Where can I find an amateur book-trailer maker to design a trailer for free or at a low cost?

I suggest you to use Microsoft Powerpoint to create a slideshow for your book, and convert it to a flash (.swf) which is supported by youtube. You can use Openoffice (It's free download from download.openoffice.org/) to convert a powerpoint presentation to flash . Swf file.

Firts create a powerpoint presentation for your book and then follow these steps. 1. Run the OpenOffice Impress program 2.

Click the File tab and then Open and select your previously created Powerpoint (.ppt) file. 3. After the ppt is opened, on the File tab click export and select the location it will be saved as on your Computer.4.

Select . Swf on the export as menu and click OK 5. You can open the .

Swf in your Internet Explorer browser to view. If there is a yellow box warning about an activeX contol, right-click and click allow blocked content.6. Clicking on the slide in the .

Swf will make it go to the next slide. Once you create a . Swf file you can upload your video (.swf file) to youtube or any other video sharing website and promote it.

If you're referring to the types of "trailers" authors are now putting out, modeled after movie trailers, then Id suggest anyone with adequate knowledge of final cut or adobe premiere or avid or even adobe after effects. All of these programs are more than capable of creating a small-scale book trailer. Craigslist can be helpful here - but I went to film school and may have a few names foe you.

E-Mail|Email me w/ further specs.

I realize this is an older question with answers, but I wanted to add information for those who search for this in the future. Trailers for books can actually be created quite easily using stock photos, stock video footage, licensed music snippets, and Microsoft Movie Maker, which comes free on any PC (not Mac, sorry). It's super easy and they are fun to create.

You can use free stock photos from Stock Exchange, or you can purchased inexpensive licensed rights to use them from other stock sites. I create trailers for books for $50-100 bucks, depending on the length of the trailer desired, how many photos I have to purchase licenses for, and how much time I expect it will take to read the book (to get a feel for the plot that goes in the trailer without giving away anything important! ), etc.It's super easy to make your own though, and then you can upload it to YouTube or Myspace or any of those other sites that take video uploads, all for free!

I can do such things.... modelmayhem.com/25157.

Here is an example of a book trailer. The cost in buying still photo's and stock animations was $400 and assembled on Apples Final Cut Studio. Www.Ideawerksstudios.com.

I always go to Craigslist|Craigslist.com when I'm looking for something. Good luck!

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