120 bpm slide show

Dear Sliders,
Keynote 6.2 is not stable in terms of duration here.
My durations are
0,5 sec for the transition (crossfade) on every slide and
1,5 seconds for holding each slide.
I have 30 slides
Altogether 2 seconds per slide which run out of sync to a quantized beat. No big deal, however...
My keynote quick time export does not fit in a 120 bpm musical playback for a photo slide show and is bended over time (slides are changed later more and more over time).
AND
I had that same issue 2 years ago...;-))
How to work around that. I need good software for my work. Is Keynote okay here? Just a workflow thing, I guess...;-))
THX
Best Tim

It's either a problem with that album, or a problem with the chosen iTunes track.
Have you tried with a different album? with a different iTunes track?

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We have 500-1000 photos we just want to project for a youth project with some music. Would it be best to go through iPhoto or iDVD (or both)to do this? What is the best workflow? I just need to put in some basic transitions and music...
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Note 500 to 1000 photos is a lot of slides for one presentation. 500 slides at 3 seconds each is 25 minutes. You are limited to 120 minutes on a DVD but you have to leave time for menus and transitions also so, the slide show will need to be 100 to 110 minutes long.
To play on a commerical DVD player, using iDVD you are likely limited to 99 slides using iDVD to create the slide show. Exceeding 99 slides can be problematic with some DVD players which either won't go beyond 99 slides or may have a "stall" or glitch in the audio/video when the 99th slide is reached.
Using iMovie would produce the best quality and flexibility (multiple transitions and music etc) but is time consuming as you will have to import pictures and work on the transitions individually. Global changes to transitions and timing cannot be made.
iPhoto might be your best bet but has less flexibility, but you can make global changes to transitions and timing (but all transitions and slide times will be the same). Create a photo album of your photos and arrange them in the order you want (you can skip this step if you want but I have found it easier to rearrange the photos) and then create a slide show choosing your transition and slide times and music. Now share your slide show directly to iDVD or share to a full quality quicktime file for better quality, in this case you will have to insert the file in to iDVD yourself. Note, if you have 1000 photos, this step will take the computer some time to complete.
Use iDVD to create your disk. Strongly suggest for maximum compatibility with DVD players that you save it as a disk image and then burn the image to DVD using Disk Utility (included on your system) at 2x or lower. Use a good brand DVD-R (not -RW or +R) such as Verbatim or Maxcell.
Hope this helps.
Message was edited by: kasa
Message was edited by: kasa

Flickery transitions in iDVD slide show

I have burned two disks now using iDVD and had no trouble but I do have a question about transitions in slide shows. On the first disk I used a slide show (8 minutes, 99 images) with the “fit to music” option and the “use safe area” option for the display. The images were a little too small for my taste on my TV so I redid the show and unchecked the “safe” option. At the same time, I cut 9 of the slides but since I kept the “fit to music” option the timing was slightly slower. Fine, but I noticed that the dissolves between the images were “flickery” when compared to the first one on my TV. I had extracted the .dv of the first slideshow and included it on the second DVD so I could compare them directly and it’s true - they are smooth in the first but noticeably less so in the second, full screen, slideshow.
Has anyone else had this happen? Should I try to add nine more images back in? As it takes over an hour to burn this disk on my old, slow machine I'd rather ask first than attempt every possible variation on my own.
I can add that both disks were burned with the 60 minute “faster” rather than the 120 minute “better” quality mode. Since one doesn’t display the flickering I don’t really think the quality mode is relevant but who knows...
iDVD 4.01, G4 400 mhz 896 megs ram
G4 Sawtooth Mac OS X (10.3.9) 896 RAM, 620 gigs HD
G4 Sawtooth Mac OS X (10.3.9) 896 RAM, 620 gigs HD

