Slideshow problems - dissolve transition - disabling Ken (sodding) Burns

After using iphoto4 for awhile, I had some problems with itunes and slideshows that I couldn't resolve. Finding a few bucks I decided to upgrade to iphoto 6 - big, big mistake. I use duplicates of my photos, then add or delete layers in photoshop, bringing in nice changes - usually names - by dissolving from one to the next. It worked very well. The photos now darken, even though I disabled/enabled/disabled the colorsync profile addition, and the dissolve from one slide to the next appears to darken, then lighten showing a very obvious and crude recreation of what was a seamless change in iphoto 4.
In addition, there is apparently no way to globally change preferences to the way slideshows are set up. Every slide show has to have the same changes made to the settings - disable Ken (%$#@#$) Burns - change the times and whatever the color sync problem is.
Does anyone know how these problems can be resolved?
Can iphoto 4 still be purchased? Does anyone want to exchange an iphoto 4 install disc for my iphoto 6 disc?
iMac G5 Mac OS X (10.4.7)

I was surfing cnet.com last night and ran into this link for iPhoto 4.0.3...
<imho> iDVD is much better at creating slideshows, a couple of limitations but the end result is often more accpetable...
Rick
iMac G5 iSight 20" - 30G iPOD in Slimming Black - Mac OS X (10.4.7) - HP Pav 15" WS and Toshiba Sat 17" WS LP's - Canon 20D & A620

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I am having a problem with my slide show. I made a slideshow in DVDSP with iphoto jpeg photos. I set them to use the dissolve transition. I have my encoding preferences set to two pass 5mps (max 7mps) and built my disk. In the simulator everything looks o.k.
When I play the disk with the apple dvd player the following often happens. The slide will be transitioning to the next slide and once the new slide is fully there you can see in the background the first frame for the following transition. the duration is set to 5sec. So sometimes say when I have a portrait format photo in the black areas to the left and right you can see the first frame of the next transition 5 seconds before it is supposed to start.
Also the quality of the slide pictures seems very poor. Any suggestions for the transitions and quality?
Thanks.

usually I have seen this occur with transitions in simulator and not on the burned disc. You might try creating a track from your slideshow, it should behave pretty much the same, though you'll want to use the slideshow editor first to set up your content, transitions, durations, etc.
You may be able to get better quality transitions by switching the final rendering preference in the menu pane of the preferences. This is described on pg. 115 of the online manual.
If you convert the slideshow to a track, the quality will be affected by the SD encoding settings instead.
Hope this helps -
Max Average

When i create a slideshow in iphoto using the ken burns effect it will not work in idvd. any tips please.

when i create a slideshow in iphoto with the ken burns effect it works fine. when i then transfer it to idvd it will not work. any tips please.

With the amount of information you've provided it's impossible to offer a solution. We can't see your computer so we need to know the details of your problem and setup, i.e.:
what version of iPhoto are you using?
what system version are you running?
how are you getting the slideshow into iDVD?
what size slideshow did you send to iDVD?
can you export the slideshow to the Desktop and play it with Quicktime Player there?
what fixes have you tried?
how much free space on your boot drive?
Here's how you should create and sent a slideshow to iDVD from iPhoto:
Export the slideshow out of iPhoto as a QT movie file via the Export button in the lower toolbar. For iPhoto 9.4.3 and earlier select Size = Medium or Large. For iPhoto 9.5 and later selct 480p.
Open iDVD, select a theme and drag the exported QT movie file into the open iDVD window being careful to avoid any drop zones.
Follow this workflow to help assure the best quality video DVD:
Once you have the project as you want it save it as a disk image via the File ➙ Save as Disk Image menu option. This will separate the encoding process from the burn process.
To check the encoding mount the disk image, launch DVD Player and play it. If it plays OK with DVD Player the encoding is good.
Then burn to disk with Disk Utility or Toast at the slowest speed available (2x-4x) to assure the best burn quality. Always use top quality media: Verbatim, Maxell or Taiyo Yuden DVD-R are the most recommended in these forums.

