Making a movie with a self-playing slideshow

Hello,
I've been working hard on this slideshow with background music, videos and photos that are all timed to work automatically. Now I'm just trying to make it into a movie to put online and nothing's working! They either want manual timing or a fixed time. I recorded it and tried to do the recorded timing, but then the music plays over itself, the timing's off and the audio is really bad. I want it to look just the way it is when I hit Play Slideshow.
Anyone know how I can do it?
Thanks!

With the file open, click share, then export as quicktime movie. Did you try that? It should make your exact presentation into a movie.
You would need to set times for the slide transitions...but it sounds like you have done that.
Im new too, but I did do this and it worked. I believe it defaulted to a slide transition time, you may have to override that for your custom times.

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I don't know what you mean by saying the number of pictures is limited - you can have as many as you want.
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Ian.
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