Hi Rick:
Matti Haveri (one of the top rated iLife members) has done tests on this subject. here are his results:
----quote:
Movie slideshows tend to flicker with high-frequency images while "soft" images are OK.
So I did a quick test to see how the input image's resolution and blurring affects the output quality of those high-frequency images.
Test material: some 2048x1536 digital camera JPG images that had a lot of very sharp edges (buildings, thin wires, construction work scenes etc -- i.e. "high-frequency" images). I converted them to TIF so that there was no lossy JPG degradation involved. I manipulated the images in Photoshop as follows:
1. original 2048x1536
2. original bicubically resampled to 768x576. I guess also iPhoto bicubically resamples; at least the results are very similar. On the other hand, I believe Graphic Converter does not have bicubic resampling so I haven't got as good results with it.
3. original bicubically resampled to 640x480
4. original with 90° (vertical) 3 pixel Motion Blur. The idea is to blur only the horizontal thin lines which flicker on an interlaced TV. The vertical lines are unaffected by this filter.
5. original with 1 pixel Gaussian blur. This blurs horizontally approximately as much as the 3 pixel Motion blur, but it blurs the image also vertically.
In iMovie's 4:3 PAL standard DV project (720x576) I applied to each image a) no Ken Burns and b) 1-5x zoomed 10 second Ken Burns. I did not let iMovie render the non-Ken Burns images while exporting the project to iDVD because that is a well-known source for bad quality.
I burned the project via iDVD's Best Performance to DVD and checked the result via an interlaced 28" CRT TV.
The results:
#1-5 were all sharp with no Ken Burns as well as with 1x zoomed Ken Burns. But the higher resolution non-blurred input images were, in fact, TOO sharp and thus flickered on a TV:
1. 2048x1536 flickered very badly with and without Ken Burns
2. 768x576 flickered slightly less but also very disturbingly
3. 640x480 flickered only little. But both #2-3 tolerated the 3-5x zoom very badly because the input resolution was so small. The zoomed-in image was too blurry and the details were lost.
4. Vertical Motion Blur didn't flicker at all. But during the zoom there was some disturbing "living" in the vertical lines. Obviously the vertical lines must be blurred, too:
5. Gaussian blur didn't flicker and the zooms were beautiful and peaceful. The Gaussian blur lost some fine detail in the zoomed-in image but the quality was very good. And the loss of fine detail is just a trade-off for the flickerless image.
In fact, I have had very similar results to #5 with Photo To Movie's High Quality setting. Also Toast's slideshows are of good quality. A lot of people have also been satisfied with Still Life and PhotoMagico.
Conclusions:
- iMovie should blur the images so they wouldn't flicker on a TV. Applying a small Gaussian blur to the input images seems like a good workaround.
- Using Photo To Movie, Toast, Still Life and PhotoMagico and other 3rd party utilities are good alternatives, too.
----end quote
:)Sue

Slide show from QT file- skips!

Hello,
I know Im in iDVD6, but want to know if someone experienced the same problem, or if my problem is corrected in idvd6.
I exported a slide show in iP4 with about 600 photos in a QT file. I then put the that file into iDVD 4. But when I play the DVD in a commmercial DVD player, the photos "skip" between every transition/photos.
iP4, when exporting to QT, has its own default disolve transition between each slide, so there's no way to change that. I have in the past exported slide show to QT and imported to iDVD and played without any problem.
Anyone has experienced this problem and has a solution??
The slide show inidvd 6, may not be restricted to 99 photos anymore, but does it repeat the same song over an over? Cuz 600 photos sometimes require 5-6 songs..not to bore the audience!
an Apple store Genius told me it had to do with the way the file was exported in QT. Tried other format, but to no avail...
Thanks in advance about your replies!
michel

