Long slide show- imovie or fcp?

I've made slideshows before using imovie a long time ago, but now I use fcp4 and have for a while. I am making a long (20min or so) slideshow for a funeral/showing and am wondering which software would be more efficient and less time consuming. I want to animate all of the photos (ken burns effect) and I don't know if I should just do the project in imovie and use the ken burns effect or if I should do it in fcp and keyframe everything. This project has been very time consuming already (scanning hundreds of photos) and I would like to do the edit fairly quickly since this is for a funeral and is very time sensitive. Any suggestions?

I feel it's about the same. If you want all photos with same motion, or you want different motions, you'll have to change each photo, Ken Burns effect or key frames in FCP. Transistions can be faster in FCP if you insert w/transistions multiple photos. If you want to have several photos with the same motion, set the KB effect and bring in phots, or in FCP copy the picture with a given motion and paste attributes (basic motion) to multiple photos.
I personally use FCP because I know that "better".

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Apple provides so many different ways to create a slide show I'm not sure which is best?
My highest priority is best possible quality. I prefer the flexibility, though more work, associated with iMovie (06). I own FCE, but it appears to be overkill. iphoto, and iDVD are nice and easy, but limited in control of music, and text overlays....
I recently created a DVD importing from a slide show from iPhoto, keynote, and native iDVD slide shows. I created it using the "proffesional quality" pref setting. it's good, but I don't think it's great! Some flickering on the Ken Burns affects, and text from keynote is a little fuzzy on the edges. I tried to make one with iMovie (06) and the application 'cored' on me (discouraging). But I've had good luck with iMovie in the past.
Can anyone share with me their experience to achieve the highest quality output?
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As a general rule of thumb, Final Cut will usually be your best bet as it is the mini version of the pro app. iMovie '06 is good for quality. iMovie '08 seems to be a more crippled version, though. So, if that is the case, I recommend FCE.
Cheers,
Michael

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hi first of all i'm a new user to mac
but i made a slideshow with music in imovie and after 17hrs work i finally was ready to burn so i shared the slide and then started up in Idvd to make the interface and then burn the dvds
when i look im imovie all photo's are sharp and looks good and when i look in idvd then they look as sharp
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Keep in mind Burned dvd's are low res devices; especially when it comes to pictures and still images. The best you can get is about a third of a megapixel when the image is eventually compressed and burned to standard Dvd-R. But having said this, have you tried making the slideshow within iDvd'08 itself?
It'll look a bit cleaner than the approach you are currently using. There are a few apps that specialize mainly in slideshows. The following apps come highly recommended on this iDvd forum:
http://www.boinx.com/fotomagico/overview/
http://www.lqgraphics.com/software/phototomovie.php
http://www.arizona-software.ch/photopresenter/
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How do I add more than one song to a slide show

What if I have a long slide show (300+) and want to have two or three or ... more songs on it? Any one know how I would do this? PS - This is my first ever post on a forum.

Create a single track out of the multiple songs using audio editing software. Try audacity (free) or if you have a mac, use garage band.

Clarity into IMovie, quicktime, FCP

Hi there:
I've just been handed a PPT which I moved to Keynote. My task is to take the material, add a scripted voice and background music. So I thought the route would be to export the slides to Imovie or FCP. When I exported to Imovie, the text was not as clear as in Keynote.
So to make this presentation with two sound sources, should I make a single sound track of the right length for the sldes (which means I'll need to determine each slide length toward the total project) and stay inside Keynote, or is there a way to export with more clarity (I tried the jpg,tiff and pdf, and they all had the quality loss). Or should I find some other method?
Also, should I use IDVD to put the final product on DVD or Toast Titanium? I do not want all the themes, etc.: just the video.
Thanks.
Powerbook G4 Mac OS X (10.4.7) 1.5 mhz

Don't need anything that complicated! To add music to
the entire slideshow(instead of seperatly in each
slide) just go to -->Inspector --> Document (the
first on the left) chose Document (not Spotlight). In
the bottom you have an Audio field. You can either
add a song file by dragging and dropping or selecting
it in you iTunes. You can make a song loop, only
once, or nothing.
I had the exact problem (music problem) but it's
there in front of our noses...
The thing is, when you export your keynote file to
QuickTime, 2 files will be created: the movie, and
the soundtrack. If you want to simplify the whole
thing use just the movie one and add music manually
(you must have QuickTime Pro for that) by opening the
song file in QuickTime, selecting in the timeline
what part of the song you want to copy, then copy,
and paste in on the movie, placing it in the
timeline.
Hope that was helpfull
Hugs and kisses
CV
Hey:
thanks for the note. Soundwise, however, I still have a problem in Keynote because I need to add 2 audio tracks: one for the music and one for the narration. Keynote offers me one track.
any thoughts?
thanks
--fred

IPhoto's Slide Show allows for only one song !

