Slide show duration in iPhoto

Is there a way to show the duration of the slide show in iPhoto?
I have been editing a fairly big slide show, 155 photos, and I now need to exactly match the audio track. Is there a way to vew the total time of the slide show?

hello
I too have issues with iphoto and the slideshow. I created a slideshow, selected a 7 and a half minute song and chose (fit to music) and the movie it exported was over 11 minutes long. It also was less than 400 megabytes (so obviously a reference movie as it's rougly 1.8 gigs for a bout 9 minutes or so of DV) and when imported into imovie the transistions were not rendered smoothly ( the turned pages became jaggy and the pictures dimmed right before the turn). I have a brand new emac with everything upgraded (OS,imovie,iphotoand quicktime pro) Something isn't playing fair.

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