John,
I've used for 2-3 yrs a variation of what you suggested.
I exported a QT file #1 with a sequence of say 120 pics with one song, then trimmed the end so it ends with music. Then exported another sequence of photo as QT file #2, with another song.... etc
Then with QT pro, I joined all the different QT files #1, #2, etc (which had already their own songs imbedded into), used the copy and paste, then did a save as "self contained" file et voila I have an entire QT file slide show with more than 99 pics with multiple songs. It plays great onto the computer, but on a DVD and player...it skips!
The reason I like using ip4, is because the newer version of iP5 and 6, export to QT creating a much bigger file size (short of saying humongous) One of the reason, is because when using KB effect, it create a 30 frames per second just like IMovie does, hence making the file reallly big. The old iPhoto 4, exports only one jpg per photo, and reference to the first frame to display the subsequent frame, untill the next photo. So say for example, 2 sec in iPhoto5, would require 60 different separate frames/photos (of the same pic slightly different from one another- to create the KB effect). But in iP4, QT uses the photo once, and for frame 2 to 60 (2sec) , it only references to the first frame..... therefore keeping the file size small...... this way you can put more Slide show on a DVD.
Anyway I've sidetracked a little....
any other suggestions?
michel

Photoshop Elements 4 slide show pauses.

I must create a slide show in Photoshop Elements 4. I want to pause and speak to my audience, between slides, for three minutes, or four minutes, or five minutes, or longer. It seems that 'between slide transition times' are pre-determined by PSE4,, with 2 seconds, 4 seconds and up to a maximum of 120 seconds, pauses. Is there a way that I can determine the length of the pauses?
Yours sincerely, Cogleylane

Louis,
I hope you are happy with the decision to go with the Sony package. I really like the flexibility of both programs.
I'd be happy to answer some questions. I changed my Adobe forum profile so that you can see my e-mail address. I'll leave it on there for a day or so.
Have you tried the Sony website and forums?
http://www.sonymediasoftware.com/forums/default.asp
I have always found them helpful, much like this one.
I have to admit that my skills on DVD Architect Studio 3 are not as good as they are on Movie Studio 6. I cut my teeth on the first full blown version of DVD Architect [1.0]. DVD Architect Studio has so many more features and flexibility, it is amazing. The only bad thing about DVD Architect Studio that I can see is that it won't encode the audio in Dolby AC-3 format, which is the preferred format. If you use the audio defaults in the program, however, you will be fine unless you are trying to cram more than 60 minutes worth of stuff onto the DVD. Personally, I think that is bad practice anyway, because who wants to watch an hour of your slideshows!

Why Won't PreE Burn my Slide Show Project to a DVD?

I created a slide show using PE 6 and sent it to PreE 4. However, when I try to burn it to a DVD using PreE 4 it just quits on me? Then I can't even open PreE?? I really don't know what's happening?? My complete slide show is saved in PreE 4 and I can find it at adobe\Premiere Elements\4.0\ project name. However, when I try to open it nothing happens. I thought perhaps my slide show was too big for PreE but that doesn't appear to be the problem. My saved PreE 4 slideshow is 8.29 MB and PE 6 slideshow gives a play time of 56:43 Min after creation.
A standard DVD is at 120 minutes and 4.7 GB
Can anyone tell me what the devils happening here or at least give me some direction to solve this dilemna.
Thanks for any help provided.
Sanray19

