Audio in Slideshow

Wouldn't it be nice to be able to add multiple audio files directly in@to the slideshow....Right now we have to select the files and add them together using a separate audio editing program before we can tether it to the slideshow.......

You are welcome. It seems that the slideshow module has been treated sort of as an afterthought since it was first introduced. There needs to be a lot of things added, including multiple music tracks. But the slideshow module just seems to be there and finished as far as Adobe is concerned.

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Idvd fit audio to slideshow

When I import or create a slideshow with music in Idvd, I choose the fit audio to slideshow option. The timing of the specific slides with the music has been choreographed, especially the conclusion of both photos and music at the end.As an Iphoto slideshow,a Quicktime movie, etc...the product is perfect. However, once in idvd the sldies will continue past the conclusion of the music.Even deleting thumbnails does not solve the issue.This wasn't an issue until Leopard upgrade.Any thoughts?

I had a simialr issue today as well which you may wish to read about as to how I resolved (or worked around) this issue.
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=8715009#8715009

My new MacBook will not play TV shows, or connect audio with slideshows

I just bought a black 2 gigHZ MacBook and when starting it up used a firewire to transfer everything from my Intel iMac, as prompted. Seemed to work fine, except: the TV shows in iTunes will not play in Front Row on my MacBook. And in iTunes they will play as video only: no sound.
Also, I tried to make a slideshow in iPhoto, but I cannot attach a soundtrack from my iTunes plibrary: again, no audio, though the slides play.
Odd thing is: I can play commercial DVDs in Front Row. No problem. Likewise with iTunes music library. The ptoblem seems limited to TV shows I have downloaded from iTunes music store, and to the slide show/no audio issues.

hello,
did you try to authorize you Macbook with your itunes login and password ??
this must be done manually and is not transferred automatically with other datas as you can authorize up to 5 computers !
if you didn't already do this, give it a try !

How can I fit audio to slideshow?

Can someone help me? This issue has been keeping me up the last few nights. I originally created a slideshow in iDVD for my son's baseball team and handed everyone DVDS as a memoir. Well, there was an issue with the music cutting out for a brief second but would continue playing. That was fine until after playing it 3 times the DVD does not work at all on people's DVD players. I read in one of the discussions that this happens after the 99th image so the solution would be to bring it into iMovie which I did. I brought in 194 photos and I have 2 songs. The problem is getting the audio to fit the length of the slideshow! It fit fine from beginning to end in iDVD. The music is only good for 3/4 of the images. I have tried extending the edge of the music bar, but it won't let me lengthen it. It will only make it shorter. Please help, I would like to get these poor kids working DVDs of their last baseball season?
PowerMac G5 Mac OS X (10.4.9)
PowerMac G5 Mac OS X (10.4.9)

So the duration of your more photos exceeds your music? And you don't want to include another song?
If you don't currently have any transtions, you could add these between each of your photos to shorten the total slide show. This will make for a smoother looking slide show (if you like the effect). A transition like Cross Disolve will shorten the duration of photos as each transition causes the photos to overlap by the amount of the transition. For example if you add a one second Cross Disolve transition to 200 photos (of say, photos with 5 seconds duration each), you would shorten the total duration of your slide show by approximately 400 seconds (if I recall correctly: 1 second transition x two photos x 200 total photos - minus one transition each for the first and last photo).
Please note, the duration of the photo has to longer than the than the duration of the transitions. E.g., if you have photos of five seconds duration and then add the 1 second transition between each photo, this cuts a second off by overlapping each end of each photo and the resulting photo ends up being three seconds in duration. Test it on a limited number of photos to see if you like it and what he impact on duration is.
I then add or delete photos as necessary and/or edit the song. Hope this helps.

Problem adding audio to slideshow

I created a slideshow in Elements 8 with no problem. I added several tracks of audio that fit well. I learned that I needed to have Elements Premier to publish it to a DVD. I downloaded the trials of Photoshop Elements 10 and Photoshop Elements Premier 10 and created the slide show again. However I can not get the audio correct. When I add the first song it takes up the entire slide show. I add three more songs and they are just added on past the slide show which is 16 minutes long. When I click to match the slides to the audio it tells me that the show is over 24 hours long. I have unchecked the option to repeat the sound track until the end and cannot figure out what I need to do. I know it is something probably simple but I can't seem to figure it out. The audio files are MP3. Can anyone tell me how to get the program to accept the song for its correct length?

