Lightroom slideshow goes black

When I try to run Slideshow in Lightroom, the screen goes black and no images are shown. This happens no matter what type of files I am trying to show, i.e. RAW, TIFF, JPEG.

How many images for the slideshow. How long before selecting slideshow and hitting play is? G4 is real slow for LR, and it takes time for the Slideshow to render. Have you first rendered standard previews?
Also, just to be sure, check your monitor profile.
Don
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Slideshow goes black

I get a black screen and that annoying music when I try to do a slideshow from certain files. Have to click Apple>Option>Esc in order to get back to desktop. Any reasons anyone would know of why this happens.
Also, I loaded a CD full of jpegs and they are scattered all over the place, in different files, thumbs, etc. Could this be a possible conflict with the slideshow?
Any suggestions greatly appreciated.
Jim

If Mac is so easy, why does it take me, computer-literate on FCP in Mac, not able to find a particular photo
Jim,
It's not that hard to decipher. The hierarchy starts with folders, potentially one for each year. Each year can contain up to 12 folders (that correspond to the 12 months of the year). A "month" folder can contain up to 31 folders (that correspond to the up-to 31 days in a month. Each of your image files has a creation date made up of day, month, and year components. A photo you took yesterday would end up in a folder named "28" in a folder named "09", in a folder named "2005".
If you imported that picture today, it would appear on a "roll" in your photo library with other photos from the same import session, and that roll would be dated "9/29/2005". If the picture had special significance, you'd do things like title the photo, or put it in an album (or multiple albums) having a particular theme, or associate key words with it.
I'm not certain how many more ways you'd want to organize things, but the flexibility to find any important photo in an instant is certainly there.

Run iPhoto slideshow on 2nd display without 1st display going black?

Hi there,
I can't seem to find a clear answer on this one. I have just connected a 2nd display to my mac mini via the thunderbolt connection. When I put iPhoto 11 onto the 2nd display desktop and run a slideshow it plays on the 2nd screen but my 1st screen goes black, which isnt ideal as I want to be able to carry on working on my 1st screen.
Is iPhoto 11 able to run a slideshow on a 2nd display without 1st display going black? If not, is there a way around this by using other software?
I have the 2nd display set up in extended mode not mirror.
I am running OSX 10.9.2.
Many thanks,
Andy.

Is iPhoto 11 able to run a slideshow on a 2nd display without 1st display going black?
No.
There may well be, but it's not possible with Aperture either.
Alternatives to iPhoto's slideshow include:
iMovie is on every Mac sold.
Others, in order of price:
PhotoPresenter $29
PhotoToMovie $49.95
PulpMotion $129
FotoMagico $29 (Home version) ($149 Pro version, which includes PhotoPresenter)
Final Cut Pro X $299
It's difficult to compare these apps. They have differences in capability - some are driven off templates. some aren't. Some have a wider variety of transitions. Others will have excellent audio controls. It's worth checking them out to see what meets your needs. However, there is no doubt that Final Cut Pro X is the most capable app of them all. You get what you pay for.

I'm having problems creating a slideshow that I can burn to a DVD. I can see all of the pictures but it goes black at a certain point every time. I'm using iPhoto. I've tried copying it but the same thing happens. Ideas?

I've loaded about 100 photos into a slideshow that I would like to burn into a DVD to share with friends at a 50th birthday celebration. It keeps going black at a certain point but I can see the pictures in the cue. Any ideas on how to correct this and how to burn it to disc easily? Thanks! This is my first time trying to do this.

With the amount of information you've provided it's impossible to offer a potential solution. We can't see your computer so we need to know the details of your problem and setup, i.e.:
what version of iPhoto are you using?
what system version are you running?
how are you trying to export the slideshow?
Here's how I recommend one get a slideshnow to iDVD: export the slideshow out of iPhoto as a QT movie file via the Export button in the lower toolbar. Select Size = Medium or Large.
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.
Then burn to disk with Disk Utility or Toast at the slowest speed available (2x-4x) to assure the best burn quality. Always use top quality media: Verbatim, Maxell or Taiyo Yuden DVD-R are the most recommended in these forums.
OT

Whenever I start my powerpoint presentation slideshow, my laptop goes black and restarts powerpoint

Whenever i start my slideshow in powerpoint presentiation on my macbook pro, it goes black. I then i escaped it and i wait for a few seconds. Then the powerpoint closes down Please help! I have to present a presentation next week!