Problem with getting Dissolve Transitions - Premiere Elements 9

Have been using Premiere Elements for years and up to Premiere Elements 7 I have had no problem applying Dissolve Transitions or other Transitions in a very straight forward manner, Since I moved to Premiere Elements 9 I can not get Dissolve Transitions to work at all. Some of the transitions work as before but many give a problem
Tempted to move back to Premiere Elements 7.
Anybody had the same problem and able to resolve it.
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BMcD

Billy,
Welcome to the forum.
I'm with Steve on asking "what exactly is the problem?"
If you are having issues with a Cross-Dissolve only going to one Clip, and not spanning the Clips, or having Frames, that were edited out, showing up during the Transition, then take a look at this ARTICLE on Handles. Those (well, actually the lack, thereof) trip up many.
Good luck, and please let us know more,
Hunt

Faulty Transitions (green screen) in burned DVD and no play on iMac

I made my first DVD with iDVD '08 this week and initially all seemed to be OK.
It contains 7 slide shows and 7 movies, total size 4.02 GB.
The problems I have since found are are :-
1. The DVD will not play in my iMac 24", the menus judder or lock up, and the movies judder and skip. When I play the DVD in a real DVD player the menus and movies are fine.
2. On the DVD player the slide shows are OK to start with, having the correct 'Dissolve' transition between sides. The problem is that after about 30 slides the transition is replaced by a green screen between slides.
When I view the DVD in iDVD it works OK, but not when burned.
I also exported a disc image and that also has the same transition issues, so it looks like iDVD is outputting faulty files.
I redid my DVD in a different theme and removed the slide transitions which reduced the DVD to less than 2GB, it seems to work OK now, but I would like to use transitions at some point!
Ian

Ian,
I made a project with only one "drop zone" slideshow by pulling 99 pictures from the media iPhoto window with dissolve transitions.
It failed with about a dozen green screen transitions in the end of the slide show.
I remove one picture reducing the count to 98.
It was good. No green screen transitions.
I saved as .img to eliminate disc problems.
I repeated the test for several themes especially 7.0s which others have found to be problems.
I tested all qualities and both ratios.
With my 20"iMac 99 pictures in one slide show fail, 98 and less work.
I don't understand why your project with slide shows of less than 98 pictures is not working.
Your total project was relatively large and could be a memory error. I suggest testing a smaller project, it won't drive you so crazy waiting an hour or more for each processing cycle.
There are certainly other concerns such as free disc space and RAM etc, and before the latest updates push from iPhoto to iDVD produced different results than pull to iDVD from iPhoto, etc.
History: the 99 limit was the reality that many DVD player will buffer overflow at more than 99 chapters (each picture is seen as a chapter). The original iDVD limited each slide show to 99.
Recent releases allowed as many pictures in one slide show 'drop zone' as desired.
I have been limiting myself to 99 so they will play on most DVD players.
The 99 number and info you quoted from Apple guidelines I find to now be wrong.
They have a bug.
I suggest sending a bug report from iDVD.
I'm an engineer and I've been messing with this for a week trying to get a project out.
Hope this helps
Best wishes
Chris

Photo quality horrible due to dissolve transition

Hi,
I am making a slideshow in Imovie for my son's baseball team. The pics I've shot are all super high resolution, but I inserted dissolve transitions between them and now the pictures are no longer sharp and have digitized edges. They looked great on the computer screen. When I burned it in iDVD they look horrible. Is there a transition that won't do this? The slide show is tomorrow and I am ready to scream. Any help would be appreciated.
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Hello Jonathan!
Really nice photos! You, no doubt, have a much better eye than I do for details and such and it's no wonder that various compression artifacts would be more noticeable to you! Your photos look very acceptable to me.
The downside to the iPhoto-to-iWeb one-click automatic process is that you the photographer lose control over two things... the quality of resolution scaling and the quality of jpg (re)compression. Preprocessing of your images in something like Photoshop would definitely give you more control over these variables and would most likely allow you to see more acceptable images as posted online.
For your information, the max resolution for the Apple enhanced slideshows is 800x600. If you import a photo at any higher resolution, iWeb will take over again and resize and recompress your photo. So my recommendation to you would be to preprocess your images to make them look good at 800x600 and prevent iWeb from doing anything else to your images.
I hope this helps.

Simple problem with transitions

Hi everyone
I am having a small bit of a problem with transitions....
When I drag a clip from the viewer over the canvas to get the menu bar pop up, and select insert with transition ( cross dissolve ) it puts in a transition but its very short and too fast and when i select it and try to make adjustments it doesn't seem to let me make any changes to the cross dissolve.
I wander what i am doing wrong?
Many thanks Tim

Hi
Just as David Harbsmeier indicates. Handles
Transitions are handled differently in iMovie resp FinalCut.
• iMovie - material that builds the transition is taken from the videoclips = the total length remains same
• FinalCut (as pro- works) . You have to set of a piece of material in each end of the video clips.
This is called In- resp. Out-points. The remaining parts are called Handles
Transitions here are using material from these = Total lenght of movie increase
per transition.
I find books/DVDs by Tom Wolsky - Very valubale - Enjoyed them very much.
• Final Cut Express 4
• Final Cut Pro 6 - DVD course (now probably version 7)
Yours Bengt W

