IPhoto slideshow reveals partial desktop in background

When I view a slideshow with my display (resolution is 1360x768), iPhoto doesn't fully blacken out the background. I can see my desktop in a vertical strip down the right, about 100 pixels wide. Is this because IPhoto will not display properly at this resolution?

No, of course not. But doesn't iPhoto have the capability to display in 16:9 without stretching, AND filling the entire screen?
Just to be clear, I'm not talking about the black background behind the slideshow photos. My problem is that the black area doesn't fill the entire screen. There's an area on the right where I can see my desktop and icons.

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Export the slideshow out of iPhoto as a QT movie file via the Export button in the lower toolbar. For iPhoto 9.4.3 and earlier select Size = Medium or Large. For iPhoto 9.5 and later selct 480p.
Open iDVD, select a theme and drag the exported QT movie file into the open iDVD window being careful to avoid any drop zones.
Follow this workflow to help assure the best quality video DVD:
Once you have the project as you want it save it as a disk image via the File ➙ Save as Disk Image menu option. This will separate the encoding process from the burn process.
To check the encoding mount the disk image, launch DVD Player and play it. If it plays OK with DVD Player the encoding is good.
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This shows the iDVD contents in the iLife 09 disc via Pacifist:
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I'm trying to get my wife's MacBook Pro w/ iPhoto '09 8.1.2 to display the slidehow on an external VGA monitor. She's using the miniDisplay port to VGA adapter. The symptom of the problem is a slideshow on the built-in Display (OK) but a black screen on the external display.
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Greetings,
As you pointed out, iPhoto supports mirrored display mode. In extended desktop mode, only the one display is used (this is normal).
When I want to use an external display / projector / TV with my images:
__Use Quicktime player
__Use an AppleTV to stream iPhoto content directly to my TV
__Use Keynote (Apple's Presentation software kinda like MS Power Point) to play a presentation
If you would like to see iPhoto support extended desktop mode submit feedback from within the iPhoto Application:
iPhoto > Provide iPhoto Feedback
or
http://www.apple.com/feedback/iphoto.html
Cheers.

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I am computer illiterate and can't figure this out.
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Sorry,
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Hi-
I recently purchased an Apple TV to show my iPhoto slideshows on my flat-screen TV. I am a wedding photographer and use the slideshows as part of my presentation to potential clients. These slideshows have music playing in the background and in iPhoto the music is set to loop until all of the pictures have been displayed. Unfortunately on my Apple TV the song plays once and then stops, for some reason it is not looping in the ATV as it does on iPhoto. I called Apple support and was told that is how it works. I find it hard to believe the that the ATV would display the slideshow different than how I have it setup on iPhoto. Anyone else experience this?
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Ok....
Problem solved.
However, I'm not sure I understand why. But here's the deal: 2 identical imacs (G3 400, w/ 256mb ram....same version iphoto, itunes & quicktime). System #1 worked, system #2 didn't. After playing for half the day, I realized that System #1's working tune was an *mp3* tune, whereas System #2 was using an AAC tune. Further investigation revealed that both imacs were acting the same. Both would successfully export an iphoto slideshow/with mp3 song to quicktime, & both choked if the itunes song chosen was an AAC.
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