IPhoto 6 Slideshow issues

I'm new to iPhoto. I'd like to make a slideshow of 53 images I edited in Photoshop. I opened iPhoto, selected the only import option, "Import to Library".
All of the images are now in the Library under 2010.
I select 2010 under Source, and the first image appears in the window. I hit "Slideshow" and it makes a new folder containing just that 1 image. No good.
I then go into 2010, select all under edit, but nothing happens.
I created a folder from the Selection, but it only contains that one image. I can't tell you how "special" I'm feeling right now. I suspect my 6yr could do this perfectly. Please advise from the very beginning of importing into iPhoto and all the way thru. Clearly I need it. Thank you in advance.

Use the Full Library view and select the pics:
File -> New Album from Selection
Now you have all the pics in a single album and you can base your slideshow on that.
Regards
TD

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During this several reports have been sent to apple on my behalf, saying iDVD suddenly quit, when in fact it hadn't or I had simply closed it, but there were reports so I sent them.
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Any suggestions would be appreciated. thanks

Have you read: iDVD 6.0 Help - Preparing images for DVD slideshows at http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=iDVD/6.0/en/17.html ?
Feeding iDVD high-resolution still images doesn't help quality.
the final disk distorts the pictures in the slideshow, they look as though there are moving parts in some of them, a sort of waving shaky effect ..
When sharp, still images are used you will see interlacing effects that make parts of images flicker. Images on a TV set are interlaced - meaning you see two slightly different images (called 'fields') that alternate at a 1/60 second rate making the image appear to 'shimmer' of 'flicker'.
(interestingly enough when played through the iDVD the show is beautifully rendered with no distortions, so there goes the theory aboout monitor vs television being to blame).
Sorry, but using the preview function in iDVD does NOT represent the final quality of the DVD that will be produced because it uses the uncompressed source material - think of it as a 'for position only' view of the project.
iDVD produced DVDs WILL look better on a conventional CRT TV set (which has less than 640x480 pixels in NTSC) than it will on a computer monitor (with many more pixels) full screen.

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My guess is, it just may be fixed.
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I've made a few slideshows in iphoto due to the Ken Burns effect and also the ability to choose full screen or widescreen. I made DVDs for friends with full and myself with wide for my widescreen- and that works fine.
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Is there a better way to do this with better results? Using iMovie? (Never have used that app before..) Each show has 100-250 slides and I choose a music playlist from iTunes. I am a quality freak and looking the uncrisp images isn't too thrilling.
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THIS IS THE ONLY THING THAT HAS WORKED AND PROJECTS ARE ABLE TO BE VERIFIED. MENUS ARE FUNCTIONAL IN MY 2 DVD PLAYERS...
I have the newest versions of Toast and iPhoto and iDVD. It's been very frustrating. Can't figure out why iDVD and Disk Utility won't burn... and TOAST only works using "Data" instead of Video... My Powerbook is a 60 GB 12" G4 1.33 model. I'm so tempted to upgrade to a bigger hard drive and a Superdrive but I don't know if that will help anything.
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Video DVDs are 720X480 (NTSC). Much lower resolution than straight iPhoto slideshows and your original photos. Nothing you can do about this until either HD-DVD or Blu-Ray technology come to the market and are affordable.
iMovie will not be better resolution after it is sent to DVD. You could export to HD resolution QT files (H.264, etc.) and play those on computers with QT and keep higher resolution. But those won't play with commercial DVD players.
Disk Utility will not burn the image.
Can you verify the mounted image with Disk Utility?
Can you burn other data DVDs with the finder and with Toast succesfully?
You should be able to use both the Video_TS drag into DVD-Video for Toast and the direct image burn in Toast, as well as Disk Utility. I wonder if there is an error in the image, so see if you can verify the mounted image with DU.
John B

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When using the mini-dvi to video adapter to connect to my widescreen tv (via composite), to show iPhoto slideshows, the transistions between slides dont apear and there are no ken burns effects. The slideshow runs fine on my MacBook display (ie when not conected to the tv), and the is no other distortion or flickering (as reported in other threads), this seems odd to me or is it just a limitation of analogue output.
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It means that the issue resides in your existing Library.
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Back Up and try rebuild the library: hold down the command and option (or alt) keys while launching iPhoto. Use the resulting dialogue to rebuild. Choose to Rebuild iPhoto Library Database from automatic backup.
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Download iPhoto Library Manager and use its rebuild function. This will create a new library based on data in the albumdata.xml file. Not everything will be brought over - no slideshows, books or calendars, for instance - but it should get all your albums and keywords, faces and places back.
Because this process creates an entirely new library and leaves your old one untouched, it is non-destructive, and if you're not happy with the results you can simply return to your old one.
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Hi everyone! Above are the specs for the project I'm working on and here's the problem I'm having:
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The goal is to have them both at the same dimension and then match the monitor resolution.
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Thanks, I think I'll skip the Ken Burns for now since I've had nothing but problems with it. My issues before were that 1) iMovie would play the images in sequence just fine during playback but at export would mix up the order. 2) The resolution on the pictures was absolutely terrible. I have a new movie now and haven't seen either problem.

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you just cannot export your slideshows in order to burn DVDs, with the same quality
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See Jim Symon's post in this iDVD topic: Re: High-definition DVDs. Also search his other posts as he was working out a workflow using Photo to Movie to create high def movies and burn them with iDVD. As I recall he found and posted his workflow at one time.

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GHz Intel Core Duo MacBook Pro with a 4GB memory computer with Ddr3 running OSX 10.8.4
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