The slideshow created in Photoshop Elements Slideshow Editor exists there as a creation and goes no where until you output it to something else. If your goal is a DVD-VIDEO version of your slideshow and you want to use Premiere Elements to generate the DVD-VIDEO, before Photoshop Elements 5/Premiere Elements 3, you had to output your slideshow as a file sized .wmv video and import that into Premiere Elements. The use of the .wmv limited the possibilities for further edits of the slideshow that arrived on the Premiere Elements Timeline as one whole video rather than individual photos. Further, there were those that questioned the use of the .wmv version for quality reasons. I never found that to be the case.
But, if you have the specific combinations of Photoshop Elements 5/Premiere Elements 3 OR Photoshop Elements 6/Premiere Elements 4 OR Photoshop Elements 7/Premiere Elements 7, you obtain the perk of being able to send your Photoshop Elements slideshow to Premiere Elements in a non wmv form which can be broken apart allowing for further significant edits. The keys to doing this are:
a. Specific sets 5/3 or 6/4 or 7/7
b. Use of the Photoshop Elements Slideshow Editor Output option of “Send to Premiere Elements” which then makes available the “Break Apart Photoshop Elements Slideshow” command in Premiere Elements (right click video on Timeline, select “Break Apart Photoshop Elements Slideshow”). If you had some mismatch of Photoshop Elements Premiere Elements versions, like 6/7, the Photoshop Elements Output option of “ Send to Premiere Elements” would be available, but once the slideshow got to Premiere Elements, the “Break Apart Photoshop Elements Slideshow” would not.
Immediately after the output is completed in the Media panel you will see:
a. Folder containing the individual photo and video assets
b. A file representing the intact slideshow in video form
On the Timeline you will see your intact slideshow video form.
The Time Stretch Tool is used to change duration. You can use:
a. (less precise) The Time Stretch Tool Icon above the Timeline. Click that, watch your mouse cursor turn into a vertical bar with a cross (diagonal arrow and red bar) superimposed, then click on drag end of image.
b. (more precise). The Time Stretch feature via right clicking the image on the Timeline, selecting Time Stretch, and typing in the duration.
c. in either case, any gaps created on the Timeline are gotten rid of by right clicking the gap and clicking on the “Delete and Close Gap” pop up.
When you go to decrease the duration or when you are changing the duration of an image at the end of the Timeline, everything will be going as you expected. HOWEVER, when it comes to increasing the duration or changing the duration of an image in the middle of the Timeline, you will need to move the images to make room for the expansion and then close the gaps.
Before I go on to some other things, I should go back to the Media panel and its contents immediately after receiving the Photoshop Elements Slideshow. You can open the folder with assets (photos & videos) in the Project Media View. If you right click one of the files, select Time Stretch, change the duration of the image, the duration of that file will be changed and be reflected if you drag that file from Project View Media area to the Timeline. BUT, this will not change the duration of that image which is already on the Timeline.
There are so many other aspects of this that I will save for another time. One of the things that we could talk about is creating slideshow and the DVD-VIDEO slideshow all within Premiere Elements and bring into play:
Premiere Elements’ Create Slideshow feature to set image duration OR transition duration all at one time
Changing the Premiere Elements default duration (5 sec) via Edit Menu/Preferences/General
Pans & Zooms with Edit Menu/Effects/Presets/Horizontal and Vertical Pans or Zooms as well as creating Pans & Zooms with keyframing.
I am probably running into the Flash Player and Premiere Pro Forum space by now. Please focus me in on your specific issues and I will continue with my what works for me comments.
ATR

How to prepare ppt slide show in jpanel

i was preapared that but it was displayed on desktop...but i want to display the slide show on jpanel.

