Editing audio on idvd

I am making a slide show of about 300 vacation pictures. I made a play list on Itunes and added it to the slide show. One of the songs is a live version with a lengthy lead in. I adjusted the start time of the song on itunes and there it plays fine but when I add the playlist to the slide show it plays the song from the beginning. How can I edit the music to play parts of songs?

Welcome to the Apple Discussions. The start and stop points that you can set in iTunes is only valid in iTunes. You will need to edit the track with a 3rd party editor like Amadeus Pro or Garageband and then use the edited version in the iDVD project.
Once you get the audio track(s) edited and added to the iDVD project save as a disk image and play with DVD Player. I've found that at slide/chapter 100 there will be a brief pause before continuning. You'll get the same at slide/chapter 200. You can minimize the effect by using quality media (Verbatim-R) and burning at the slowest possible speed, 2x but no greater than 4x.
However, some DVD players may balk at chapter 100 and 200 and essentially freeze. A lot depends on the player. Both of my players, an high end Sony and low end Sony both get thru those point with only a brief pause similar to the pause you get on a commercial movie DVD when it's changing scenes or switching from one layer to the second one.
As F Shippey has pointed out, you will avoid that issue by creating the slideshow in iMovie (iMovie HD 6 would be better at this with the audio you're adding than iMovie 08). If you're looking for some real pizzaz you might look at PhotoPresenter. It has over 20 animated themes of which these are two: Apple
TV Intro theme and Reflection them. You can run it in demo mode to see if you'd like it.
OT

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