Manual slideshow problems

One thing I often need to do is show a bunch of my photos as a slideshow. I like to do that in manual mode, so i can choose when to go forward or back. On my new dual-core 2GHz G5, the manual slideshow feature works terribly. When I hit the forward arrow, there can be a long delay, and then a small version (bigger than a thumbnail) appears, and after another 5-10 seconds it finally expands to full size. If I go back to the previous image, it goes through that 10-20 second delay again, even though the image was just displayed a moment before. Automated slideshows work better. There's still a pretty long delay between photos (even if I set the time very short), but at least it doesn't change until the full-screen version is ready to display.
There is a setting to "use proxy images" for faster speed, but the resulting images can be pretty terrible. They looked like the original images without any of my post-processing (no sharpening, etc.)
Normally I'd just open the files in a different program, such as iView Media, and have a slideshow that moved quickly between images, without ever displaying shrunken versions. But if I use Aperture as my primary tool, this will be problematic because I won't have easy access to the images. Would I have to output all the images as jpegs just to show a slideshow? That seems like a big drawback and waste of disk space. Has anyone encountered the same problem or have suggestions for showing slideshows when using Aperture as the primary photo organizer?
Paul

I've hd the same problem since upgrading from 3 to 5. Sometimes only the first slide will show while the next show is okay... I also found trying to navigate backwards won't work with iDVD5. I had to use iPhoto to do what I needed & export the slides as a movie. A real pain, but it did work. I hope they fix this. Of all things, a slide show should be a piece of cake. But try the iPhoto route in you're in a bind.

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Sorry this reply isn't about creating mannual slideshow button, but it might help solving what you want. You said you want to "lets the user
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What I did with my slideshow:
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To make the users more aware of the "possibility of going back and forth", or simply to tell the user what the next/ previous slide is, you can create dummy "button" (I just do it with arrow symbol or text "Next" and "Previous") in the appropriate position on the slide. This "button" is only to tell the user there is a next and previous, it doesn't interact. But what it does is making the user press "next" and "back" in the controller.
I hope this help.
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Am using Photoshop Elements 8 and trying to make a slideshow. Have tried 4 times now and keep ending up with same problem, cannot reopen project to continue edititing. Won't show up in orginizer and when I find on harddrive and try to open get message " wmv file cannot be opened". How can I save a
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have gotten so frustrated that I want to just scream.
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Thanks for the help, thought I had done so but maybe not. Anyway will have another go at it, now may I ask another
question? I am trying to add audio to slideshow. I have some music I purchased thru amazon as mp3 files but I get
message no codec and when I try to add wmv I get same message. What type of file do I need and how can I add
multiple songs to one slideshow. I have one little wmv file that will go in, but it just replicates itself multiple times until
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Thanks again, sorry to be a bother, but this thing is driving this old man crazy.
Date: Sun, 26 Dec 2010 20:34:32 -0700
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: Please help with slideshow problems!
You need to save the slideshow project in order to be able to go back later and make changes or additions to an existing slideshow . The wmv file is a final output format.
Now you are most probably using only the Output command: that is what makes the wmv file.
You should also do the Save Project command. (and I make it a practice to do the Save Project command before I do the Output command).
If you look at the Elements Organizer 8 Help, there is a topic on "Create a slide show".
-- Very close to the beginning of that topic is a screen shot of the Sldie Show Editor screen,
-- The bar below the usual menu bar is labeled with a "B" and called the Shortcuts bar.
-- The 1st entry on that Shortcuts bar is "Save Project"
It is the Save Project command that saves the information about which photos, audio, etc you placed in that specific slide show so that you can come back again to do subsequent editing. Save each Project with a unique name.
After completing the Save Project command, you shoud see an "icon" in the Organizer for that slide show.
Note: you must also keep the photo files and audio files which you have used in this slide show: you can't delete them because the project file does NOT contain a copy of the photos, it only has the identification and folder location of the photo and audio files.
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Manual slideshow navigation problems

I have a project with three slide shows of PSD images. The slide shows all have the same settings in that they are set for manual navigation and I have the navigation buttons shown.
In preview everything works but once burnt as a DVD none of these work and the problem is not entirely consistent.
Slide show one
When selected from the main menu the first slide is shown. Pressing the arrows does nothing nor does pressing enter. Slides can only be navigated by pressing the skip chapter buttons.
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I've hd the same problem since upgrading from 3 to 5. Sometimes only the first slide will show while the next show is okay... I also found trying to navigate backwards won't work with iDVD5. I had to use iPhoto to do what I needed & export the slides as a movie. A real pain, but it did work. I hope they fix this. Of all things, a slide show should be a piece of cake. But try the iPhoto route in you're in a bind.

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Hello illustrious experts! I couldn't find this addressed so her goes..
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This is for the record...and if anyone has answers to my problems it will be appreciated. So here goes...
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