I love the feature of iPhoto's slide show for a user to accompany a slide show with music from one's iTunes library. However, you can only pick one song. That means that if you have a slide show longer than one songs worth of time (most slide shows will be this way), the song will just keep repeating.
Sure would be nice if there was a way to either play mutiple songs from a user's iTunes playlist. Alternatively, I've heard that the a capability may exist (outside of iTunes) to concatenate multiple songs together to accomplish the same end.
Any suggestions on how to do either of the above?

Hey Baheno,,
there's so many Roads that lead to Rome!
Road #1
You can consolidate 2or more songs together in iTunes and name that (2 in 1) big song, Say, "eye of the tiger 2in 1) so this way it will be easy to locate it in the iTunes library while searching through iPhoto. Else you can create a separate albums in iTunes, and you put there only songs that are combined together.
Road #2
This is the one I prefer. You can export your slide show to QT (Quicktime). it requires some calculation to create a slide show that ends with the end of 1 song. Then you create another QT slide show, that ends with another songs.... etc..... after you merge all the parts together and you have a very long slide show with many songs!
Transitions:
Keep in mind that exporting to quicktime uses only the desolve transition. Which is fine with me. I have seen so many people doing some power point presentation and slide show with photos and using a array of different transitions..... in the same slide show.....it is disturbing, and takes away from viewing pictures. In cinema, it is said: "the thecniques should remain invisible" so keep the disolve transition... it is the least obtrusive .... your viewers, will never complain that there was no "cube effects"! Only you know about the missing effects!
Self contained file.
When you export to QT, you now have a file that you can send people through e-mail (given that it is a reasonable size) or you can even post them on web page! like a .mac page.
When you want to view the show, you just click on the file and play it. No need to start iPhoto. No need to have a MAC, it can be seen on a PC too with QT. You can put it on a CD or DVD, and can be viewed on a DVD player.
But when you play your slide show directly from iPhoto, you have to be in front of your mac, you have to have iPhoto open! But you can have you mac connected to a TV in the living room (I do) and then can play the slide show from iPhoto, using a TV-VGA adaptor that will play on your living room TV for a larger crowd to see. It can also be played through the sound system!!!! infinity and beyond!!
If you want more specific on how to export to QT and merge 2,3,4,5 files post back. I will get more into it.
I always export to QT, because this way, in the future, you do not have to mess around again in selecting the photos needed, and selecting the songs in iPhoto. I just click the QT file, and it will always play the same!
hope this helps!
Michel

Slide shows in IPhoto

How can I play 2 or 3 different songs from Itunes within the same (long) slide show ?
Powerbook Mac OS X (10.4.9)

Aloxi6
Welcome to the Apple Discussions.
Create a playlist in iTunes with the songs you prefer, then, in iPhoto, select the playlist for the slideshow.
Regards
TD

How do I make my keynote or iMovie slide show (with music) into a DVD, without iDVD as I don't have it and you can no longer purchase from Apple.

I am new to Apple, since Oct '11. ( iDVD did not come with this laptop). I am making a slide show in keynote and can't download to iDVD to make it into a DVD that I can play on any home player. As far as I know, I need to make it into a quicktime file, then find some 3rd party software to convert to DVD. Has anyone had any luck with this. I think I may just purchase an old copy of iLife from Amazon...

The iMovie experts are here:
https://discussions.apple.com/community/ilife/imovie

This is my first time using iphoto, I am trying to make a slide show that I can then burn to a dvd. The slide show is complete, but I'm not sure where to go now. Can I burn the slide show from iphoto or do I have to export to imovie or idvd?

I have completed the slide show i am making, but not sure what to do now. I want to burn it to a dvd, but not sure if i can do that from iphoto or do i need to export to imovie or idvd? If i need to export, will iphoto save a copy in iphoto? This may be really stupid, but I don't see an obvious way to save my slide show in iphoto. Please Help!

