AI Slideshow Maker — Turn Photos into a Video
Valmera's AI slideshow maker turns photos into a finished video with no footage required. Start a canvas project, add your images — or generate them with AI — and describe the slideshow: the agent sequences the slides, adds Ken Burns motion, music, and titles in any aspect ratio, and renders one MP4 you can download.
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Photos in, video out — described in plain English. No credit card required.
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- 1Add your photosCreate a project and upload your images — no video file needed. You can mix in short clips, ask the agent to generate images from a text description, or paste a link to bring media into the project.
- 2Describe the slideshowType it in chat: "turn these photos into a 9:16 slideshow with Ken Burns motion and upbeat music", "make a wedding slideshow with a title that says Sara and Omar, about four seconds per photo", or "put my voiceover over the photos and duck the music while I speak".
- 3Preview and exportReview the slideshow, refine it with follow-ups ("hold the last photo longer", "switch to cinematic music"), then export the finished H.264 MP4.
Free to start: 20 credits daily plus a one-time 150-credit welcome bonus — no credit card required.
Start from Photos — No Video Required
Most video editors assume you arrive with footage. Valmera's canvas projects drop that assumption: images, short clips, AI-generated images, and music become a sequential timeline on a canvas, in any aspect ratio — 16:9 for a presentation recap, 9:16 for a Reel, square for a feed. The agent arranges the sequence from your description and rearranges it when you ask.
It's built for the jobs where photos are the material: birthday and wedding slideshows, travel recaps, product and real-estate showcases, year-in-review montages, image-plus-voiceover explainers. Browse all the AI video editing tools if your project starts from footage instead.
Ken Burns Motion Makes Photos Feel Filmed
Static slides read as a slide deck; motion reads as film. Valmera applies Ken Burns moves — slow pushes and drifts across each image — so stills carry momentum. It's honest motion on your real photos: elegant pans and zooms, not AI re-animation of the picture. Need a photo you don't have? Ask the agent to generate one from a description and it's spliced in as a full-frame still with the same Ken Burns treatment.
Music, Voiceover, and a Real Mix
A slideshow is half audio. Pick from 24 royalty-free tracks across 8 moods — upbeat, chill, cinematic, corporate, dramatic, hip-hop, ambient, inspiring — or upload your own track, or paste a link to bring one in. Adding music is one request, with volume, fades, and looping handled for you.
Add a recorded voiceover and the music ducks under your voice smoothly — real sidechain mixing, not a hard volume cut — and one request masters the final mix to −14 LUFS, the loudness target platforms expect. The details live in the audio and music docs.
Titles, Text, and Captions on Any Slide
Seven designed text templates — title, subtitle, lower third, callout, big number, quote, chapter — cover openers, names, dates, and section breaks, set in 12 bundled fonts with entrance and exit animations, including typewriter. Ask for on-screen text at any moment and position: “add a title that says Ten Years of Us at the start”. Manual captions work too, for quotes or translations you place by hand.
Honest Limits of Canvas Projects
Canvas projects skip the features that only make sense on spoken footage: automatic transcript captions, speed changes, and censor blur don't apply, because there's no main speech track to transcribe or retime. Manual captions, on-screen text, overlays, and music all work.
Two more honest boundaries: the canvas is a sequential timeline, not a freeform grid of simultaneous videos — if you want a clip playing inside a slide, that's a picture-in-picture overlay, and a video overlay's own audio doesn't play — and each request produces one finished video per export.
More Than a Slideshow Maker
The slideshow maker is one corner of a full agentic editor. The same chat can turn a long video into a short clip, resize a video for any platform, caption spoken footage word-accurately, and grade the color. Start from the full AI video editor — pricing is usage-based, with simple edits costing the least, a free plan with 20 daily credits plus the one-time 150-credit bonus, and paid plans from $20/month.
Your Photos, Edited Like Footage
Describe the slideshow — motion, music, titles — and review the preview.
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