<p>Try out Google Picasa - it's not actually an video editor, but can combine pictures and sound to video: <a href="https://support.google.com/picasa/answer/19533?hl=en" rel="nofollow">Creating a movie</a></p>

<p>There is a videotutorial on Youtube: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrD4s5_fqgM" rel="nofollow">Creating a Movie with Photos and Music using Picasa</a></p>

<p>Also you can use Microsoft Power Point as presentation editor - it can save presentation as a video: <a href="https://support.office.com/en-US/Article/Turn-your-presentation-into-a-video-c140551f-cb37-4818-b5d4-3e30815c3e83?ui=en-US&amp;rs=en-US&amp;ad=US" rel="nofollow">Turn your presentation into a video</a></p>

<p>For background music it would be better to start new thread. Check <a href="https://www.youtube.com/audiolibrary/music" rel="nofollow">Youtube Audio Library</a>.</p>

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Vladislav
<p>So, I ended up using Prezi to run a presentation and camtasia studio to record it and render it to the video file I needed. Both were 30 day free trials, so that worked out nicely. </p>

<p>I put all the audio in Prezi (It lets you add background music for the whole presentation as well as voice overs on a slide-by-slide basis) but I could have just easily have done it in camtasia.</p>

<p>I needed the voice overs for timing in the Prezi, which is why I did it that way, but there's nothing stopping you from just putting them in anyway, and removing the sound when it gets to camtasia, and putting them in as separate tracks. You'd probably have better control of volume, etc, that way.</p>

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JujuZA
<p>So we have to make a short video (Less than 5 minutes) for a leadership course as part of our degree. (Engineering)</p>

<p>We're not really video people, so we've decided to simple slide show style video (Using something like Prezi, so that it at least looks and feels somewhat proffesional) with some voice-overs (which we've already recorded.)</p>

<p>Can anyone offer any suggestions for a simple piece of video edition software that's free? I don't need anything too feature rich, just something that can let you mix visual with audio and is quick to learn?</p>

<p>(Also, as a quick aside, can someone suggest background music that's generic and vaguely inspiring?)</p>

<p>Edit:
Posted my own answer, but still chose Vladislav's answer because it was good. Also, Youtube Audio Library was awesome. Best background music ever. Thanks.</p>

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Good software for a simple, slide-show style video presentation?
JujuZA
# Good software for a simple, slide-show style video presentation?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2014-10-03)

So we have to make a short video (Less than 5 minutes) for a leadership course as part of our degree. (Engineering)

We're not really video people, so we've decided to simple slide show style video (Using something like Prezi, so that it at least looks and feels somewhat proffesional) with some voice-overs (which we've already recorded.)

Can anyone offer any suggestions for a simple piece of video edition software that's free? I don't need anything too feature rich, just something that can let you mix visual with audio and is quick to learn?

(Also, as a quick aside, can someone suggest background music that's generic and vaguely inspiring?)

Edit:
Posted my own answer, but still chose username_1's answer because it was good. Also, Youtube Audio Library was awesome. Best background music ever. Thanks.

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### Answer by username_1 on 2014-10-03. Score: 1 | Accepted answer

Try out Google Picasa - it's not actually an video editor, but can combine pictures and sound to video: [Creating a movie](https://support.google.com/picasa/answer/19533?hl=en)

There is a videotutorial on Youtube: [Creating a Movie with Photos and Music using Picasa](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrD4s5_fqgM)

Also you can use Microsoft Power Point as presentation editor - it can save presentation as a video: [Turn your presentation into a video](https://support.office.com/en-US/Article/Turn-your-presentation-into-a-video-c140551f-cb37-4818-b5d4-3e30815c3e83?ui=en-US&rs=en-US&ad=US)

For background music it would be better to start new thread. Check [Youtube Audio Library](https://www.youtube.com/audiolibrary/music).


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### Answer by username_0 on 2014-10-05. Score: 2

So, I ended up using Prezi to run a presentation and camtasia studio to record it and render it to the video file I needed. Both were 30 day free trials, so that worked out nicely.

I put all the audio in Prezi (It lets you add background music for the whole presentation as well as voice overs on a slide-by-slide basis) but I could have just easily have done it in camtasia.

I needed the voice overs for timing in the Prezi, which is why I did it that way, but there's nothing stopping you from just putting them in anyway, and removing the sound when it gets to camtasia, and putting them in as separate tracks. You'd probably have better control of volume, etc, that way.


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