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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.
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Currently the only sure fire way to get all themes is to start with the iLife 09 disc:
This shows the iDVD contents in the iLife 09 disc via Pacifist:
You then can upgrade from iDVD 7.0.3 to iDVD 7.1.2 via the updaters at the Apple Downloads webpage.
NOTE: If you're running iPhoto 9.5 the export options will be different.
OT

I would like to create a slide show and then burn to a DVD. I may be interested in adding music. Should I use iPhone, iMovie or a simple Powerpoint?

I am going to be creating a slide show and then burning it to a couple of DVDs. I have used PPT in the past for simple slide shows for speaking engagements, but I am interested in adding music to this slide show. What is the best/easiest application to use? iMovie, iPhoto or Powerpoint?
Thanks!
Mike

burning it to a couple of DVDs
Is it your intention to create video DVDS that can be played on TV sets via DVD players? If so you'll need a video DVD authoring application like iDVD.
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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.
If iDVD was not preinstalled on your Mac you'll have to obtain it by purchasing a copy of the iLife 09 disk from a 3rd party retailer like Amazon.com: ilife 09: Software or eBay.com. Why, because iDVD (and iWeb) was discontinued by Apple over a year ago.
Why iLife 09 instead of 11?
If you have to purchase an iLife disc in order to obtain the iDVD application remember that the iLife 11 disc only provides themes from iDVD 5-7. The Software Update no longer installs the earlier themes when starting from the iLIfe 11 disk nor do any of the iDVD 7 updaters available from the Apple Downloads website contain them.
Currently the only sure fire way to get all themes is to start with the iLife 09 disc:
This shows the iDVD contents in the iLife 09 disc via Pacifist:
You then can upgrade from iDVD 7.0.3 to iDVD 7.1.2 via the updaters at the Apple Downloads webpage.
OT

Moving iPhoto slide show to iMovie

Using iPhoto, I created a slide show from a series of photos. I used the Ken Burns effect to add motion to the photos and got everything just right. I wanted to export or move the slide show to iMovie so I could add titles between certain of the photos in the slide show. I found an option to export to iDVD but not iMovie. Shouldn't I be able to move the slide show between iPhoto and iMovie? Eventually, I'll want to move my slide show from iMovie to iDVD, but I want to add the titles between the clips first. Does anyone have any advice regarding this matter?

Using iMovie HD 6, IMO it gives the user much better control over clips, stills and adding audio, you click on a still clip and then click on the Show photo settings button at the bottom of the Media pane. A translucent pane will come up where you can set the KB effect parameters.
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IMovie or iPhoto for slide shows?

I use my digital camera to take photos of our trips, and I save them as DVD slide shows, complete with narration and music, so that my wife and I can enjoy them. However, since I upgraded to iLife 9 I have been having a problem. When I import the slide show into iMovie and then import the edited audio, iMovie "remembers" the first edition of the audio, which means that subsequent edited audio shows the wrong time. I know the audio track (always a MP3 in my case) is right - I have checked it several times. In case the good folks on the iMovie forum can't tell me how to fix that problem in iMovie, my question is this - would I be better off using slideshow in iPhoto, then exporting the whole slideshow in a movie format into iMovie, then cleaning up the whole thing and adding chapters, titles, fancy transitions, etc.? This matching audio to the slide length is taking me 2-3 times longer now than it did in iMovie 7 (iLife 8).

You can give this basic remedy a try for the problem with iMovie. Quit iMovie and delete your iMovie preferences. To do this, go to your username> library> preferences> com.apple.imovie.plist. Delete this file. Then reopen iMovie; it will create a new preference file with all of the default settings.
If you have iMovie HD6, you could use that to get the results you want. I am not familiar with subsequent versions.
Does the slideshow play the way you want in iPhoto? You could create your slideshow with edited music in iPhoto and then export as a QuickTime movie. This movie can then be imported into iDVD for burning.
I hope this helps.

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I am putting together a slide show using iphoto and I wanted to add a description on each slide/photo. How can I do that? Also on the choice of music for the silde show, if the slide show is longer than one song can you chose a different song for background music?

This might help
http://www.apple.com/findouthow/photos/#slideshow
Regards
TD

ITunes classic visualizer no longer works in slide-show mode?

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