Idvd fit audio to slideshow

When I import or create a slideshow with music in Idvd, I choose the fit audio to slideshow option. The timing of the specific slides with the music has been choreographed, especially the conclusion of both photos and music at the end.As an Iphoto slideshow,a Quicktime movie, etc...the product is perfect. However, once in idvd the sldies will continue past the conclusion of the music.Even deleting thumbnails does not solve the issue.This wasn't an issue until Leopard upgrade.Any thoughts?

I had a simialr issue today as well which you may wish to read about as to how I resolved (or worked around) this issue.
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=8715009#8715009

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How can I fit audio to slideshow?

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)

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.

What is the best way to shorten a song so it will fit on a slideshow.

What is the best way to shorten a song so it will fit on a slideshow so I do not have to remove or add pictures.
Thank you in advance

No need to shorten the audio track. Just click on the option to Fit slideshow to music in the Slideshow Settings preference pane:
That will do just what it says, play the slideshow for the entire length of the music selected to play.
OT

I movie w/ spliced pics throw off movie when uploaded to youtube? The pics lag and is now off with the audio. Doesn't happen with video, just pics and it's worse if I splice the pics to fit audio. Suggestions?

This is really annoying. I movie hd works well when compressing it to quicktime and uploading to youtube but when there's pics involved and I have to slice them to fit audio it messes with the timing in conjunction to the audio. Any ideas? It works fine in quicktime when compressed but once it's uploaded to youtube it acts fishy. Even though it's fine in quicktime it seems to be an issue in I movie and how it's compressed or something.
I movie HD- 5.0.2
quicktime player- 7.5.5
Compression settings
compression: h.264
quality: high
key frame rate:24
frame rec: yes
encoding mode: multi pass
dimensions: 320x 240
sound
format: acc
sample rate: 48.000khz
channels:mono
bit rate:64kbps

That's fantastic, worked really well, just like you said. I actually didn't expect such an easy solution to my problem, thanks very much.
It had the added bonus that it allows me to import the files quicker than before to iMovieHD if I am editing them.
Thanks again

IDVD no audio solved, but ...

like many other, I had the problem that when I edited my movies in iMovie and iDVD the audio was fine, until I started burning them on DVD or disk image. Than there was either no audio at all, or after some minutes (usually 5-15) the audio was gone.
I tried lot's of tips that I found in this forum, but nothing helped.
My data was on an external USB2 drive (mac formated). Since access to USB2 is somewhat slow on macs, I got a new firewire drive. Using the terminal cp, I copied all my data to the new harddrive. When I than opened my iDVD project and did my 101 try to burn the DVD, everything went fine. I tried my other projects that I got stuck with (no audio) ... all of them burned just fine. When I do it from the USB2 drive --> no audio !!!
So my problem is solved and I'm happy.
But I would like to know just for my sanity what is causing this problem when having the data on a USB2 drive (400GB, MacOS Extended). Does anybody has any idea?
The drive is slower than a firewire drive. But the only effect I would expect from that is that I have to wait longer until my movie is rendered ....
20'' iMac (Intel) Mac OS X (10.4.9) latest version of iMovie/iDVD

Welcome Uwe_Meier
Glad to hear the issue was solved eventually. To answer your question, iMovie and iDVD6 were designed to work well with firewire devices. They are often problematic at best with USB.
The reason for this is that firewire offers a sustained data stream which is in practice ideal for most video applications, whereas usb transfers data in packet technology (burst of data that are entirely CPU dependent). Firewire is actually smarter technology for most high speed data transfers (and especially video) since it is not cpu dependant. FW negociates bus conflicts on its own whereas the same bus conflict can slow USB to a crawl.
The drive is slower than a firewire drive. But the only effect I would expect from that is that I have to wait longer until my movie is rendered ....
Nope. This isn't correct. Here's why:
"While USB 2.0 has a higher theoretical speed limit (480Mbps) than Firewire 400 (400 Mbps), Firewire is much faster than USB 2.0 in real life usage, just by nature of the design of the protocol.
Firewire has very little overhead and is far more efficient with sustained data transfers than USB 2.0.
USB is very dependant on CPU usage and is adversely affected by other processes running on the machine, as well as other devices attached to the USB bus. Firewire is not suceptible to these issues.
In the real world, you will never get anywhere near 480Mbps with USB 2.0. You are hardly even likely to see half that speed.
Firewire is faster than USB 2 in almost every aspect... especially on a Mac."
The above is a quote from Rich Fleming.
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Getting slideshow photos in imovie to fit audio