There are actually a number of ways (at least 4) to create a slideshow in Premiere Elements, and without knowing which of those methods you're using it's hard to comment specifically.
But if you're building your slideshow on the Premiere Elements timeline, first make sure you're in Timeline mode. Then, when you add your audio track, hold down the Ctrl key. This will allow you to place the audio on a parallel track, below the video/slideshow. If you don't hold down the Ctrl key, the audio will be inserted -- which means that it will drop onto the timeline and push all of the video/slideshow to the right -- which is what sounds like is happening to you.
BTW, the trial of the program has a number of limitations, including limitations on its ability to render. In other words, you probably won't be able to output a video or DVD of the slideshow you create in the trial version of the program. Just a word of warning before you put too much time into it.
And I would also recommend you convert that MP3 into a WAV file using a program like Audacity (free). It will save you some headaches in the long run. Also, when you see red lines above the clips on your timeline, press Enter to render the timeline. (When rendered, the red lines will turn green.)
Lots more headache-saving tips like this in my books, if you're interested.
http://Muvipix.com/pe10.php

Music DVD .. 10 Hours of Audio? Slideshow??

Roxio Toast has a Music DVD option that can add hours of audio on a single DVD.
I tried to look for info on how to do this in Encore .. but there is nothing.
As a slideshow, my test only had three audio files .. which took up 1/4 of the disk.
What is the smallest audio file to import into Encore? I used a mp3. I saw a transcoding menu pop-up that converted the m.mp3 to ac3
Can I save space and steps to do this?
Anybody make a Music DVD before?

Music DVD - how I have come to loathe that description, along with the equally ghastly "Audio DVD".
Both usually mean DVD-Video containing music, and should definitely not get confused with DVD-Audio although well authored DVD-A discs will also play on video only players.
Pharther Phurther wrote:
Roxio Toast has a Music DVD option that can add hours of audio on a single DVD.
I tried to look for info on how to do this in Encore .. but there is nothing.
As a slideshow, my test only had three audio files .. which took up 1/4 of the disk.
What is the smallest audio file to import into Encore? I used a mp3. I saw a transcoding menu pop-up that converted the m.mp3 to ac3
Can I save space and steps to do this?
Anybody make a Music DVD before?
Frequently - Encore is somewhat limited in this respect because the DVD specifications were not really set up with audio playback as the primary stream type so it's always a bit of a fudge getting things right as changing any video or graphic asset forces the audio to change right along with it.
I suspect that the Roxio app you mention is cheating by what it is not telling you - reading it carefully I see no mention of any visuals or imagery being used, so I think it is simply taking one timeline of audio and matching it up to a blank video stream, and allowing you to add markers as chapter marks.
The result would be many hours of audio to blank screens....
Launch Encore.
At the splash, choose "New Project" and set according to TV Standard - PAL if in Europe, NTSC just about everywhere else.
Set "Default Transcode Settings" to suit - automatic transcoding to a maximum of 6 mbps (just to be safe) and the audio form to Dolby Digital.
To get this done the best way is to get all your audio imported into a project first. I would not use MP3 if I could use anything else as it is a form that is already heavily data reduced, and is also not a DVD legal format so must be changed into one that is. Encore will do this automatically to either LPCM or Dolby Digital (depending on your project transcode settings) by decoding the MP3 back to 32-bit floating point PCM and from there into Dolby Digital (ac3) at 192 kbps which is about the same as the average mp3 file. Downside here is that a heavily reduced file just got even more heavily reduced so quality loss is a very high possibility as despite the claims of Roxio, Dolby Digital is not particularly high quality. But I digress.
Now, you can have up to 99 titles in any DVD, each one with up to 99 chapters.
So, put any imported asset to a new timeline, and add chapter markers as needed.
Do not add any video or graphical assets as this will trigger video encoding which will greatly reduce the available space.
You will need eiother a basic menu, or else you will have to link everything together in the flowchart, making sure you set a FIRST PLAY and to link the end action of one timeline to the start of the next or you will get a coaster. It might be a good plan to get a +RW disc and practise this a few times.
Now - adding any still images is difficult. If the audio is segued, you cannot do a slideshow - even with Scenarist! All you can do if the audio is segued (a live performance, or a continuous piece) is either not have chapter points or have one "slideshow" per piece. You can only do this in a standard timeline set to blank (not black) video.
Compile and test - you will have a disc full of straight audio.

