IDVD '08 - image order in Slideshows

Just noticed a big "bug" with iDVD and the image order in Slideshows.
Say you have a folder of images that are number in sequential order, because, I don't know, the photographer wants them presented in the order they were taken in.
If you have iDVD's slideshow window open, and you drag those images from the Finder in to the window, their order is all messed up. I can't even begin to understand what logic the ordering takes when imported using drag and drop.
If you select the images by using the Import menu, they are arranged in the correct order.

+If you have iDVD's slideshow window open, and you drag those images from the Finder in to the window, their order is all messed up.+
I do that all the time. Mine don't get "all messed up." I think iDVD uses the date/time code. Since I prefer them arranged chronologically in most cases, it works for me. Maybe the Import function goes by file name sequence?

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IDVD slideshow image order

I know that you can re-arrange the order of images in iDVD. My question is how can you drag and drop a group of images into iDVD Slideshow, without iDVD changing the original order?
Even if I drag & drop a folder of images into iDVD, the order is changed.
Even if I name the files in numerical order, iDVD changes the order.
Tony

Thanks, I guess I came across some better luck than others.
The answer came from my local Mac Club: Use three numbers, e.g.; 001 .jpg - 298 . jpg
This is similar to iPhoto, except with iPhoto, you are supposed to precede the 3 digits with a name (or letters).
Go to Russell Brown for an script to batch change your #'s. It's free and quite simple to use. Oh, and duplicate the originals before you godown that road.

IDVD Changes Order of Slideshow

I just installed iLife '06 yesterday, and I tried to use iDVD to make a DVD of some vacation photos. I divided the pictures up into groups of 99, but when I created the first slideshow and imported the media, the software changed the order of my photos. I dragged the 99 jpg files to the "drop" window, but the files, which are named by numberical sequence, appeared in random order.
Is there a way i can get iDVD to keep the photos in the order that I put them in?

dragged the 99 jpg files to the "drop" window, but the files, which are named by numberical sequence, appeared in random order. Is there a way i can get iDVD to keep the photos in the order that I put them in?
You can rearrange the images in the slideshow window by dragging to put them back in the correct order - I know it's more work, but that's the work around.

How do you shuffle the image order when creating a new slideshow in apterture 3? i would like to do this automatically when creating a new slideshow. i see how you do it when you just play a slideshow.

how do you shuffle the image order when creating a new slideshow in apterture 3? i would like to do this automatically when creating a new slideshow. i see how you do it with presets when you just play a slideshow, but i don't see an option to randomly shuffle the slide order when you create a new slideshow. i know you can sort it by different fields, but i want it to be random. thanks.

If you want to rearrange images in random order you can try an AppleScript:
retrieve a list of selected images from Aperture
shuffe the list properly
create an album in Aperture and add the images from the list to the album (make sure that the album set to be orederd manually)
Here is a sample script that shuffles the selected images and displays them in random order in Full Screen Mode:
on removeItem(ims, i)
-- remove the item at position "i" from a list ims
          if ims is {} then return {}
          if (length of ims is 1) then return {}
          if i < 2 then return rest of ims
          if (i = length of ims) then return (items 1 thru (i - 1) of ims)
          if i > (length of ims) then return ims -- should be error?
          return (items 1 thru (i - 1) of ims) & (items (i + 1) thru (length of ims) of ims)
end removeItem
on shuffle_items(ims)
-- shuffle the items of the list "ims" randomly
          local numitems, ims_shuffled, nextrest, nextpick, i
          set numitems to length of ims
          if length of ims < 2 then return ims
          set ims_shuffled to {}
          set nextrest to ims
          repeat until nextrest is {}
                    set i to (random number (numitems - 1)) + 1
                    set nextpick to item i of nextrest
                    set beginning of ims_shuffled to nextpick
                    set numitems to numitems - 1
                    set nextrest to removeItem(nextrest, i)
          end repeat
          return ims_shuffled
end shuffle_items
on shuffleIms()
-- retrieve the selected images from Aperture
-- and display them in random order in full screen mode
          local imageSel, shuffled, i
          tell application "Aperture"
activate
                    set imageSel to (get selection)
                    set shuffled to my shuffle_items(imageSel)
                    set fullscreen to true
                    if imageSel is {} then error "Please select some images."
                    repeat with i from 1 to count of shuffled
                              reveal {item i of shuffled}
delay 3 -- chnage that to the time you want
                    end repeat
                    set fullscreen to false
                    return shuffled
          end tell
end shuffleIms
shuffleIms()
Some more code snippets to go from here:
To create an album:
                    tell library 1
                              if not (exists album "shuffledAlbum") then
make new album with properties {name:"shuffledAlbum", image version:shuffled}
                              end if
                    end tell
And to add the images from the shuffled list to the album:
                    repeat with i from 1 to count of shuffled
                              duplicate item i of shuffled to album "shuffledAlbum"
                    end repeat
Regards
Léonie

IDVD is stripping most color from my images in my slideshow. Please help!

