How to Make a Christmas Greeting Video or Video Card?

Christmas is the most important festival in western countries. This year's Christmas is at the corner, maybe you are considering making a Christmas greeting video or a funny Christmas video card to your friends and family members. But making a video sounds a little difficult for beginners in video-making field. Therefore, in this article we have collected several Christmas Video Makers for you to do you a big favor!

Christmas Video Maker

1. Free Christmas Video Maker - Aiseesoft Slideshow Maker

Aiseesoft Slideshow Maker is a free Christmas video maker that enables you to create your own Merry Christmas videos for free with your favourite music, photos and videos easily.

Make a Christmas video in 5 steps:

Please firstly download and install the free Aiseesoft Slideshow Maker on your Windows PC.

1Add photos or videos

After launching this Christmas video maker, you can add photos or videos to this program to make a video. All video formats are supported, including MTS, M2TS, TS, TRP, TP, MPG, MEPG2, VOB, DAT, MP4, M4V, RM, RMVB, WMV, ASF, AVI, etc. Just click "Download Online Video" button to enter the video URL and download it. It also supports almost all image formats, you can add photos in BMP, JPG, JPEG, PNG, TIF, TIFF, ICO, DIB, JFIF, EMF and GIF format.

2Select a Theme

There are different styles of themes available for you to choose, including Fashion, Happy, Sport, Travel, Business, Festival, Wedding, and Old Times. You can choose a Christmas theme for your Christmas video card in the theme of Festival.

3Import music

You are allowed to add background music to your Christmas video. For a Christmas greeting video or a Christmas video card, the background music must be Jingle Bells. By the way, you can also record your own voice and add it to your Christmas video to send your Christmas greetings to your loved one. The supported music formats are MP3, MP2, AAC, AC3, WAV, WMA, M4A, RA, RAM, OGG, AU, AIF, AIFF, APE and FLAC.

4Preview your Christmas video

You are able to preview the video you have made before you export it to confirm the video effects. When previewing the video, you are still able to edit the opening and ending titles.

5Set output format and share with friends

In the last step, you could make the output setting for your Christmas video. The supported output formats include MP4, AVI, ASF, MOV, MKV, WMV, VOB, M4V, etc. What's more, the resolution of the output video can be adjusted up to 1080P, which ensures the quality of your Christmas video.

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2. Professional Christmas Video Maker - Aiseesoft Slideshow Creator

Aiseesoft Slideshow Creator is the upgraded version of Aiseesoft Slideshow Maker. Compared with Slideshow Maker, it's more powerful in functionality as there are various video/photo/music editing functions built in this Christmas Video Maker.

Since Aiseesoft Slideshow Creator is strengthened on the basis of Aiseesoft Slideshow Maker, so here we will only introduce its extra features that the Maker doesn't have.

Features:

Powerful editing functions

The powerful editing functions will make your raw video clips into a perfect slideshow video. You are able to adjust video effects like contrast, saturation, brightness, hue, temperature, tint, exposure and 3D LUT. The rotate function enables you to correct your video to the right angle. You can also cut unnecessary video parts with the clip function, or merge several clips into one video.

There are more editing tools you can use to make your Christmas video more creative. For example, you can make fast & slow motion video playback according to your needs, loop playback of background music, mosaic the part you want to hide, save the project for later modification, extract original music from your video, etc.

Create your own theme

Except picking up a movie style from different styles of themes, you can also DIY the material you have to make your own unique and creative theme. Have a look at the Christmas themes in the Slideshow Creator.

The ready Christmas themes in Aiseesoft Slideshow Creator are in traditional style, if you want to make a unique and special video, such as a funny Christmas video, you can try to DIY a theme by yourself.

To DIY your own theme, there are 31 types of text effects, 31 transition modes, 32 kinds of filter effects, 37 selections of elements for you to choose. If you are creative enough and there are full of Christmas video ideas in your mind, you can make a definitely unique and perfect Christmas video with this powerful Christmas Video Maker.

The steps to make a Christmas video with Aiseesoft Slideshow Creator is similar to those with Aiseesoft Slideshow Maker, so here we will not introduce again.

3. Animaker

Animaker is a free online Christmas video maker, you can make animated Christmas video greetings for your loved ones with this website easily.

With just 4 steps, you can make a customized Christmas greeting video easily.

1Choose a template you like

2Customize Santa's actions

3Edit text and upload your own images

4Share your Christmas greeting video to your loved ones

Conclusion:

If you just want to make a simple Christmas greeting video for free, Animaker can be a good choice, both Windows and Mac users can use it easily. If you want to make a more creative Christmas video with your own ideas and story, but you are just a beginner, Aiseesoft Slideshow Maker is more suitable for you. And if you want to customize a Christmas video with your own creativity for your loved friends and family members, and have a high requirement on video quality and effects, Aiseesoft Slideshow Creator will be your best choice.