Need Help with Skipping Audio in Slideshows

I'm trying to burn a simple slideshow with iDVD of about 80 pictures, with an overlay .mp3 playing. I made the slideshow, and during the preview, the audio plays fine. But after I burned it, the mp3 skips slightly while the pictures change.
I initially thought the pix were too big, so I scaled them down from 400 to about 150 KB. But the second one had the same problem.
Is there anything I can do to fix this? It seems like what might be causing it is the page flip transition between pix. Is there any way I can keep the transition and get rid of the skipping? Thanks so much for the help.
I'm trying to finish this project ASAP, so thanks for the urgent response with any suggestions.
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The disk image with DVD Player worked flawlessly.
That's what to expect from a burned DVD.
This just keeps getting more weird.
Not to me now that you're providing more info.
Two items of interest:
1.) I then took the DVD to another player in my house and it worked great.
Not all players handle recordable DVDs very well. Especially if they're older than a couple of years. I've had the worst permormance from Toshiba.
2.) The DVDs are DVD-R, Memorex.
TDK and Memorex have BAD track records here.
I recommend a disk image burned to Verbatim DVD-R at 4X or slower using Toast or Disk Utility.
David Pogue also recommends Verbatim on page 356 of his latest book:
iMovie HD & iDVD 6: The Missing Manual
Quoting David: "Cheaper brands don't use the same amount of organic dyes and are more likely to suffer premature deaths."

How to delete previously recorded audio in slideshow

My recorded slideshow audio comes out with previously recorded audio intact (like with an echo) . Choosing "Record from Beginning" made no difference. Clearing recording made no difference either.
Can anyone help? Thank you

Here is a manual that may help:
http://help.apple.com/imovie/ipad/1.4/index.html

Adjusting Audio in Slideshow

I'm trying to adjust the video in an Apple-Themed slideshow, and cannot seem to find a way to maintain the main audio track volume and reduce the inserted video down to zero volume. I can see how it's done in a custom slideshow, but can't find how to do it when using one of Apple's themes. Using Aperture 3.
Can anyone assist?
Thanks
Darryn

For the record, I just rendered from AE as a WAV which worked, but it was as loud as before I changed the waveform there, too. HELP!

Adding audio to slideshows using Elements 11 and itunes.

Upgraded to Elements 11 from Elements 9
Running Windows 7
I am doing a slideshow and would like to add audio from my itunes library. When I click to add audio and browse my itunes library, nothing shows after I click on the album. In an older version, I would change the file to a WAV file and it would insert fine. The new itunes does not let me do that anymore onlyl to an AAC file (not sure what that is ) when I try that they say it is protected and can't change it. How can I add audio files to my slide show using itunes?
Thanks

Once, iTunes did not have a way to get their music into programs, like PrE, at least not directly.
Back then, the workflow was to go to iTunes, create a Playlist for the necessary iTunes music, then burn THAT to an Audio CD. Once done, one would take that CD into a program, like the free Audacity, to rip the CDA format, then Save_As WAV, choosing PMC/WAV @ 48KHz 16-bit. Those WAV files were then Imported into PrE.
At some point in time, they relaxed things a bit, and many had no issues with a direct Import from iTunes.
Now sure what they are doing now, but many like using music from other sources, rather than iTunes.
Neale has linked to a conversion application, however I have never used it. OTOH, if Neale recommends it, then it should work just fine.
Also, according to Adobe: http://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop-elements/kb/supported-file-formats-premiere-elements.html, AAC is a supported Audio Format.
As I seldom use any music from other sources, beyond SmartSound, I have not stayed current on how iTunes works.
Good luck,
Hunt

Adding audio to slideshow in PSE8

I am new to Adobe . I am trying to make slideshows and when I try to add audio from anywhere I get the following message:
Ubable to add the audio file....... system does not have the required compresser/decompresser(codec) installed.
What does this mean and how do I fix it so I can add audio to my slideshow?

