Music Stutters on slide transition

My slide shows' audio stutters between slides if I use any transition choice other than "None". They all play fine on the computer but stutter in the DVD player (it is a new DVD player).

Here is some advice about encoding and burning that I found in a post by SDMacUser, one of the very knowledgeable posters in this forum:
It is best Not to disturb the encoding process. Set your energy saving controls within system pref's to "never". This will speed things up as well.
Encoding durations depend heavily on the type and clock speed of the CPU as well as available HD space and memory. Keep in mind that the more apps or utilities one opens while encoding, the greater the chances for a multiplexing error somewhere along the line. So my recommendation is to not fuss with your mac while allowing for encoding to take place. Give it time to do its job. On my own mac system/s I set it to encode during night hours when I use the computer the least. And normally when I wake in the AM I'll have a completed Dvd. Yes, encoding can seem to take forever but it's best not to interrupt this process. A word to the wise, be patient. And lastly, use quality media like Verbatim and Maxell. Don't exceed 4x burn speeds (the lower the better in most cases). Many of us also burn from a disk image which is an even better idea since it allows you to test playback with apple's dvd player prior to committing your presentation to Dvd-R.
Btw, there is no better app for burning quality Dvd's (short of apple's DVDSP). Toast may be faster at times on certain types of files but not always better when it comes to quality.
I hope this helps.

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I have created a six slide dissolve in Keynote 6.5. The dissolve takes about 18 seconds complete. I would like to have some subtle music play over the transition. I know I can have music play in just one slide or over he entire presentation. But I just need the music to start on slide 10 (automatic dissolve) and end on slide 16. Is it possible? Thanks!

The work around is to place the sound file and all the images associated with the music, on a single slide, and use builds to create the animation.

Varying the Slide Transition Time Interval in Slide Show with Music

I have this old iPhoto 4.0.3 version in my PowerBook. Is it possible to create a slide show that's put to music? More importantly, can the transition from slide to slide be varied (e.g., one slide changes after 4 seconds; the next slide changes after 10 seconds; the slide after changes after 6 seconds, etc.) or am I limited to one consistent slide transition interval? Do I need to upgrade to a newer version of iPhoto? Or do I need to use an entirely different application to do varying slide transition time intervals?
Thank you.
Michael

No, you can't vary the time interval in the same slide show.
There are many ways to produce slide shows using iPhoto, iMovie or iDVD, but they all have one thing in common: they reduce the quality of the photos to that of a movie still frame and sometimes limit the number of photos you can use.
If what you want is what I want, namely to be able to use high resolution photos (even 300 dpi tiff files), to pan and zoom individual photos, use a variety of transitions, to add and edit music or commentary, place text exactly where you want it, and to end up with a DVD that looks good on both your Mac and a TV - in other words end up with and end result that does not look like an old fashioned slide show from a projector - you may be interested in how I do it. You don't have to do it my way, but the following may be food for thought!
Firstly you need proper software to assemble the photos, decide on the duration of each, the transitions you want to use, and how to pan and zoom individual photos where required, and add proper titles. For this I use Photo to Movie. You can read about what it can do on their website:
http://www.lqgraphics.com/software/phototomovie.php
(Other users here use the alternative FotoMagico: http://www.boinx.com/fotomagico/homevspro/ which you may prefer - I have no experience with it.)
Neither of these are freeware, but are worth the investment if you are going to do a lot of slide shows. Read about them in detail, then decide which one you feel is best suited to your needs.
Once you have timed and arranged and manipulated the photos to your liking in Photo to Movie, it exports the file to iMovie 6 as a DV stream. You can add music in Photo to Movie, but I prefer doing this in iMovie where it is easier to edit. You can now further edit the slide show in iMovie just as you would a movie, then send it to iDVD 7, or Toast, for burning.
You will be pleasantly surprised at how professional the results can be!

IMovie 08 Slideshow - sync slide transitions to music?

Does anyone know how to sync slide transitions to music in iMovie '08? I naively assumed this would be easy, but I can't figure out any way to do this. The idea is that I want to vary the timing of some slide transitions in order to keep to the beat of the soundtrack.....
Thanks in advance

I made a simple mistake in the code.
wrong:
keystroke "space bar"
right:
keystroke space
Now the infinite loop runs in iMovie!

When trying to add music to a slide show from my PC to TV through Apple Tv the photos are fine but I get an error message that says the music cannot be downloaded.

When trying to add music to a slide show from my PC to TV through Apple Tv the photos are fine but I get an error message that says the music cannot be downloaded.