i was write this code ..but it was some problem..
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* and open the template in the editor.
package ppt;
* @author jtangent02
import java.awt.BorderLayout;
import java.awt.Button;
import java.awt.Color;
import java.awt.Component;
import java.awt.Dimension;
import java.awt.FlowLayout;
import java.awt.Panel;
import java.awt.event.ActionEvent;
import java.awt.event.ActionListener;
import java.io.File;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;
import javax.swing.BorderFactory;
import javax.swing.DefaultListModel;
import javax.swing.ImageIcon;
import javax.swing.JButton;
import javax.swing.JFileChooser;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JLabel;
import javax.swing.JList;
import javax.swing.JPanel;
import javax.swing.JScrollPane;
import javax.swing.ListCellRenderer;
import javax.swing.ListSelectionModel;
import javax.swing.event.ListSelectionEvent;
import javax.swing.event.ListSelectionListener;
import javax.swing.filechooser.FileFilter;
public class SlideShow1 extends JFrame {
private JPanel contentPanel = null;
private JPanel displayPanel = null;
private JPanel viewPanel = null;
private JPanel buttonPanel = null;
private JButton buttonBrowse = null;
private JFileChooser browseFileChooser = null;
private JList slideImageList = null;
private JScrollPane imageListScrollPane = null;
private DefaultListModel listModel = null;
private JLabel picture = null;
private JLabel slide = null;
private JScrollPane pictureScrollPane = null;
private JScrollPane slideScrollPane = null;
private JButton first = null;
private JButton previous = null;
private JButton next = null;
private JButton last = null;
private JButton submit = null;
private File selectedFiles[] = null;
private int currentSlideIndex = 0;
private File firstImageFile = null;
private File previousImageFile = null;
private File nextImageFile = null;
private File lastImageFile = null;
private File submittedImageFile = null;
private List submittedImageFileList = new ArrayList();
public SlideShow1() {
super();
initialize();
private void initialize() {
System.out.println("Frame displayed");
this.setTitle("Slide Show");
this.setSize(875, 548);
this.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
contentPanel = new JPanel();
contentPanel.setLayout(null);
contentPanel.add(getDisplayPanel());
contentPanel.add(getViewPanel());
contentPanel.add(getButtonPanel());
this.setContentPane(contentPanel);
this.setVisible(true);
private JPanel getDisplayPanel() {
displayPanel = new JPanel();
displayPanel.setLayout(null);
displayPanel.setBounds(0, 0, 350, 522);
displayPanel.setBorder(BorderFactory.createEtchedBorder());
picture = new JLabel();
pictureScrollPane = new JScrollPane(picture);
pictureScrollPane.setBounds(0, 0, 350, 480);
displayPanel.add(pictureScrollPane);
buttonBrowse = new JButton();
buttonBrowse.setText("Browse");
buttonBrowse.setBounds(125, 490, 80, 20);
browseFileChooser = new JFileChooser();
browseFileChooser.addChoosableFileFilter(new PPTFilter());
browseFileChooser.addChoosableFileFilter(new ImageFilter());
browseFileChooser.setMultiSelectionEnabled(true);
buttonBrowse.addActionListener(new BrowseButtonListener());
displayPanel.add(buttonBrowse);
return displayPanel;
private class BrowseButtonListener implements ActionListener {
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent arg0) {
int returnVal = browseFileChooser.showOpenDialog(SlideShow1.this);
if (returnVal == JFileChooser.APPROVE_OPTION) {
first.setVisible(true);
previous.setVisible(false);
next.setVisible(true);
last.setVisible(true);
submit.setVisible(true);
selectedFiles = browseFileChooser.getSelectedFiles();
currentSlideIndex = 0;
firstImageFile = selectedFiles[currentSlideIndex];
putImageInLabel(firstImageFile,slide);
submittedImageFile = null;
submittedImageFileList = new ArrayList();
} else {
System.out.println("Cancelling the action");
private class ImageFilter extends FileFilter {
public final static String JPEG = "jpeg";
public final static String JPG = "jpg";
public final static String GIF = "gif";
public boolean accept(File f) {
if (f.isDirectory()) {
return true;
String extension = getExtension(f);
if (extension != null) {
if (extension.equals(JPEG) || extension.equals(JPG)
|| extension.equals(GIF)) {
return true;
} else {
return false;
return false;
public String getExtension(File f) {
String ext = null;
String s = f.getName();
int i = s.lastIndexOf('.');
if (i > 0 && i < s.length() - 1) {
ext = s.substring(i + 1).toLowerCase();
return ext;
public String getDescription() {
return "Images(*.gif, *.jpeg, *.jpg)";
private class PPTFilter extends FileFilter {
public final static String PPT = "ppt";
public boolean accept(File f) {
if (f.isDirectory()) {
return true;
String extension = getExtension(f);
if (extension != null) {
if (extension.equals(PPT)) {
return true;
} else {
return false;
return false;
public String getExtension(File f) {
String ext = null;
String s = f.getName();
int i = s.lastIndexOf('.');
if (i > 0 && i < s.length() - 1) {
ext = s.substring(i + 1).toLowerCase();
return ext;
public String getDescription() {
return "Presentations(*.ppt)";
private void putImageInLabel(File imageFile, JLabel label)
System.out.println("Image File is "
+ imageFile.getName());
String selectedFilePath = imageFile.getAbsolutePath();
String selectedFileName = imageFile.getName();
String extension = selectedFileName.substring(selectedFileName.lastIndexOf("."));
if (extension.equalsIgnoreCase(".ppt")) {
