially if you are a business man and want to show your portfolio presentation to clients, you should make your portfolio presentation attractive to clients and wow the clients. So how to wow people and attract people to view your pictures?

One of friends married last week and she asked me to create a wedding slideshow to present her wedding photos to guests on wedding ceremony. I used Photo Slideshow Director HD to create the wedding slideshow with several wedding songs, and played the slideshow on a large projector with 100 inches wide. After the ceremony, my friend called me and told me that the guests really like the slideshow. People clapped their hands for many times and were impressed by their happiness and love.

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In my opinion, a good iPad slideshow app should contain the following feature:

1. Easy to use. I do not want to spend much time to read the long tutorial. It should be user-friendly and have a clear guide.

2. Kinds of transition effects for choosing.

3. Allows me to zoom in and zoom out our pictures.

4. Enables to loop a slideshow. In some cases, you have to loop a slideshow all the time, such as a wedding slideshow, product promotion slideshow, and etc.

5. Supports background music and slideshow/music synchronization.

6. Airplay a slideshow to HDTV.

7. Upload a slideshow directly to Facebook and YouTube. So I can photo my photographs to friends easily.

8. Photo editor to edit and optimize photos.

Fortunately, Photo Slideshow Director HD has all the above feature. Besides, it can download photos from Facebook/Flickr/Picasa/Dropbox/SkyDrive/Instagram and save them on iPad , or turn these web album photos into a slideshow movie.

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Photo Slideshow Director HD is really an amazing slideshow software to showcase and share my photography portfolio.  Though iPhoto and iMovie can help much, this iPad slideshow app is more powerful.

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An Photo Organizer, Editor and Slideshow Viewer for iPad

January 18, 2013 8:28 am ⋅
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Are you searching for an iPad App to organize , edit and view your photos in slideshow? Photo Slideshow Director HD is just such a multifunctional photo organizer, editor and slideshow viewer for iPad.

Photo Organizing:

1. Import photos from iPad and Web albums to the app. It support photos adding from Picasa, Facebook, Flickr, Dropbox, SkyDrive and Instagram.

2. Add photos or delete photos you do not want to include in the slideshow project.

3. Sort or move photos by name or date, or by a simple drag and drop gesture.

4. Option to set your favorite photo as the project cover photo.

arrange photo order

sort photos by name and date

Photo Editing:

1.Apply kinds of  effects to photos, such as original, single,vivid, san carmen and more.

2.Add stickers on photos  to decorate photos.

3.Add text and subtitles on photos to deliver special meaning.

4. Other photo editing features including brightness, contrast, saturation, sharpness, orientation, cropping, drawing, whitening, blemish eliminating, redeye removing and enhancing.

5. After editing, it is available to save edited photos to iPad Photo Library.

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Photo editing feature

Slideshow Viewing

1. Kinds of professional transition effects available, including 3d transitions, color blend transitions, slices&boxes, various masks types. Also, it can automatically apply transitions.

2. Set pan&zoom effects using gestures.

3. Support adding more than one songs as background  music, slideshow and music synchronization.

4. Various slideshow themes for choosing.

5. Set slides and transitions time to control the slideshow.

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Slideshow effects

Slideshow Sharing

1. View photos in slideshow on iPad

2. Stream photo slideshow to HDTV via Airplay

3. Directly upload your photos to YouTube, Facebook, Dropbox and SkyDrive as a slideshow video.

4. Wirelessly transfer the photo slideshow to PC

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Photo slideshow sharing

App Store Download Link: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/photo-slideshow-director-hd/id457847244?mt=8

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Photo Slideshow Director HD User Manual

May 10, 2012 10:12 am ⋅
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Photo Slideshow Director HD is a very easy to use iPad/iPhone photo app, it has an intuitive interface.  To use our software without a manual for everybody is our goal. However,  with a manual, it is more effective to learn how to use this iPad photo app ASAP, please click the link below to read :

PDF Version of Photo Slideshow Director User Manual

We have received lots of reviews on AppStore, Thank you for your support to us.

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