Iphoto slideshow photo titles lost in idvd6

I am creating a dvd project using iphoto slideshows.
When I play the slideshows in idvd6 the photo titles are missing except for the first and last photo in each slideshow.

Hi, Léonie,
The titles were not the original file names, I have very diligently given all of my photos "proper" titles (so the file names are typically IMG_xxxxx). I have double-checked a number of the affected photos, and the "proper" title shows up fine i iPhoto. For the 75% of the rest of the library, the titles were carried over to Photos (and show when I choose the title metadata to be displayed).
I look at the thread with the automator workflow, and it seems that would have worked nicely if my titles also were file names... When that is not the case, I might have some days work ahead of my copying and pasting manually?

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OT

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OT

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I don't know how to enter a link here in order to include the directions on how to create titles in iPhoto..
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Sal Pedi
Salvatore
We have no idea what enhancements - if any - are
planned for iPhoto. What you want to do cannnot be
done with iPhoto unless you use a third part editor
to create images with the comments, and import the
images into iPhoto and then incorporate them into
your slideshow. There are other apps that can caption
and use comments. Check out PhotoToMovie from
http://www.lqgraphics.com.
Regards
TD

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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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