System.out.println("Image file is ppt"
+ imageFile.getName());
label.setIcon(null);
label.setText("Displaying Presentation...");
Thread pptRunnerThead = new Thread(new PPTRunner(selectedFilePath));
pptRunnerThead.start();
} else {
ImageIcon newImage = new ImageIcon(selectedFilePath);
label.setIcon(newImage);
label.setPreferredSize(new Dimension(newImage.getIconWidth(),
newImage.getIconHeight()));
label.revalidate();
public class ImageListSelectionListener implements ListSelectionListener {
public void valueChanged(ListSelectionEvent e) {
if (e.getValueIsAdjusting())
return;
JList list = (JList) e.getSource();
if (list.isSelectionEmpty()) {
slide.setIcon(null);
} else {
File selectedImage = (File) list.getSelectedValue();
System.out.println("Selected Image is "
+ selectedImage.getName());
String selectedFilePath = selectedImage.getAbsolutePath();
String selectedFileName = selectedImage.getName();
String extension = selectedFileName.substring(selectedFileName.lastIndexOf("."));
if (extension.equalsIgnoreCase(".ppt")) {
System.out.println("Selected Image is ppt"
+ selectedImage.getName());
slide.setIcon(null);
slide.setText("Displaying Presentation...");
Thread pptRunnerThead = new Thread(new PPTRunner(selectedFilePath));
pptRunnerThead.start();
} else {
ImageIcon newImage = new ImageIcon(selectedFilePath);
slide.setIcon(newImage);
slide.setPreferredSize(new Dimension(newImage.getIconWidth(),
newImage.getIconHeight()));
slide.revalidate();
private class PPTRunner implements Runnable{
String pptFile = null;
PPTRunner(String pptFile)
this.pptFile = pptFile;
public void run() {
try {
Runtime r = Runtime.getRuntime();
String[] command = {
"C:\\Program Files\\Microsoft Office\\Office12\\POWERPNT.EXE",
"/s", pptFile};
r.exec(command);
} catch (Exception ex) {
System.out.println(ex);
private JPanel getViewPanel() {
viewPanel = new JPanel();
viewPanel.setLayout(new BorderLayout());
viewPanel.setVisible(true);
viewPanel.setBounds(350, 0, 520, 480);
viewPanel.setBorder(BorderFactory.createEtchedBorder());
slide = new JLabel();
slideScrollPane = new JScrollPane(slide);
viewPanel.add(slideScrollPane, BorderLayout.CENTER);
return viewPanel;
private JPanel getButtonPanel() {
buttonPanel = new JPanel();
buttonPanel.setLayout(null);
buttonPanel.setVisible(true);
buttonPanel.setBounds(350, 480, 520, 42);
buttonPanel.setBorder(BorderFactory.createEtchedBorder());
ButtonPanelListener buttonPanelListener = new ButtonPanelListener();
first = new JButton("|<<");
first.setBounds(20, 10, 80, 20);
buttonPanel.add(first);
first.addActionListener(buttonPanelListener);
first.setVisible(false);
previous = new JButton("<");
previous.setBounds(120, 10, 80, 20);
buttonPanel.add(previous);
previous.addActionListener(buttonPanelListener);
previous.setVisible(false);
next = new JButton(">");
next.setBounds(220, 10, 80, 20);
buttonPanel.add(next);
next.addActionListener(buttonPanelListener);
next.setVisible(false);
last = new JButton(">>|");
last.setBounds(320, 10, 80, 20);
buttonPanel.add(last);
last.addActionListener(buttonPanelListener);
last.setVisible(false);
submit = new JButton("SUBMIT");
submit.setBounds(420, 10, 80, 20);
buttonPanel.add(submit);
submit.addActionListener(buttonPanelListener);
submit.setVisible(false);
return buttonPanel;
private class ButtonPanelListener implements ActionListener {
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent ae) {
System.out.println("in ButtonPanelListener.actionPerformed");
if ((JButton)ae.getSource() == first) {
System.out.println("Clicked on first");
currentSlideIndex = 0;
firstImageFile = selectedFiles[currentSlideIndex];
putImageInLabel(firstImageFile,slide);
if (previous.isVisible()) {
previous.setVisible(false);
if (!next.isVisible()) {
next.setVisible(true);
} else if((JButton)ae.getSource() == previous) {
System.out.println("Clicked on previous");
if (currentSlideIndex > 0) {
currentSlideIndex = currentSlideIndex - 1;
previousImageFile = selectedFiles[currentSlideIndex];
putImageInLabel(previousImageFile,slide);
if(currentSlideIndex == 0){
previous.setVisible(false);
if (!next.isVisible()) {
next.setVisible(true);
} else if((JButton)ae.getSource() == next) {
System.out.println("Clicked on next");
if (currentSlideIndex < selectedFiles.length - 1) {
currentSlideIndex = currentSlideIndex + 1;
nextImageFile = selectedFiles[currentSlideIndex];
putImageInLabel(nextImageFile,slide);
if(currentSlideIndex == selectedFiles.length - 1){
next.setVisible(false);
if (!previous.isVisible()) {
previous.setVisible(true);
} else if((JButton)ae.getSource() == last) {
System.out.println("Clicked on last");
currentSlideIndex = selectedFiles.length - 1;
lastImageFile = selectedFiles[currentSlideIndex];
putImageInLabel(lastImageFile,slide);
if (!previous.isVisible()) {
previous.setVisible(true);
if (next.isVisible()) {
next.setVisible(false);
} else if((JButton)ae.getSource() == submit) {
System.out.println("Clicked on submit");
submittedImageFile = selectedFiles[currentSlideIndex];
if (!submittedImageFileList.contains(submittedImageFile)) {
submittedImageFileList.add(submittedImageFile);
putImageInLabel(submittedImageFile,picture);
System.out.println("Printing submitted file list");
for (int i = 0; i < submittedImageFileList.size(); i++) {
File currentSubmittedFile = (File)submittedImageFileList.get(i);
System.out.println(currentSubmittedFile.getName());
System.out.println("Printing ended.");
public static void main(String[] args) {
SlideShow1 slideShow = new SlideShow1();
}