For starters, I suggest that you post the file type of this audio file and describe how you obtained this file.
This info may give a forum participant a clue to why you have a problem. For example, if it is a downloaded file with digital rights management, I don;t think that the PSE slideshow will allow its use.
An additional suggestion is to try to Import this audio file to the Organizer. Now you may get the same no codec error message as you did for the slideshow, but knowing what happens on the Import may help to isolate the slideshow problem.
Perhaps an analogy to describe a codec is that it is a "road map" that is used to interpret and processes (decode) a specific type of audio file. It is a finer differentiation that just the file type identified to Windows.
Here is a link to wikipedia for more information
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audio_codec

Audio authorization trouble when adding audio to slideshow

I recently started a slideshow on iDVD '08, which by the way is AMAZING, except when I try to drag and drop a purchased audio file from the media browser 2 the editing window, it asks me to authorize the file through iTunes. Thing is, I've authorized my entire music library already, so what gives? I authorize the song file, try to play it in the slideshow, but I get the same message asking me to authorize the song file, again! Help!

Seems to be a recent bug that is effecting many people. The short term work around until Apple fixes the issue is to put your purchased songs in a playlist, burn that playlist out to an Audio CD (a CD-RW might be good for this if you need to do it often), then re-import the song from the burned CD in any format you fish, although AIFF might be best for iDVD use.
Patrick

ITunes Audio on Slideshow DVD

Tried to burn a dvd of a slideshow created originally in iPhoto that had audio I'd downloaded from iTunes. Got error message that audio would only play back on authorized machine. Is it even possible to use music downloaded from iTunes when burning a dvd from a slideshow, or am I limited to music that I own rather than license? Thanks for any thoughts or suggestions.
iMac Mac OS X (10.3.9)

Music you download from iTunes is in .m4p format and is recognized by the ilife apps as copyrighted. To get around this, burn the songs onto a CD and then "re-rip" them off of the CD back into itunes. This should remove the copyright tag and make them .mp3 and they should work. I have used this technique several times and it has always worked. Good luck.

Deleting Audio in Slideshow CS3

Hi,
I've had a good search so I'm assuming its me doing something wrong.
I'm using Encore CS3 and have created a slideshow. However I want to remove one of the audio tracks and insert another one.
I'd guess that I would highlight the track and press delete, or drag the audio file onto the "trash" symbol.
However, both of these options don't work.
I've noticed this in other project and recreated the slide show previously.
Is this a know problem or am I doing something wrong?
Many Thanks for any pointers.
Lee

How do I delete or substitute an audio track from a slideshow created in Photoshop Elements 6? Unlike ProShow Gold's slideshow editing of audio tracks, in Elements 6 I do not even see the audio track displayed anywhere...in my show I added several of the stock audio tracks contained in Elements 6, but there appears to be no timeline audio track display, or other way to use the editor button to change or delete an audio track. Advice?

"Persistent" audio in slideshow with Manual transitions

What I want:
Add music to a slideshow, which will loop as the slideshow plays;
AND
Slide duration = Manual
WITH
Dissolve transition.
Is this possible?
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.
Thanks in advance.

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?
It automatically becomes a fit to audio slideshow.
Click Here
Can't do this within iDvd via the traditional approach of making a slideshow within iDvd only (sorry). I'm assuming you already know how to make a slideshow advance manually with dissolve as the transition.
Here's what I suggest if iDvd'09 is the only app at your disposal currently.
Workaround: Go ahead and make the manual slideshow normally (no audio). Now add any music files you wish to the dvd rom section of the dvd. If you plan to use the laptop as the presentation hardware connected to an LCD projector to TV out; then launch iTunes also from the music files contained within the dvd rom section and then go back to iDvd slideshow feature and play your manual slideshow as you wish while music loops in the background. In other words, you'll have to use iTunes and iDvd simultaneously to meet your objective as stated above.
If you'd like I can test this feature later w/in DVDSP.
http://www.apple.com/finalcutstudio/dvdstudiopro/intuitive-design-environment.ht ml
Might take me a while to post the results though. Roxio Toast might also be worth looking into for slideshows.
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