Photo Story 3 Background Music

Try adding a .wma, .mp3 or .wav file.

Midi files do not contain a sound font...they
only contain the musical notation. (That's why
the files are so small)

With some experimenting...the freebie at the
following link will enable you to combine the
midi with a sound font and covert the file to
an .mp3. you can use in your photo story.

After the program unzips at C:\timidity......
open the folder and read the TimiditySetup.txt
file...it explains how to use the program.
timw32q.exe will launch the program.

TiMidity CD Quality Midi Player/Converter
http://www.newfreeware.com/audio/1583/

--

John Inzer
MS Picture It! MVP



"bigtim" <bigtim@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:C704539E-BEF7-4964-A5C8-FBE430165380@microsoft.com...

> How do you add midi files into Photo Story 3 ? I tried and midi file do
> not
> work.
>
> Bigtim
>
> "PapaJohn (MVP)" wrote:
>

>> Ellen, a newsletter reader, sent me a link to a website with packages of
>> downloadable midi files that are free to use for non-commercial purposes.
>> I'm passing it along:
>>
>> http://members.shaw.ca/smythe/archive.htm
>>
>> There are 16 packages with 2,650 files of full tunes, made by scanning
>> those
>> old rolls of paper from 'player pianos' and converting them to computer
>> midi
>> files.
>>
>> It's hard to tell the difference between hearing the midi file and a real
>> piano.... much higher quality than the computer generated midi music of
>> Photo Story 3.
>>
>> A wonderful resource for background piano music for stories and movies.
>>
>> --
>> PapaJohn
>>
>> Movie Maker 2 and Photo Story 3 - www.papajohn.org
>> Photo Story 2 - www.photostory.papajohn.org
>> ..
>>
>>
>>

Play the midi file in WMP and capture it into a high quality WMV file using
Movie Maker 2's narration feature... then it'll be available for PS3.

--
PapaJohn

Movie Maker 2 and Photo Story 3 - www.papajohn.org
Photo Story 2 - www.photostory.papajohn.org
..
"bigtim" <bigtim@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:C704539E-BEF7-4964-A5C8-FBE430165380@microsoft.com...

> How do you add midi files into Photo Story 3 ? I tried and midi file do
> not
> work.
>
> Bigtim
>
> "PapaJohn (MVP)" wrote:
>

>> Ellen, a newsletter reader, sent me a link to a website with packages of
>> downloadable midi files that are free to use for non-commercial purposes.
>> I'm passing it along:
>>
>> http://members.shaw.ca/smythe/archive.htm
>>
>> There are 16 packages with 2,650 files of full tunes, made by scanning
>> those
>> old rolls of paper from 'player pianos' and converting them to computer
>> midi
>> files.
>>
>> It's hard to tell the difference between hearing the midi file and a real
>> piano.... much higher quality than the computer generated midi music of
>> Photo Story 3.
>>
>> A wonderful resource for background piano music for stories and movies.
>>
>> --
>> PapaJohn
>>
>> Movie Maker 2 and Photo Story 3 - www.papajohn.org
>> Photo Story 2 - www.photostory.papajohn.org
>> ..
>>
>>
>>

As a follow-up note to this thread, I used 3 of the old piano roll midi
files to create background music for a 66 second ample story, playing the
midi files in WMP10 and narrating the timeline in Movie Maker to create WMA
files... then I used the MM2 audio track in PS3 as the background music.
Here's a link to the sample story...

http://www.eicsoftware.com/PapaJohn/...rmansMarch.wmv

--
PapaJohn

Movie Maker 2 and Photo Story 3 - www.papajohn.org
Photo Story 2 - www.photostory.papajohn.org
..
"PapaJohn (MVP)" <PapaJohn@CharterMI.net> wrote in message
news:u7VDozgPFHA.3076@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl...

> Play the midi file in WMP and capture it into a high quality WMV file
> using Movie Maker 2's narration feature... then it'll be available for
> PS3.
>
> --
> PapaJohn
>
> Movie Maker 2 and Photo Story 3 - www.papajohn.org
> Photo Story 2 - www.photostory.papajohn.org
> .
> "bigtim" <bigtim@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:C704539E-BEF7-4964-A5C8-FBE430165380@microsoft.com...

>> How do you add midi files into Photo Story 3 ? I tried and midi file do
>> not
>> work.
>>
>> Bigtim
>>
>> "PapaJohn (MVP)" wrote:
>>

>>> Ellen, a newsletter reader, sent me a link to a website with packages of
>>> downloadable midi files that are free to use for non-commercial
>>> purposes.
>>> I'm passing it along:
>>>
>>> http://members.shaw.ca/smythe/archive.htm
>>>
>>> There are 16 packages with 2,650 files of full tunes, made by scanning
>>> those
>>> old rolls of paper from 'player pianos' and converting them to computer
>>> midi
>>> files.
>>>
>>> It's hard to tell the difference between hearing the midi file and a
>>> real
>>> piano.... much higher quality than the computer generated midi music of
>>> Photo Story 3.
>>>
>>> A wonderful resource for background piano music for stories and movies.
>>>
>>> --
>>> PapaJohn
>>>
>>> Movie Maker 2 and Photo Story 3 - www.papajohn.org
>>> Photo Story 2 - www.photostory.papajohn.org
>>> ..
>>>
>>>
>>>

>
>