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I've been using lightroom for a year or so now. Today I imported some photos and all of a sudden I can no longer to anything in the program. Whenever I click anywhere the screen goes black or white with whatever photo i'm looking at big in the center. I can't edit anything. Please help!!!!!!!!!

Hello Dave,
Congratulations on your new Apple TV. Also, thank you for the details about the issue you are experiencing when using AirPlay on your Apple TV.
I recommend reviewing the steps in the section titled "Troubleshooting performance issues with AirPlay or AirPlay Mirroring" in the following article (you can skip the steps that refer to a Mac since you are experiencing it on your iPad). I suggest reviewing the full section, but this step specifically stands out to me for the issue you described:
Use the Wi-Fi network troubleshooting guide to resolve interference and other issues.
Troubleshooting AirPlay and AirPlay Mirroring
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS4215
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Sheila M.

My iPhoto goes black when I try to open a photo

I am running OS 10.7.5 and iPhoto 11 9.4.3 on an iMac. Yesterday I uploaded 620 photos into iPhoto. They worked perfectly and I was able to go through all of them after uploading. I did not close iPhoto last night but minimized it to the dock. Today when I tried to open a photo from the thumbnail, the screen went black. All my albums do the same thing. The first image clicked on comes up on the screen. Then it goes black and then nothing I do will bring up another image.
I restarted iPhoto but that did not help.

Option 1
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 Repair Database. If that doesn't help, then try again, this time using Rebuild Database.
If that fails:
Option 2
Download iPhoto Library Manager and use its rebuild function. (In early versions of Library Manager it's the File -> Rebuild command. In later versions it's under the Library menu.)
This will create an entirely new library. It will then copy (or try to) your photos and all the associated metadata and versions to this new Library, and arrange it as close as it can to what you had in the damaged Library. It does this based on information it finds in the iPhoto sharing mechanism - but that means that things not shared won't be there, so no slideshows, books or calendars, for instance - but it should get all your events, 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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TD

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As of last night, my display on my Powerbook G4 is also not working properly. I unplugged my AC plug so I could take my laptop to another part of the house and the screen went blank. I thought it went to sleep so I toggled the track pad and some of the keys and nothing. I shut down and reboot several times to start my process of elimination. Here is what I found....The computer will not boot at all unless the wall plug is connected. My battery says it is fully charged though. When the computer is plugged into the wall, if I take the plug out of the computer, the screen goes black. Also if I plug in anything else in any of the other ports, like an external monitor, the screen goes black. When sometimes working with Photoshop CS2 or even Lightroom, the screen will go black and I have to reboot all over again.
Has this happened to anyone else?
Thanks in advance!

Sorry for my M.I.A. Status. The Apple guys have my computer and I have an old iBook I am using. I took the computer back to the Apple Store and had their "Geniuses" look at it. I was able to use the computer with only the new AC adapter I purchased online at MacWizards. My old battery would not charge off of the new plug and neither would the new Apple battery I bought.
The Apple guys diagnosed it as a logic board issue. Since I am not under Apple Care any more, they have a deal where I pay $350 US dollars and they send it to Apple and have anything and everything that is wrong with my computer fixed. They said I will have it back in 3-7 days. That is the option I went for. It is cheaper than buying a new computer...which I will still have to do in about 5 months, but this will do for now!
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Edit screen won't show me my pictures to edit. Full screen goes black.

My first mac. Trying to import pictures from my external drive (FAT32) I imported all my photos, all looks fine, however, when I try to edit one, It takes me to the edit screen with all the photos in the event on top, but it doesn't show the photo I'm trying to edit. I even tried to look at photos fullscreen, and I get the black screen with the top and bottom bars, but no photo on the screen, and after a second, it just all goes black. Interesting thing though, is that I can play a slide show. Has anyone ever had this issue, any help for this newb will be greatly appreciated.

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Post back with the results.
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Note: There's now an Automator backup application for iPhoto 5 that will work with Tiger or Leopard.

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You haven't stated whether you me as part of a slideshow or a web gallery. Nevertheless, it has been requested often enough that at some point I expect we will eventually see it. However, I can't say when or in what form.

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Earlier today, I updated my ATI X1600 Radeon to the latest Windows Catalyst drivers and to the Catalyst Control Center from ATI. Even since, whenever a Windows application (games, in this case) tries to change the resolution on my external Apple Cinema Display (designated as the main monitor in the ATI Catalyst Control Center, with the MacBook Pro display disabled), the display goes black, and the monitor power lamp starts to flash.
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