How can I fit audio to slideshow?

Question

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)

Answer 1

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.