Photos that come into view calmly, with music that fits them exactly. With this tool you create the photo presentation yourself, without needing to understand anything about the technology: you choose the photos and the music, and the rest is taken care of for you.
About 8 seconds per photo, so that everyone has the time to really look.
The time per photo is calculated from the length of the piece of music.
iPhone photos (HEIC) too are converted automatically into the right format.
Crop photos if you need to; the original is always kept.
During a funeral, burial or memorial service, a series of photos is often shown on a screen, usually to a meaningful piece of music. A presentation like this is also called a slideshow or a funeral service presentation. The form is different at every service: sometimes it is a single musical moment with photos, sometimes several moments, interspersed with speakers and a video.
Funeral halls and crematoria almost always work with Microsoft PowerPoint. This tool therefore does not deliver a film file, but a real PowerPoint for the funeral service (.pptx). That has a big advantage: something can still be adjusted right up until shortly before the service, and operating it at the venue works the way people are used to there.
A good rule of thumb is 20 to 25 photos per piece of music, about 8 seconds per photo. That may sound like few, but it gives everyone in the room the time to really take in each photo. Chronological usually looks loveliest: from young to old, the series tells a life story of its own accord. You can read more tips in our article about choosing photos for a funeral presentation.
Preparing the photos is kept deliberately simple. You drag the photos into the right order (on your phone by tapping and moving), crop them if needed and, if you wish, choose one fixed memorial photo that recurs at the entrance, during the speakers and at the final farewell.
The hardest thing about a photo presentation is the timing: each photo has to be on screen for exactly long enough, so that the last photo and the music end together. The tool takes this arithmetic off your hands. It measures the length of the piece of music, counts the fades between the photos and spreads the time evenly. Add a photo or remove one, and everything is recalculated automatically.
You upload music as MP3, M4A or WAV. If you only have a piece as a video, you can use that MP4 as music too; the tool extracts the sound. Need help choosing? Read choosing funeral music: where to begin.
You build the service from blocks that follow the running order of the funeral: the entrance, speakers, music with photos, live music, video and the final farewell. From these blocks a PowerPoint takes shape in which all the technical work is already built in:
First you view a trial version with a watermark for free. Only when everything is right do you pay 1 credit for the final version, which you can then keep adjusting for free until 7 days after the funeral service.
About the photos, the music and the cost of a photo presentation.
Reckon on 20 to 25 photos per piece of music; that works out at about 8 seconds per photo. With two musical moments in the service you therefore arrive at roughly 40 to 50 photos. Fewer good photos that can be viewed calmly are better than a great many photos that flash past.
Yes. You can upload JPG, PNG and HEIC files. HEIC is the default format for iPhone photos; the tool converts them automatically, so you do not need to convert anything beforehand. You can also crop photos directly in the tool.
Yes, that is precisely the point. Per block you link a piece of music to a series of photos. The music plays continuously across all the photos, and the time per photo is worked out so that the song and the last photo end together exactly.
Building it and viewing a trial version with a watermark is free. The final version costs 1 credit: €19.95 per funeral service, including 21% VAT. Packages make it cheaper: 5 credits for €89.75 or 10 credits for €149.50. See the pricing page.
Build the photo presentation at your own pace and view a trial version with a watermark for free. You are under no obligation.