Blank slides in DVD slide show

When I burn a slide show, as I have twice, blank slids appear randomly in the show. If I reverse the show they don't appear but in the forward moce they just pop-up in a random fashon.
Madeleine

I too have been plagued by the blank slides in my IDVD project. I have deleted my project and started from scratch - didn't work. I have also experienced general bad performance where the applications have unexpected locked up on me.
I have been an avid MAC/ILife lover for more than 3 years, but ILife 08 has been nothing short of frustrating. I am online today trying to research some of my issues. I'm finished with 08 until Apple cleans it up. Its time to unistall it and go back to 06 so that I can complete some of my projects.
Help us out here Apple.

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thanks
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spec,
sorry in advance for the folllowing tech-bla-bla....
... I'm selling these to clients and can't really sell them marked up photos...
ehm, you're posting in iDVD; iDVD is an encoding, authoring and burning app to create videoDVD, meaning: video, displaying on TV =>interlaced, 640x480, wacky NTSC (apologizes to US citizens...)…
selling PHOTOS that way??
a videoDVD from a photographer as "the map", a portfolio... sure! impressive music, sleezy transitions to some acid-jazz… all that understood & often seen... but SELLING in means of transport this way?
no way.
using tools as Toast allows to you create a video and a data partition on one single dvd-r; you could even "password protect" such a data section (not with Toast, other workflow...)...
soooo.....
stamp a FAT and glowing "this photo belongs to spectorphotography" ... ok, somethin' shorter... and forget the glow.... on every pic in SLIDESHOW; but, please, sell a HiRes version to your clients, ... besides: how shall they "grab" the pics from videoDVD? as screen-grabs??
make watermarks
create a data partition...
sorry for ranting <breathless> ;-))))
hopefully still helpful....?

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.
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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.
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Try this article:
<http://help.adobe.com/en_US/elementsorganizer/using/WS8346320B-3F64-46f6-AE4B-9FF4D934DB36 _WIN.html>
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Name : HL-DT-ST DVDRW GWA4080M
Type : Disk
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