Has anyone had this issue. I created my song from itunes to garage band, took my iphotos to create a slide show and when I burned to idvd there are several pauses during playback?

Has anyone had this issue. I created my song from itunes to garage band, took my iphotos to create a slide show and when I burned to idvd there are several pauses during playback?

Hi
SlideShow in iDVD has a 99 photo limit - more than this and all sorts of error occures.
One can have more than one SlideShow on a DVD = X times 99 photos.
or assemble SlideShows in a movie editor (no limit at least not under 650 photos)
(only limit is Time in iDVD (movie time + MENU time --- 60 min or 120 min on SL-DVD and about twice on DL.-DVD )
I use
• iMovie up to HD6 - or -
• FinalCut any version
As they will give a better quality than iMovie'08 or 09 or 11 can do.
Yours Bengt W

Iphoto Slide Show - Video/Audio Out to TV

I am interested in outputting my iPhoto slide shows to my home television, show I can show my slide shows on a bigger display. Is there a cable that can be used to connect my computer with my TV? I am using a PowerBook G4 15". Thanks.

Marc
I used to have the G4 PB and the answer is, yes you can. However as I don't have it anymore I can't be specific about the connections. Check on the G4PB list
http://discussions.apple.com/category.jspa?categoryID=120
Depending on your model.
Regards
TD

DVD Slide shows only auto-cycle 100 slides; then aborts. What's the fix??

