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Start with the contact sheet, not with effects. Lay the approved photographs out and remove anything you would not put on the listing: a dark hallway, a tilted ceiling, a near-duplicate of a stronger frame. Ten considered pictures will hold a viewer longer than a dump of the whole shoot. A video makes repetition obvious.
In PropertyCuts, a photo slideshow is one of the ways to open a project. You choose the shape first: landscape, portrait or square. Each photograph then sits on the timeline and holds for five seconds to begin with. You can shorten or lengthen that hold. The pictures stay still unless you later choose to animate one.
Choose frames that can carry a room
Pick one photograph per space unless a room genuinely needs two. A kitchen might need the run of units and then the dining end. A living room rarely needs four angles of the same sofa. If two frames show the same corner, keep the one with the clearer lines and the more useful light.
Prefer pictures that are already straight, bright enough and composed for the shape you will export. A wide exterior that only works in landscape will lose the house when you crop it for a portrait phone video. The format guide is the place to make that choice before you build the sequence.
Leave people out unless they were meant to be in the marketing and you have permission to show them. Reflections in appliances, shower screens and televisions are easy to miss on a contact sheet and obvious once the frame is full screen.
Plan the walk before you touch the timeline
Order the video the way you would walk a buyer or tenant through the home. Outside first, so they know which building they are about to enter. Then the arrival, the rooms that decide a viewing, and the spaces that answer practical questions: where you cook, where you sleep, how you reach the garden.
Here is an illustrative sequence for a typical three-bedroom house. It is an example of ordering, not a real instruction and not a property you can book.
- The front of the house, straight on, in the light you would want a visitor to arrive in.
- The entrance or hall, so the front door connects to the rooms that follow.
- The main living space, in the widest frame that still keeps the furniture readable.
- The kitchen, including enough of the units to judge the size, and the dining area if it is part of the same room.
- The garden, terrace or balcony, filmed or photographed from the door that leads to it.
- The main bedroom.
- The second bedroom.
- The third bedroom, even if it is small, so the room count matches the listing.
- The main bathroom, and a second bathroom only if it changes the decision.
- One detail the gallery might bury: a fireplace, a view, built-in storage, or the parking space.
Skip any step the property does not have. Do not invent a dining room with a photograph of a corner of the kitchen. If you are deciding what to capture next time, the shot list is written for both stills and short clips.
Set a pace a stranger can follow
Five seconds is a sensible starting hold because it is long enough to see a room and short enough that the film keeps moving. It is the default for a still in a PropertyCuts slideshow, not a rule you have to keep for every frame.
Give a wide exterior or a large open-plan room a little longer if the eye needs to travel. Give a tight detail less, sometimes three seconds, so it does not feel like a pause. Watch the cut once without adjusting anything. If you are waiting for the next room, the hold is too long. If you cannot tell which room you were just in, it is too short.
Use a straight cut between most rooms. A short dissolve can soften a jump from interior to garden. A different transition on every frame makes the edit louder than the house. The rooms should feel like one visit, not a showcase of effects.
Add the facts, the mark and the music
People forward videos and watch them without sound. The address, the number of bedrooms and the price, if you are publishing it, need to be on the picture, not only in the caption. Keep the type large enough for a phone and away from the edges, especially on a portrait cut where interface and cropping both steal the border.
PropertyCuts can carry your logo, listing text and contact details on the project, including an opening or closing logo card if you want one. Use the agency or the agent’s identity. A photographer’s credit, if it is agreed, belongs at the end and should stay small.
Music is optional. PropertyCuts includes tracks you can place under the edit, and you can upload a track when you have the rights to use it in a property advert. If you are unsure about a song from a streaming library, leave it out. Silence with clear pictures is safer than a track you do not control. Keep the level under the point where it fights any voice, and fade it rather than stopping it mid-phrase.
Know when a slideshow is enough
A slideshow is the right film when the photography is already strong and the job is to show the home clearly: a portal listing, a vendor update, a first social post. It is also the right film when you are short of time. You are arranging work that has already been approved, not promising a camera move you did not shoot.
Motion earns its place on a few frames, not on every one. A long living room, a garden or a facade can feel more spatial with a gentle generated move. A tiled bathroom, a frame full of straight joinery, or a picture you are already unsure about should stay still. Generated motion is not footage of someone walking through the house. If you need to choose between a slideshow, animated stills and a filmed walkthrough, use the comparison of those three routes.
Review it the way a stranger will
Play the video from the first frame with the sound on, then again with the sound off. Check that the price and the room count match the listing you are about to update. Check that no room appears twice unless you meant it to. Look at door frames and window lines: if a picture was slightly skewed on the contact sheet, the video will not hide it.
In PropertyCuts you can preview the edit in the browser before you export. The export is an MP4 in the shape you chose when you opened the project. The app shows the credit cost before you confirm. New ReHub accounts start with 10 free credits, shared across eligible tools, and no card is required. That balance is not a promise of a set number of videos.
When the facts are right and the order makes sense, export it. A clear film that exists will do more for the listing than a more elaborate one that is still open on your desktop tomorrow.
Make the next one easier
Save the logo and the way you write the facts, then repeat the same room order on the next ordinary house. The creative decisions that matter are which frames you keep and how long each one stays. Everything else should become a habit.
If the photographs are not shot yet, take the shot list on the next viewing. If they are already in the folder, open PropertyCuts, choose the shape the video is actually for, and build the walk.