Iphoto stretches slideshow pictures

My individual pictures in a slideshow are "stretched" to fill the background of the screen. By stretched I mean the last edge pixcels colours appear to be repeated to the side of the picture out to the edge of the screen. This creates a weird striped appearance. Is there any way to make the background black or whatever? Previous posts here refer to being able to choose formats (4:3, 16:9 etc) but I can't find these in my settings- iphoto 09. Setting to "scale photos to screen" picks up only part of each picture. I want the whole picture as in the original.

Are you creating the slideshow by selecting an album of photos and using the Play button? That gives a different setting window than the one that comes up from the slideshow mode. This is the one that comes up when using the album method:
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It's the only way that you can get slides to play randomly (shuffle). Is that the one you're seeing?
Note: This is the forum for iPhoto 08 but we've both been referring to the correct version, V8.1 - iPhoto 09. We didn't get sidetracked there.
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Hi
A. I don't know - I don't do it like that. Lack of KnowHow.
B. I do it by using either a video-editor or a dedicated program
• iMovie HD6 or FinalCut any version
• FotoMagico™
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To get as high quality possibly - read
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1. iDVD 08, 09 & 11 has three levels of qualities. (version 7.0.1, 7,0.4 & 7.1.1)
iDVD 6 has the two last ones
• Professional Quality (movies + menus up to 120 min.) - BEST (if movie + menu is > 60 minutes)
• Best Performances (movies + menus less than 60 min.) - High quality on final DVD
• High Quality (in iDVD08 or 09) / Best Quality (in iDVD6) (movies + menus up to 120 min.) - slightly lower quality than above
About double on DL DVDs.
2. Video from
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• iMovie x-6 - Don't use ”Share/Export to iDVD” = destructive even to movie project and especially so
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This can also be done with Apple’s Disk Utilities application.
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5. I use Verbatim ( also recommended by many - Taiyo Yuden DVDs - I can’t get hold of it to test )
6. I use DVD-R (no +R or +/-RW)
7. Keep NTSC to NTSC - or - PAL to PAL when going from iMovie to iDVD
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• DVD is a standard in it self. It is Standard Definition Quality = Same as on old CRT-TV sets and can not
deliver anything better that this.
HD-DVD was a short-lived standard and it was only a few Toshiba DVD-players that could playback.
These DVDs could be made in DVD-Studio Pro. But they don’t playback on any other standard DVD-Player.
Blu-Ray / BD can be coded onto DVDs but limited in time to - about 20-30 minutes and then need
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_ BD-Player or PlayStation3 - to be able to playback
The BD-encoded DVDs can be play-backed IF Mac also have Roxio DVD-player tool. Not on any standard Mac or DVD-player
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• Use of Video-editor. iMovie’08 or 09 or 11 are not the tools for DVD-production. They discard every second line resulting in a close to VHS-tape quality.
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other strange formats are .avi, .wmv, .flash etc. Convert to streamingDV first
Also audio formats matters. I use only .aiff or from miniDV tape Camera 16-bit
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do you experience the same behaviour?
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In iPhoto, when you play a slideshow it's showing you the actual photos.
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I'm re-posting the answer to this problem so I can show it has been answered:
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