Hakapeszik48 wrote:
Thank you all for your kind suggestions! I am sorry I wasn't clear. I have family pictures and I want to make a slideshow with maybe some music background.
That was clear to me.
ANY good video editing software will assemble that perfectly for you. You can import stills, make them any length of video you want, crop them, animate them (or just leave them as stills), title them, add special effects to them, add music (be extremely sensitive to copyright issues if you post online*), add narration...
*Search for low cost/no cost, royalty-free production music and you'll find plenty. Just don't get sued for using commercially produced, copyright protected music!
To copy (digitize) prints, slides, and negatives: > Lumix GH4 digital camera with 30mm macro lens (or any digital camera with a macro lens)
> Copy stand with two photo grade LED panel lights for flat art and photo prints and one photo grade LED panel for copying film
> Film holder for slides and negatives
> Optional — Flatbed scanner such as the Epson V600 (works well for small batches of prints or medium format negatives; just okay for 35mm film)
I use Lightroom Classic and Photoshop to process raw files from the camera, so I get exactly the tonal range and crops I want, and I use Negative Lab Pro plug-in in Lightroom Classic to convert B&W and color negatives to positives. Slides and color prints can be adjusted to improve tones and color when copied in raw and edited in the Adobe tools. Now, I realize, those are advanced techniques and not for everyone. But you can use whatever tools you have to any level you see fit. I like to get carried away with it! I made corporate multi-image slide show productions back in the 1980s.
Today's video editing software is the tool of choice for AV creatives. This weekend, my twins and I will make a seven minute film in 48 hours, and we won't know what the genre, required prop, required line of dialog, and required character are until Friday night at 7:00 PM. We have done it five times before. The same tools we might use to make still images in a short film are the ones I would use for slide shows. We simply add to them for live video.
Whatever amount of time you think it will take to make a decent-looking show, multiply it by ten. It is a labor of love and not for the impatient. There is no magic device that will take a photo album or shoebox of prints and make a show from it.