I have spent too many hours tonight trying to get all my pictures (with the Ken Burns effect on) to fit perfectly to a song that is 6 minutes and 18 seconds long. Now all the pictures stay on the screen for different lengths of time. Is there any way to highlight all the photos in my slideshow within imovie and have them all be adjusted in one fell swoop to stay on the screen for the entire length of the song I have chosen...without me needing to do the math to figure out how many pics I have and how many seconds each should stay on screen? I really want the computer to do this for me. Is there a way???? TIA

This link describes how to synchronize images to the beat of music. That's not your goal, but some of the techniques it describes may apply:
http://discussions.info.apple.com/webx?128@@.68a8c722
Note that until you render the images into video clips, it takes just a moment to Update all the images to a new duration. Turn OFF the KB checkbox, select all the images in the timeline, apply the same KB duration to each, then tweak that duration and Update until they match the play time of the music. THEN turn on the KB checkbox, adjust the zoom(?), and Update to render the images.
(You want them rendered to avoid an iMovie bug adding jaggies to the images when you press the Create iDVD Project button. iMovie will ask to render them, and if you permit it, iMovie will add lots of jaggies.)
And don't miss iMovie HD's new Edit > Select Similar Clips command.
Karl

I created a slideshow on Smilebox, when sent to IDVD the audio was fine but there was no video, help.

I created a slideshow on Smilebox and sent it to IDVD, it only recorded the audio not the pictures, any suggestions? I really need this done in the next couple of days so I can mail it for Mother's Day

Smilebox probably doesn't create a movie file in the proper format. I note that Smilebox has their own DVD creation software for both PCs and Macs; why not use it?
http://support.smilebox.com/ics/support/default.asp?deptID=4044

"Persistent" audio in slideshow with Manual transitions

What I want:
Add music to a slideshow, which will loop as the slideshow plays;
AND
Slide duration = Manual
WITH
Dissolve transition.
Is this possible?
When I add audio to a slideshow, the "Manual" option under the "Slide duration" dropdown grays out. I can arrow through the slideshow, but the transitions disappear and the audio skips around.
Thanks in advance.

Hi Scott
And welcome to apple discussions. As soon as you add an audio file to a manually advanced slideshow w/in iDvd'09, guess what happens?
It automatically becomes a fit to audio slideshow.
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Can't do this within iDvd via the traditional approach of making a slideshow within iDvd only (sorry). I'm assuming you already know how to make a slideshow advance manually with dissolve as the transition.
Here's what I suggest if iDvd'09 is the only app at your disposal currently.
Workaround: Go ahead and make the manual slideshow normally (no audio). Now add any music files you wish to the dvd rom section of the dvd. If you plan to use the laptop as the presentation hardware connected to an LCD projector to TV out; then launch iTunes also from the music files contained within the dvd rom section and then go back to iDvd slideshow feature and play your manual slideshow as you wish while music loops in the background. In other words, you'll have to use iTunes and iDvd simultaneously to meet your objective as stated above.
If you'd like I can test this feature later w/in DVDSP.
http://www.apple.com/finalcutstudio/dvdstudiopro/intuitive-design-environment.ht ml
Might take me a while to post the results though. Roxio Toast might also be worth looking into for slideshows.
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Fitting audio to slides in Premiere elements

I am trying to create a slide show in PE 7. I added an audio clip. How do I make the audio extend till the end of the slide show?

You can slow down the audio but other than that there isn't any way to 'stretch' it out. You can add another piece of music after, or you could edit the music to make the clip longer.
The other option is to shorten the slideshow or to not show the images for quite so long.
The Photoshop Elements Slide Show Creator has a feature that will fit the slides to the music ;)
In Premiere Elements it is more of a manual process.

