Make automator pause until previous action completes before starting next a

I'm trying to use Automator to loop through a series of presentations and movies we have, without any user intervention (it's for a project in a reception area of our company). I start with the slideshow and then would like to play the movie -- but I'd like this to happen after the slideshow is completed and not as soon as the slideshow starts. I could try to calculate the time the slideshow will need and place a pause there but this will complicating things (I'd like to be able to tell people to place movies to be displayed in this folder and slideshows in this folder without any reconfiguring of Automator being necessary)?
Is this possible?
Thanks in advance,
David

Solved it! For anyone else with similar issues, I used a quick timer to pause the stage for 1/10th of a second before moving on using the following code;
-- wait for a split second (so user can see blood splatter before next action executes!!)
    startTimer
    repeat while the timer < 0.1*60
      updateStage
    end repeat
Sorted

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