I burned 2800 jpeg Photos from my IMac onto a DVD using iDVD and set it up for auto-play, so that the 2800-frame slide show would autostart running and advance to a new photo every 3 seconds as soon as loaded into the DVD player in our TV room.
On my Panasonic DVD player, however, I can only view the first 100 or so slides automatically before the show aborts and the player defaults back to its home screen as if it had completed the slide show.
Why will my DVD player only show the first 100 of 2800 slides on the DVD before quitting ? Is it a limitation of the DVD player hardware or software or have I misconfigured iDVD ?
If I want to view all 2800 slides on the DVD, I can do so only by holding down the forward and reverse buttons on the player's remote control to jump forward or backward to the next or previous slides. Only then will it display beyond the first 100 or so slides and run to the end. In auto advance mode, it chokes after the first 100 frames and quits on me.
As long as I manually advance to the next frame, I am fine...but the player-DVD combination will only auto-advance the first 100 before the player hardware/software crashes.
Any ideas how to fix ????
Intel Imac 2.1 GHz - 20" Mac OS X (10.4.8) 1 Gb RAM

Thanks. This is very clumsy to work around but maybe the just released Toast 8 has a workaround that iDvd does not. Trick is I guess to get 28 tracks onto a single DVD - each with 99 (slides) chapters. Is this doable ??
Surely there is a simple way to copy 2800 files - maybe just a simple file copy, onto a blank CD or DVD and have a CD/DVD player`read them and auto advance.
This is very frustrating because these sophisticated software programs are good at doing fancy things with movies but can't produce a simple slide show with more than 99 frames.
Michael,
The basic problem is iDVD treats slides in a
slideshow as chapters and a DVD track is limited to
99 chapters per track. Prior to iDVD 6, slideshows
were limited to 99 slides. iDVD 6 added a 'fix' to
allow several such slideshow tracks to be linked
together. HOWEVER, not all DVD players (as you have
found) want to recognize the linking and will quit
(or drop the audio) after the 99th slide.
Any ideas how to fix ????
There is nothing you can do in iDVD to change this.
There are some DVD players that will play through
all he images - you can take you DVD to a 'big-box'
store with a lot of DVD players on display and see
if you can find a player that will play all the
slides.
OR
You can create your slideshow as a movie in iMove,
although your 2800 slides at 3 seconds per slide
would create a movie that is 140 minutes long, and
this exceeds the 120 minute limit of what can be put
on a single layer DVD with iDVD.
F Shippey

Can I export (burn) more than one slide show to the same DVD

Can I export (burn) more than one slide show I created in iPhoto to the same DVD, and if yes, how?

Yes. If you're using iDVD export the slideshow out of iPhoto at 480p size and drag it into an open iDVD menu window, being careful to avoid any drop zones. iDVD can handle up to 120 minutes of playing time (movies plus menus) on a single layer DVD disk.
Follow this workflow to help assure the best qualty 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.
OT

How can I control the music that plays during Apple TV photo slide shows?

I don't want to make my parents listen to Breaking Benjamin music as they watch my photo slide shows on Apple TV. Need something more sedate. But if a B.B. song is in my iTunes music library, it is a candidate for random selection as background music for my slide shows. How do I control what music plays during Apple TV photo slide shows?

What I find is really silly, is the fact the music video's are listed under that artists albums in the Music menu. And when you go into the video 'album' (called 'Unknown' unless you change it) there is an option to shuffle the tracks. Clicking this just results in an error message. So, they should either remove that option if it is a video album, or, better yet, GET IT TO WORK. So silly of them to omit this.
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I created a slide show in imovie for my daughters 21st with voice overs from friends and family which was all working fine but now the voice recordings are not playing at all. Obviously some setting has changed but I can't find which one.

I created a slide show in imovie for my daughters 21st with voice overs from friends and family which was all working fine but now the voice recordings are not playing at all. Obviously some setting has changed but I can't find which one.

I created a slide show in imovie for my daughters 21st with voice overs from friends and family which was all working fine but now the voice recordings are not playing at all. Obviously some setting has changed but I can't find which one.

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