Problem adding audio to slideshow

I created a slideshow in Elements 8 with no problem. I added several tracks of audio that fit well. I learned that I needed to have Elements Premier to publish it to a DVD. I downloaded the trials of Photoshop Elements 10 and Photoshop Elements Premier 10 and created the slide show again. However I can not get the audio correct. When I add the first song it takes up the entire slide show. I add three more songs and they are just added on past the slide show which is 16 minutes long. When I click to match the slides to the audio it tells me that the show is over 24 hours long. I have unchecked the option to repeat the sound track until the end and cannot figure out what I need to do. I know it is something probably simple but I can't seem to figure it out. The audio files are MP3. Can anyone tell me how to get the program to accept the song for its correct length?

There are actually a number of ways (at least 4) to create a slideshow in Premiere Elements, and without knowing which of those methods you're using it's hard to comment specifically.
But if you're building your slideshow on the Premiere Elements timeline, first make sure you're in Timeline mode. Then, when you add your audio track, hold down the Ctrl key. This will allow you to place the audio on a parallel track, below the video/slideshow. If you don't hold down the Ctrl key, the audio will be inserted -- which means that it will drop onto the timeline and push all of the video/slideshow to the right -- which is what sounds like is happening to you.
BTW, the trial of the program has a number of limitations, including limitations on its ability to render. In other words, you probably won't be able to output a video or DVD of the slideshow you create in the trial version of the program. Just a word of warning before you put too much time into it.
And I would also recommend you convert that MP3 into a WAV file using a program like Audacity (free). It will save you some headaches in the long run. Also, when you see red lines above the clips on your timeline, press Enter to render the timeline. (When rendered, the red lines will turn green.)
Lots more headache-saving tips like this in my books, if you're interested.
http://Muvipix.com/pe10.php

IDVD 4 Audio problems

My audio works just fine in both iMovie, and iDVD. When I play the DVD I burned the audio works just fine for the menus, and slideshows. After playing a movie for about 00:01:30 the audio cuts off for the rest of the movie. Any ideas?
2.5 Ghz PowerPc G5 Mac OS X (10.4.8) Using iLife 04

There can be some goofy audio problems. One recommendation is to Extract the Audio from your problem clip while in iMovie and see if this makes a difference in the DVD. [this creates a separate sound file, which sometimes fixes audio problems]
The point where the audio stops -- is it the beginning of a clip? near a transition? or?
John

Need Help with Skipping Audio in Slideshows

I'm trying to burn a simple slideshow with iDVD of about 80 pictures, with an overlay .mp3 playing. I made the slideshow, and during the preview, the audio plays fine. But after I burned it, the mp3 skips slightly while the pictures change.
I initially thought the pix were too big, so I scaled them down from 400 to about 150 KB. But the second one had the same problem.
Is there anything I can do to fix this? It seems like what might be causing it is the page flip transition between pix. Is there any way I can keep the transition and get rid of the skipping? Thanks so much for the help.
I'm trying to finish this project ASAP, so thanks for the urgent response with any suggestions.
MacBook Mac OS X (10.4.6)

The disk image with DVD Player worked flawlessly.
That's what to expect from a burned DVD.
This just keeps getting more weird.
Not to me now that you're providing more info.
Two items of interest:
1.) I then took the DVD to another player in my house and it worked great.
Not all players handle recordable DVDs very well. Especially if they're older than a couple of years. I've had the worst permormance from Toshiba.
2.) The DVDs are DVD-R, Memorex.
TDK and Memorex have BAD track records here.
I recommend a disk image burned to Verbatim DVD-R at 4X or slower using Toast or Disk Utility.
David Pogue also recommends Verbatim on page 356 of his latest book:
iMovie HD & iDVD 6: The Missing Manual
Quoting David: "Cheaper brands don't use the same amount of organic dyes and are more likely to suffer premature deaths."

Fitting a photo slideshow to music

Just starting my first photo slideshow in 08 (having done many in 06 and earlier).
Am just about getting over the lack of a timeline for fine tuning the audio, but figured if I select the music carefully, it should naturally fit the duration of the slideshow.
However - I can't seem to find a 'fit slideshow to music' option - just the choice of setting a slide duration to an individual slide, or to all the slides.
So what is the best way of getting the photos to fit the duration of the music added?