I have received so much help from this forum....
I am running iDVD 7.1.2 and Mavericks 10.9.5.
So I started an iDVD project about 18 months ago on a different computer.
I saved the project to an external HDD so I could move it from an iMac with a bad DVD drive to a MacBook with an awesome superdrive. This has always worked for me.
But I don't think think that information affects my current problem.... just tossing it out there because sometimes information we don't think is relevant is certainly relevant to a knowledgeable person!
Fast forward 18 months or so. I open the project on another computer, but iDVD is stripping all but the brightest colors from the images in my slideshow.
Is this a Mavericks thing?
I have tried, in numerous variations, even to the point of starting a completely new DVD project and dropping the images into the app..... still the same problem: all the images are mostly black and white (or gray tones at best), with the occasional colored brightest elements from the original photo. (It's a cool effect, just not appropriate or desirable for this particular project.)
I have tried the project on different computers, both with opening a new project and with building a new project. It just doesn't matter. The slideshow images lose color. Except, an interesting caveat is that if I pause the playback, click the previous slide button, then play: the image has full color again. But subsequent images are again B&WwC.
I figure it must be something awry with the settings in Wirecast.....
Thank you so much for any assistance.
Dee Dee

Hi
In what kind of format is Your photos ? .jpg, .tif, .bmp else
What size are they ?
How many ?
How many slideshow set's ?
You are aware of the 99 photos per serie limit. And 99 series/chapters limit per DVD disk ( not iDVD but DVD-Standard in general ).
Yours Bengt W

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ACCORDION PANEL Will not allow me to size it smaller than 962 pixels. The content area of the accordion panel is filled with one slide show per panel or tab, and I've checked all of the elements within the slideshow to make sure nothing exceeds 960 pixels. Nothing I can find exceeds 960 pixels, but when I remove all the elements from the content area, BOOM, I can make the panel any width I want.

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or
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or
2. Identify the slides in layers panel and drag their panel entries to the position you want.
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You can choose whatever size you want – even with a slideshow within:
You have to make sure, that all element of the slideshow (caption, prev, next, counter) fit within the accordion panel. And – since the single accordeon panels don’t allow individual sizes – you have to make sure, that the content of every(!) accordeon panel does not exceed the size you want.

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It sounds as though you are using the "set date and time" option instead of the "batch change" option. The set date and time option does indeed add the same amount of time to each photo as you set in the options.
The batch change option allows you to set the time for the first photo in your selection and then add incremental periods of time according to your choosing to each supplemental photo.
Note; you must place all the photos in the order you want them and then select them all before applying the batch change option.

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When I view a selection of images using the slideshow function in Bridge, (CS6) it significantly softens the focus of every image. If I view the same images in the MS slideshow viewer, the images, same screen size, of possibly even slightly larger, are very sharp. Why the problem? Typically I am working with 3-8 MB files.

Thanks for your reply and for the link. However, the link addresses the problem for TV appearance while mine was concerned about the playback on my iMac.
When I burned other DVDs from Keynote, there was no "blurring or fuzziness" with photos or text on playback with my iMac or TV!
Also, the playback was automatic when the disk was inserted. When the latest one was inserted, the disk icon etc had to be clicked for it to run after which full screen had to be selected as well.
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Any other suggestions on burning would be appreciated.
Vernon

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Hi Gibbah,
You'd have to place the line with:
var imageLoader:Loader;
within the loop.
Now the same loader is told 5 times to load an image and to
report when done. Each time overwriting the previous commands.
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created each time.
In the eventhandler you'd have to point to:
Loader( e.target.loader ) instead of 'imageLoader'
apart from that i will aways trace 5 since it is declared
outside any function and thus reports the last value it was
assigned. This also means all images will end up at the same
position.
hth,
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IDVD '08 - image order in Slideshows

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