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Based on my limited experience, the most useful transition is the cross dissolve. It is pretty much the only one I use since it is doesn't draw attention to itself and bears repeated deployment for smooth scene changes. But it has a problem: If you simply make a clip split and put the transition in, it won't work. And it appears even high level people at Apple technical support don't understand what is going on. Based on the apparently incorrect background information they gave me, I have always been extremely careful about making the split precisely where the scene changes and then chopping off a small number of frames in order to make the transition work. But recently I discovered that cross dissolve transitions will always work (regardless of whether the frames on both sides of the cut are similar or even identical) if you delete precisely one frame, and it can be from either side of the split. When you do that the edges of the clip go from squared (right angles) to rounded. The cross dissolve transitions will never work between two clips that have squared edges. They will always work when the edges are rounded. And all it takes to get the edges to be rounded is the deletion one frame. The edges get rounded and cross dissolve transitions work and if you remove more than one frame, and/or do if from both sides of the split. The point is that it will work with as little as one frame. But if you don't sacrifice at least one frame, cross dissolve transitions will never work.
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When one splits clips, don't split close to what will be the beginning or the end of a shot.That's why you should always start the camera BEFORE the action begins and run AFTER the action ends. It only needs to be a 1/2 second to 1 second. Now before you add a cut or a transition you will automatically trim the end and the beginning of the two clips.
I start with a two-hour clip that includes hundreds of scenes, some ending abruptly, some not. If scene one suddenly ends and scene two begins, the natural place to make the cut is where the scene changes. If it happens that there is stuff immediately on each side of the cut that is of value, you would might prefer not to lose even one frame. Usually on one of the two sides the loss of one frame is not so bad. And if you sacrifice that frame you have almost everything you want. But it turns out that the situation is better than that. Since you can also add frames (I now realize), you can end without losing any frames at all. Of course, if you happen to be in a situation where there is plenty of useless stuff on both sides of a cut, the problem the solution is trying to solve does not come up. But I wouldn't change my filming habits just to avoid this problem of adding cross dissolves, since once you know what to handle it, it's not much of a problem. As to whether it is good practice to aim to have extra footage on both sides of a shot, sure. That seems like a good rule of thumb to me. But there are many situations where you don't have that opportunity. Say you were filming John Kennedy in Dallas or life among the Taliban or your kid falling off a horse. Life may not give you the chance to put useless footage at the end or beginning of your shot. In my case, I have hours of amateur home movies that stop at all sorts of odd places. I can't go back and reshoot it.
I suspect Apple simply expected you to do this. This will inherently eliminate what may be a tiny bug that you overcome by trimming 1 frame.
Most transition types don't require the removal or addition of a frame. When I called Apple technical support about this, the person I talked to was surprised by this feature too. And he found it happening with at least one other transition, I think. He handed me over to a specialist. That specialist gave me a complicated theory for why this was happening. He said that the frames on both sides of the cut had to look fairly different for the transition to work. And sometimes when we think we have made the cut exactly where the scene changes, we haven't in fact. So we need to cut away until both sides are definitely different. And you will notice that often the thumbnail for one side will be an image from the other side. This lead me to think that I was required to make sure that on either side of the cut there was definitely a significant change of image. But all you have to do is get the edges of the clip to become rounded. And you can do this by adding or subtracting a frame at any location. Of course, if you are going to be chopping off multiple frames for any reason, you will also solve or avoid this problem. So, if Apple was thinking what you suggest, they haven't given any guidance about it in print. And the tech support people don't seem to know it.
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FCP won't add cross dissolve transition to clips

After putting two Quicktime clips into FCP, I attempted to add a cross dissolve transition in between the two clips. When I dragged the cross dissolve transition to the two clips, nothing happened. That transition had been used before, and as far as I can tell, nothing was different this time than all the previous times. For some odd reason, FCP refuses to add the transition to those clips.
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This is a problem when you do not edit down your raw clips and drop them into the timeline as they have been captured.
The operative concept is 'handles'.
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What I want:
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AND
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When I add audio to a slideshow, the "Manual" option under the "Slide duration" dropdown grays out. I can arrow through the slideshow, but the transitions disappear and the audio skips around.
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Hi Scott
And welcome to apple discussions. As soon as you add an audio file to a manually advanced slideshow w/in iDvd'09, guess what happens?
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Click Here
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