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Recently, YouTube updated a new function to help users send out greetings with their own YouTube videos. During this pleasure season, also want to send one to your friends and families with your sincere Christmas greetings? Here is the way.



Since MS PowerPoint and Windows Movie Maker are available on most computers, below is a way of how to make a YouTube greeting card with the help of these two tools step by step.

1.If you want to personalize a video in your greeting card

You can make use of the free tool Windows Movie Maker http://www.download.com/Windows-Movie-Maker-Windows-XP-/3000-13631_4-10165075.html which comes with all Windows XP and Vista installed computers. You can either directly capture a video from the video capture device or make one with existing videos, pictures and music. After the video is OK, you can further add effects, transitions and titles to the video. In simply 3 steps, a personalized video will be created.



Below is an example of how to capture a video for your Christmas card with WMM:

-〉Click Capture from video device in the Movie Tasks menu

-〉In the coming page, you can set the Mic Volume and configure the camera & video settings

-〉Click Next. Then you will be able to see a blank needs you to enter a file name for your captured video and the place you want to save it on your computer.

-〉Click Next to continue. In the coming page, choose the video setting for your captured video. Choose Best Quality for Playback on my Computer is recommended.

-〉Go on clicking Next to the last step. In this page, you can start to capture video by clicking Start Capture, end the capture by clicking Stop Capture.

-〉After you have finished capture a video yourself, click Finish to end this process. The captured video will be displayed at the Collection area. Drag it to the video area in Timeline board. If you still want to add other pictures or music to form your video, you can do this by clicking Import Pictures and Import Audio or Music in the Movie Tasks menu. Then drag all of them to the corresponding area in Timeline board below.

Right click each object in the Timeline board. Then you will be able to set the Video Effects and the Play Timeline for them.

-〉After you have adjusted all the settings for your video, you can save the video onto your computer by clicking Save Movie File in the File tab.



2.Form the content of your Christmas greeting card with PowerPoint

As PowerPoint allows you to insert customized backgrounds, characters, pictures, animations, movies, and etc, you can take this advantage to make the content of your Christmas greeting card colorful and meaningful. The video you made with Windows Movie Maker can also be inserted into the PowerPoint. Besides, you can input greetings and warm wishes into the PowerPoint.

In this process, you just need to make full use of your imagination to create the YouTube greeting card.



3.Turn the PowerPoint you made to video format

The last step for making your own Christmas card is to convert the PowerPoint you made to video format.



Here you can try this tool: Acoolsoft PPT2Video Converter http://www.ppt-to-video.com/powerpoint-to-video-overview.html#105 ， it will handle the conversion thing. With this tool you can convert your PowerPoint to almost all popular video formats such as MPEG, AVI, MP4, WMV, 3GP, FLV and MOV.

Currently, the company has launched its Christmas sale http://www.ppt-to-video.com/christmas.html#105 , each product are sold at a favorable price.



4.Upload the video to YouTube and send it out to others

Log in YouTube with your own account and upload the video to YouTube http://www.ppt-to-video.com/support/knowledges/powerpoint-to-youtube.html#105 . On the right, you would be able to see a blank like this:



Click YouTube Greeting Cards. Then you will be able to pick a video from yours to send out. In the coming page, you can compose your message with different background themes and personal messages. Finally, enter recipients’ email addresses in the box below and send out.



Interesting? Take actions now, make a YouTube greeting card yourself. Send out your warmest and most sincere greetings to your friends and relatives. Have a merry Christmas!

About the author

May White is an expert in E-learning who concentrated to give you the best solution of PowerPoint to Video and PowerPoint to DVD, also include some tips and tricks which will make your life and work easier. Want to learn more about PowerPoint to Video and PowerPoint to DVD, visit the website now: http://www.ppt-to-video.com/ (c) Copyright - May White. All Rights Reserved Worldwide.

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