So what is the best way of getting the photos to fit the duration of the music added?
I assume what QT Kirk was trying to point out in his own way is that such an automatic function does not currently exist in iMovie '08. (It would, however, probably make a good enhancement request for iMovie '08 feedback if you want to follow up on it.) The process of duplication such an action is, of course, not all that hard if you want to duplicate it manually.
1) Import all photos to the project first.
2) Locate and drop your selected music with desired total duration to the project background.
3) Now reset the the duration of the sides to match the music duration by
a) Use a calculator to calculate the number of whole seconds for each slide by dividing the total duration of your music by the total number of slides and noting this number for later use.
b) Now subtract the whole number calculated above from your answer leaving you with just the fractional part.
c) Now multiply this fraction by the frame rate standard in which you are editing. (I.e., 25 for PAL or 29.97 for NTSC)
d) Now round off your answer to the nearest whole number. (I.e., number of frames)
e) Now select one of your images and choose the "Set Duration" option.
f) Enter the number of "whole seconds" calculated in step "a" above and the number of frames calculated in step "d" above. (Ex. 5 seconds and 25 frames for an NTSC slideshow would be entered as "5:25" in the duration box.)
g) Don't forget to set the "Applies to all Photos" option before pressing the "OK" button.
4) At this point you can add transitions if desired.
These steps should give you a reasonably close approximation for your slideshow. Since the error in approximation for the process is determined by the number of photos included in the slideshow, some adjustment may be required for large numbers of slides. What I might do is simply lessen the duration of each slide by a frame or two and add a "Title" with a duration equal the required adjustment between the changed slideshow display and the original music background to ensure a good final match between the two -- i.e., to take up the "slop" in our fudge factored approximation. While the process may sound complicated, it only takes a matter of seconds to accomplish.

IDVD Menu Audio

Whilst I can add audio to my top level menu it can't be heard on playback. Audio plays ok on submenus and slideshows. I'm using iDVD v7.01

I want to report back that I was able to get audio working in the iDVD theme I had chosen. I'm not sure what happened or why, but it is suddenly working. Here are the details:
The theme I was attempting to use was an old theme (Western). From the drop-down in iDVD, I selected "Older Theme" and then selected "Western". I was prompted to download the old themes from the Apple website and I followed the instructions, doing so.
After install and reboot, I selected the theme. There was no audio applied, so I selected a suitable mp3 from iTunes and dragged/dropped. No audio.
I shortened the audio file, re-dragged and dropped. No audio.
I then began experimenting with the different audio types. No audio on the theme no matter which file type or size I used.
I followed the suggestions from this forum (removed audio file, clicked on the icon multiple times). No audio.
Rebooted and tried again. No audio.
Then I thought I would attempt to take an existing, newer theme where the audio was working and see if I could change the audio. I did that and the new theme worked.
I decided to try again so I created a new project and selected the old Theme Western again and dragged-dropped the audio file and guess what ... it worked.
All I could think was that by selecting the newer theme and changing the audio, I must have somehow got the application to "un-mute" or something like that.
At any rate, I think this is a bug and have filed a report. Hopefully, Apple will provide us with a patch to fix.
My Christmas project is finished - and just in time.
Thank you for your help!

IDVD music skips for slideshow

I have create an idvd slideshow for my mother 90th birthday. I have selected 8 songs. When I play the slideshow from beginning to end everything works great....then I burn the DVD and play it and some of the songs skip. I redo the DVD and it skips in different places. What can I do to fix this? Susan
I also have the issue of not being able to burn a DVD-R ...it seems to only want to burn on a DVD-RW. Is this normal? There are 426 pictures and 8 songs. My computer has lots of room.

Btw, if your objective is to have all images on a single shideshow then I'd recommend an alternate app for the slideshow itself prior to using iDvd. For example; iMovie will work with stills as a single QT file and hence no limits on the number of images (up to the capacity of the dvd you are using at the time) with excellent audio results also.
You may also wish to consider these alternate apps which specialize in slideshow presentation which you can then burn through iDvd.
http://www.lqgraphics.com/software/phototomovie.php
http://boinx.com/fotomagico/overview/
http://boinx.com/photopresenter/overview/
http://www.boinx.com/fotomagico/roxio/
http://www.apple.com/ilife/tutorials/#iphoto
Hope these helps but if not just come on back. Good luck!

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