Because the location for each song in your library is on your hard drive. If the hard drive isn't there, how can iTunes play it?
You'll have to move/copy the music from your hard drive to your computer's hard drive.
Basically, EASIEST way to do all this, if you don't care about your play counts, etc...
-Delete EVERYTHING from iTunes, so that your library is now empty.
-Go to "Advanced" inside of the "Preferences" window, found in the "Edit" drop-down. You can also access Preferences by pressing Ctrl+, (Press Ctrl and the comma key)
-Change your iTunes Media Folder Location to something simple, but on your computer. I use C:/iTunes. Make sure "Keep iTunes Media Folder Organized" and "Copy files to...." are both checked. You can close Preferences now.
-Now, drag and drop your music from your hard drive into your iTunes library. iTunes will automatically add the music to your library, as you would expect, and also creates a copy of each file to place into that iTunes Media Folder you just created.
Shouldn't have any more problems...

Slide transition animation and image in the slide master

Hi,
I placed an image in one of the slide masters, because I want that image static in the slide background. But when I add a transition to the slides made with that master, the image I placed is animated too. Should I do something else in the slide master so the image I placed is not affected by the slide transition?
Macbook Pro Retina with OS X Yosemite and Keynote 6.5
Regards.

There is no such thing as an object transition, objects are animated using Builds or Actions: Inspector > Animate
I'm referring to "Object Effects" in the Transitions pull down (Object Push, Object Revolve, Object Flip, etc). So yes, technically there is an Object (transition) effect where objects transition between slides.
Backgrounds do not animate when using Builds or Actions.
True. However, if you use the last version of Keynote (before 6.5 and the Yosemite update) and place an image on the master slide it will not animate when applying many of the Object Effects.
When an action or or Build is applied to an objet, the slide or the background does not animate, only the object animates.
Same point as I made above.
No EnzoFT said, "when I add a transition to the slides made with that master, the image I placed is animated too."
EnzoFT was using a slide transition therefore any object on a slide will be included in the effect.
If you try what I said above in the previous version of Keynote, it will not animate. However, I found out how to make an image on the master slide NOT animate in Keynote 6.5 (I made a comment earlier in the thread about this). Open the master slide, select the Slide Layout, change the background to Image Fill, and the image won’t animate from one slide to the next when you apply an Object Effects transition to a slide.
That is a very narrow minded personal opinion.
Selecting a transition, Build or Action should be based on how it enhances the presentation and what you want to animate; the slide, the object or both.
Narrow minded personal opinion?!? Do you really need to go there? I was simply making an observation.
Use Builds or Actions.
There has been no change; Transitions affect the whole slide, Builds and Actions affect objects on a slide.
If you try what I mentioned above there has been a change. Thanks for offering advice, but doing a little research in the future before replying to issues will help with providing more accurate information.

I am trying to add music to my slide show and I get this error:

I am trying to add music to my slide show and I get this error: The selected file cannot be played because your system does not have the required compressor/decompressor (codec) installed. I went to the Adobe site and downloaded a codec program, and restarted but still got the same error. Any help would be much appreciated.
Anne

Thank you - I followed the instructions attached to your response, and I deleted the artwork from the three songs that I want to use, however, when I drag them into Photoshop I am still getting the same error message. I also don't see an option to convert the song to an MP3. I tried going to File and Get Info, and there isn't an option. I also tried right click on the song, but didn't see anything there either...?

Slide transitions are choppy only on replay

When I watch a video I've created (either using the F4
preview or after publishing to SWF), the initial view functions as
planned. When I click my 'Replay' button on the last slide,
transitions between slides with a 10 or 15% transparent image don't
transition properly. The video "jumps". Here are my details...
Using Captivate 3
Projects range in size, but are fairly average-to-small
* 15 - 30 slides
* 0:50 - 1:50 in length
2 slides next to each other each have a .PNG image to fade
out the background, so text can be read more easily
* 10% or 15% transparency set on the images
* No transition set between slides
* No Fade in or Fade out set on images
'Replay' button jumps to Slide 2. Get the same behavior
jumping to Slide 1.
If I use the 'Restart/Replay' button on the Playbar, the
slides transition smoothly. Here's a sample of what happens:
GlitchyExample
Anyone experienced this? Anyone got a clue?
Thanks,
Marty

kidogo said...
quote:
Which "best practices" are you referring to? If there an
official "best practices" document I may have overlooked? I've
configured the video using Captivate's features, so I'm not sure
how the results are "predictable." It works beautifully on the
first run, and the glitch doesn't occur until the replay. That
sounds like a timing issue inside Captivate (my junior member
analysis).
The "best practices" that I refer to are written, but
in a thousand posts and emails over years and years, not as an
intentionally constructed volume of work available by itself.
Sorry. Your "junior member analysis" is not to be taken lightly,
and I apologize if I made it sound like it was being so construed.
My apologies are hereby offered, if any are needed.
I think now I might have mis-read your original post, as it
seemed then that you were assigning the transparency and some other
attributes to the PNG image prior to insertion to Captivate,
thinking those attributes would be mimicked within Captivate.
Reading your last, it appears that was an incorrect translation on
my part. I do see what you refer to as "glitchy", however, and
don't have a fix for it aside from leaving off the objects that
seem to be causing it - or accepting that a "replay" can be worked
around or avoided entirely. Sorry I don'thave anything to offer
that is more to the point of your complaint. Maybe someone else ...
regards~
Larry

Music with a slide show

In I tunes, I croped some song to start at a particular location. This works fine in Itunes. However, when I use this music for a slide show in Iphoto, it plays the entire song insted of starting at the cropped point. Why?, and how do I fix it?

