I am very sorry to hear of your loss.
I used to use a feature that came with Windows — Windows Movie Maker — that allowed you to easily bring pictures in and sequence them and change the timing and transitions. It was also easy to add music to your images and play and edit and make changes if needed.
If you have an older Windows version, you might already have it. If not, do a Bing search..there are a number of free replacements that are supposed to do the same thing.
Best of luck with your project and prayers for your healing.
Thank you and God Bless you.
I have SO MANY old PCs that I am sure I have that program on one of them.
I used MovieMaker as well for my mom’s funeral. I had helped my kids with school projects a couple of times so I knew just enough - it was pretty simple once you got a few things figured out. Always a learning curve.
I had different music for different stages of her life, and for music that fit that time period and what I thought she might have listened to.
The first few phases I had to work quite a bit to trim the songs to make the transitions the way I wanted them. The last section was of her last few months with family and friend’s.
The second to last photo was of her just 4 days before she died, sitting in her favorite chair, trying to finish up a blanket for the last grandchild. The last photo I had was of a white lily she had received, and I put a black shirt behind it so it would stand out, then fade to black with her favorite Bible verse, which then also faded out.
It was the night before the funeral and it was late, and I was dreading editing the last song to fit the last photos. I ran the video. The Bible verse faded out - and the song faded out at the exact same time - no editing on my part!
The entire process was very cathartic.
The last song was Frank Sinatra’s “Moonlight Serenade”. She had outlived my dad and all her friends. But her True Love was there to open the Pearly Gates and take her home.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCy3pukNeNc
“So don’t let me wait, come to me tenderly in the June night. I stand at your gate and I sing you a song in the moonlight A love song, my darling, a Moonlight Serenade...”