IMovie or iPhoto for slide shows?

I use my digital camera to take photos of our trips, and I save them as DVD slide shows, complete with narration and music, so that my wife and I can enjoy them. However, since I upgraded to iLife 9 I have been having a problem. When I import the slide show into iMovie and then import the edited audio, iMovie "remembers" the first edition of the audio, which means that subsequent edited audio shows the wrong time. I know the audio track (always a MP3 in my case) is right - I have checked it several times. In case the good folks on the iMovie forum can't tell me how to fix that problem in iMovie, my question is this - would I be better off using slideshow in iPhoto, then exporting the whole slideshow in a movie format into iMovie, then cleaning up the whole thing and adding chapters, titles, fancy transitions, etc.? This matching audio to the slide length is taking me 2-3 times longer now than it did in iMovie 7 (iLife 8).

You can give this basic remedy a try for the problem with iMovie. Quit iMovie and delete your iMovie preferences. To do this, go to your username> library> preferences> com.apple.imovie.plist. Delete this file. Then reopen iMovie; it will create a new preference file with all of the default settings.
If you have iMovie HD6, you could use that to get the results you want. I am not familiar with subsequent versions.
Does the slideshow play the way you want in iPhoto? You could create your slideshow with edited music in iPhoto and then export as a QuickTime movie. This movie can then be imported into iDVD for burning.
I hope this helps.

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