IPhoto music problem

Question

Hello,
I've searched for the answer to this problem in the threads but can't find it.
I have an odd problem with an iPhoto slideshow. I can set it all up correctly, but when I transfer it to iMovies to then burn a CD in Toast Titanium, only the first tune in the playlist plays. The music then stops. How do I get all the music to play continuously?
Bizzarrely, this works OK on the slideshow before transfer

Answer 1

Hi nodger13,
Only one song exporting with
Slideshows
Right now, this seems to be a know
problem/bug with iPhoto 5. There have been some
work-arounds. Don't know if the problem is with
iPhoto, Quicktime or a combo of both.
-From Bob
Worthington: re-ripping the cuts I wanted as
background music for the DVD as a single cut in
iTunes. I then made a playlist containing the one
extended cut of music.
-Old Toad: share to
Quicktime from iPhoto and then import the resulting
movie into iMovie you can extract and delete the
audio from the video and add the two songs to the
video and save.
Quicktime Pro-open the movie and bring up the Movie
Properties menu window. In the top window select the
audio track and delete it.
If you want more than
one song you'll have to join them together with
iMovie or some other application. Then open that
joined file with QT Player. Then do a select all and
copy. Now go to the QT window of the movie and select
the Edit->Add to Movie menu option. You don't want to
scale it because it will change the play speed of the
audio unless it's time is exactly the same as the
movie.
You could go the other way, open the movie,
select all and copy, and then past with scaling to
the audio. That will change the speed of the movie
and transitions to fit the audio track. In this case
the resulting video file will have the name of the
audio track file that you started with.
You may
have to play with it a bit to get exactly what you
want. Be sure to work with copies of all the media
files for the project.
-Peter Burtwistle: I
opened the Qt movie that iPhoto makes when you export
to iDVD and removed the sound track.
Then made a
new soundtrack by opening all three songs in QT, then
cutting and pasting them together.
Finally use QT
Pro's 'Add to Movie" option to add the soundtrack to
the original movie.
This worked well and was fast
to do too.
-Joe Lombardo: I ended up having
to extend the songs by 20 seconds so I brought them
all into GarageBand and made some edits. Then I
exported them all to iTunes as a single track and
used that for the slideshow
From scotty321 at MacOSXHints.com: If you have Roxio Toast Titanium
installed on your machine, you can join unprotected
tracks yourself by simulating a disc burn. Simply
take these steps:
Go to the Audio tab in Toast.
Drag your audio files from iTunes into Toast.
Reshuffle them in the proper order within Toast.
Go up to File: Save As Disc Image. Save your disc
image somewhere on your Desktop.
Choose Utilities: Mount Disc Image. The CD will mount
on your desktop, and iTunes will think that you just
inserted a CD.
Within iTunes, select the tracks that you want to
join and then use Advanced: Join CD Tracks.
Go through the import process, and you've got a
joined track! Simply rename the track to whatever you
want to call it, and you're good to go.
From Lori...
Burn the playlist in
iTunes.
Make sure you have itunes Prefs just open the Cd and
not automatically play or import the songs.
Insert the burned CD and iTunes will open.
Within iTunes, select the tracks that you want to
join and then use Advanced: Join CD Tracks.
Go to Advanced>convert selection to AAC.
When done, make a new playlist named after the
slideshow.
Put the new combined track into the playlist.
In iPhoto, select this playlist for your
slideshow.