Easy captions for slideshows

I am not using iPhoto 09 yet, but people are always asking me how do you create a slideshow DVD that looks great and is easy to do - catch is that everybody wants to add titles and captions. Has Apple added this feature to iPhoto 09? I know I can go into Photoshop, or another image editor and add a caption to the image, but for most people that's just not an option. iPhoto should be easy enough that grandmas can do it. My mother is the main one that's been asking me of late. I finally convinced her to buy an iMac, and I'm already stressing how I'm going to show her to add captions to photos so that they show up in a slideshow DVD. Any ideas out there? Thanks so much.

Welcome to the Apple Discussions. Create the slideshow in iDVD from imported stills and you'll have the option to add Titles/subtitles to any photo you would like.
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The downside to this method is that you can't have the Ken Burns effect in the slideshow. The upside is that, IMO, the resulting image quality of the slideshow is better.
If you have access to a copy of iMovie 6 HD you an create the slideshow in it with titles and subtitles and much better control of any added music than the latest iMovie version.
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can you make captions for a slideshow? otherwise how can i rename the photo so that i can select view titles in the slideshow and use it as a caption?

Jim lo:
Welcome to the Apple Discussions. You can't make captions with iPhoto. You can edit the title of a photo by selecting it and then going to the Info window at the bottom of the Source pane, the "i" button, clicking on the title field and enter what text you'd like.
If you plan on using the slideshow in iDVD then those titles will not show as they will be lost in the "overscan" area that is common to all movies played on TV. You can create the slideshow in iMovie and have lots of control over titles and subtitles and greater control of the audio track, cut, fade in/out, etc.
Do you Twango?

I am using my Description as the caption on Slideshow. I ticked the "Show Title Slide" button and iPhoto physically copied the description on the first slide onto the end of every other description. I can find no way of removing them other than by hand.

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Contact information Dennis [email protected]
Previous contact information with your organization (DURIM):
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DURIM - Okay. I would expect the "Cache Warning" message because your default directories would not be the same as the ones in the settings file I generated.
If you go back to the "7.0" directory and open the "Logs" folder, can you copy the "Audition Log.txt" file and send it as an attachment to [email protected]? We'll take a look in that logfile and see if it gives us more information about why this is failing now.
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More clear question for slideshow help - Kin?

Hi Kin,
You have been very helpful in getting me this far - I know
this last detail would be a very easy thing for you to do.
I tried to get it to work for the dssmTitle by adding another
dssmTitle.addObserver
http://www.tsgraphics.net/slideshow_test/
The mouseover function is fine the way it is. It's how it
behaves during the slideshow that is a little wierd - it just sits
on the first story. It would be great if it switched to each story
like the small nav at the bottom highlights to each corresponding
nav to its story during the slideshow.
I hope this is more clear.
Thanks!
TS

Hi TS,
So it sounds like you want to change the current row of
dschapters and stop the slide show on mouesover, and then re-enable
the slideshow on mouseout right?
Try something like this:
var gTimerID = 0;
var gInterval = 3000;
function StartSlideShow()
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gTimerID = setInterval(function(){
dschapters.setCurrentRowNumber((dschapters.getCurrentRowNumber() +
1) % dschapters.getRowCount()); }, gInterval);
function StopSlideShow()
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if (nt == "onPostLoad")
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spry:repeatchildren="dschapters" spry:choose="choose">
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id="nav2" class="currentChapter" spry:setrow="dschapters"
spry:hover="hoverRow"><img src="{thPhoto}"
onmouseover="StopSlideShow();
dschapters.setCurrentRow('{ds_RowID}');"
onmouseout="StartSlideShow();" /> </div>
<div spry:default="default" id="nav2"
spry:setrow="dschapters" spry:hover="hoverRow"><img
src="{thPhoto}" onmouseover="StopSlideShow();
dschapters.setCurrentRow('{ds_RowID}')"
onmouseout="StartSlideShow();" /></div>
</div>
On a side note, if you are trying to bring your question to
the top of the forum again, post a message in your original thread
... that is don't create a new thread each time ... that way the
context of your questions is preserved for others to read. If you
post new threads each time, folks have to search for your previous
posts/threads to get context.
Thanks,
--== Kin ==--

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I have a macmini connected to my LCD TV. Before when I used to use iPhoto I could share my library on the network, and launch iPhoto on the tv to display slideshows from iPhoto on my macbook pro.
Is there any way that is as easy or similar easy to display slideshows/photos on the TV/macmini with Aperture?

andreas123 wrote:
I have a macmini connected to my LCD TV. Before when I used to use iPhoto I could share my library on the network, and launch iPhoto on the tv to display slideshows from iPhoto
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