Alan:
Welcome to the Apple Discussions. The iTunes edits work only for iTunes. To trim a track in any way you'll need to do it with another application. You can do it in Garageband. I use the 3rd party editor Amadeus Pro. There are some freeware editors like Audacity. With Amadeus I can open a track select that portion I want to use and copy to a new file and then save. I do that for iDVD slideshows when I want to set the music for a specific total time for the number of slides that I've selected. Works very nicely. IMO Garageband is overkill for simple editing and I don't have it installed.
Another way to achieve what you want is to export the slideshow without music and edit it in iMovie. There you can add the audio tracks, trim, overlap,etc. and then save the composite movie file.
Do you Twango?
TIP: For insurance against the iPhoto database corruption that many users have experienced I recommend making a backup copy of the Library6.iPhoto database file and keep it current. If problems crop up where iPhoto suddenly can't see any photos or thinks there are no photos in the library, replacing the working Library6.iPhoto file with the backup will often get the library back. By keeping it current I mean backup after each import and/or any serious editing or work on books, slideshows, calendars, cards, etc. That insures that if a problem pops up and you do need to replace the database file, you'll retain all those efforts. It doesn't take long to make the backup and it's good insurance.
I've written an Automator workflow application (requires Tiger), iPhoto dB File Backup, that will copy the selected Library6.iPhoto file from your iPhoto Library folder to the Pictures folder, replacing any previous version of it. You can download it at Toad's Cellar. Be sure to read the Read Me pdf file.

Hi just updated to ios7 Speaker make No sound in music player Volume slider is not functioning at all , it's grey Ringtones works fine. I have apple tv in my local network so in ios 7 music player i switched to play through airplay And back to iphone -

Hi just updated to ios7
Speaker make No sound in music player
Volume slider is not functioning at all , it's grey
Ringtones works fine.
I have apple tv in my local network so in ios 7 music player i switched to play through airplay
And back to iphone - no sound
Also tried another music player same **** - plays no sound
iPhone 4S, iOS 7

Hello there, vishnu cs.
The following Knowledge Base article provides some great information for troubleshooting your issue:
iPhone: No sound or distorted sound from speaker
http://support.apple.com/kb/ts5180
Thanks for reaching out to Apple Support Communities.
Cheers,
Pedro.

Making slide transition appear in build overwiev

In the new Keynote '13, I'm not able to set a slide transition animation, appear after a previous build. The slide transition doesn't even appear in the buildoverwiev window.
I have a headline, I have assagined an build out animation to, this starts with a click, after that has happen I would like the slidetransition to happen automatically. But as it is now I can't choose to have the slidetransition happen after previous, as it dosen't appear in the buildoverwiev. I can only force the slidetransition with another click.
Any fix to this?

To be correct; the latest Keynote is version 6.1 not 13.
Slide transitions are not builds, they are a separate type of effect. Only Builds appear in the Builds Order List. Builds are effects for objects, transitions are effects for slides.
The effects you want can easily be achieved however;
to add the build to the object on the slide:
click the object on the slide to select, Inspector > Animate > Build Out > Add an effect
to add a transition for the slide:
click the slide in the Navigator pane to select, Inspector > Animate > Add an effect >
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in the Start Transition dropdown menu, seect Automatically

I want to add music to a slide show

I want to add music to a slide show but only let music play for a certain number or slides then a different song for the next set of slides...how do i do this?

Hello Auchattie
What are you using to create the slideshow? If you have iMovie for your iPhone then you can add different music tracks for specific parts for the photos that you added for the slideshow. Check out the page below as it is the user guide to do create a slideshow as well as adding different songs and adjusting it to only play a small part.
iMovie Help for iPhone
http://help.apple.com/imovie/iphone/2.0/index.html
Regards,
-Norm G.

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Hi Rodney,
Here's what you do.
When you click on music and the window opens, click on your library then look at the bottom of the window where you will see a small clear dot - click and drag this up and voila - there's the music.
A very annoying feature that iPhoto hides this section by default.

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Output type
Flash SWF, and MP4
I have a powerpoint (2010) I imported into Captivate. The slides do contain animations, mostly fade in, and fly in. No exit animimations, all are enterance. Captivate is using the animation times set in PowerPoint as I expect, and that works well for me. I did add narration audio using Captivate for each slide. After I have everything set, I produce the project as MP4 successfully.
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