New help with "slide show"

Up until 2009 I used Final Cut Express to create "slide shows" using stills, video footage, alpha overlays, and animated transitions with a voice track and one or or more music and audio effects tracks.
In 2009 I retired and later bought a new iMac with Final Cut Pro X and Mountain Lion. "Just for fun."
Naturally, somebody important in my life has now asked me to produce a 5 minute show and I have less than two months to get it done using FCPX.
It needs to be NTSC SD because of the projection equipment available and I'd like to create the stills in Photoshop, just as I did in the "old days".
Can anybody point me toward some material that will help me make this transition to the new software, and rapidly? Unfortunately, the expectations are high.
Please?
Thanks.

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Process:         Final Cut Pro [1012]
Path:            /Applications/Final Cut Pro.app/Contents/MacOS/Final Cut Pro
Identifier:      com.apple.FinalCut
Version:         10.0 (179114)
Build Info:      ProEditor-179110400~1
App Item ID:     424389933
App External ID: 3491984
Code Type:       X86-64 (Native)
Parent Process: launchd [202]
Date/Time:       2011-08-17 17:57:45.775 -0600
OS Version:      Mac OS X 10.7.1 (11B26)
Report Version: 9
Interval Since Last Report:          50891 sec
Crashes Since Last Report:           1
Per-App Interval Since Last Report: 2401 sec
Per-App Crashes Since Last Report:   1
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I'm sorry, you're right! Didn't intend to be lazy...
This line loads the image in the loader 'slideLoader'. This seems to work fine with image files (.jpg), but .swf files are ignored. Is it possible to load both .jpg AND .swf files in a loader, or do I have to use some other method for this?
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Thanks again,
Dirk

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I've been lurking in the iMovie discussions for a couple of months now, and I'm trying to absorb the knowledge of the community. I'm also working my way through "The Missing Manual" which is invaluable. I have two projects in mind, so I'm starting two threads to ask for advice.
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Hi Joe
Q1: About 300 to 600 slides sounds OK when there is a line in the story and
some nice music also will make it easier to appreciate.
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them to high quality jpegs and into the new folder. I wouldn't do anything about
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in thin lines. (You need to connect Your miniDV camera to Your Mac and to
a TV-set to be able to judg final quality). Then I would manually open each of
them in PhotShop and add a little "Gaussian blurr" to them.
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Today I have been trying to create a new slide show and add some music that I added to iTunes specifically for the slide show. All I get is a spinning disk and no response in iPhoto. The computer is not 'frozen' and I can access and use other applications while the disk spins in iPhoto, but iPhoto is stalled. I have had to force quit several times.
Any ideas? The iPhoto is 4.0.3 and the iTunes is 5.0.1. I am running on an eMac from last year.
Thanks.

It may mean that there's another preference file in your User Preferences folder that is incompatible with iPhoto. I ran across this troubleshooting method a while back.
Trouble Shooting Preferences
Go to HD/Users/Your_name/Library. Move the Prefs folder (in its entirety) to the desktop. Start iPhoto. Determine if problem is fixed.
If the problem IS fixed, then go to the new Prefs folder that the OS will have created and open it up. Except for those items that are obviously not related, move the contents to the old Prefs folder on the desktop, replacing what had been there. When in doubt, move the item. The worst thing that can happen is a harmless "alert" message. Then, trash what remains of the new folder. Finally, move the old (but modified) Prefs folder back to the library.
If the problem is NOT fixed, trash the new Prefs folder and move the old one back to its original location.
Otherwise you might want to reinstall the 10.3.9 COMBO updater followed by a permissions repair and reinstall iPhoto 4 from scratch and update it. If you do reinstall V4 you'll have to delete the current application and all files with "iPhoto" in the file name that reside in the HD/Library/Receipts folder.

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I would like to click a picture and then have a new window
open with a
larger image in it or is there a way to make a slide show.
Seen earlier
posts but they link to $$$
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Save music selection with slide show

If I select a series of photo's for a slide show & give this series a name & then select a music track of appropriate length can I save all this so that next tine I open the slide show I don't have to reselect music?

It may mean that there's another preference file in your User Preferences folder that is incompatible with iPhoto. I ran across this troubleshooting method a while back.
Trouble Shooting Preferences
Go to HD/Users/Your_name/Library. Move the Prefs folder (in its entirety) to the desktop. Start iPhoto. Determine if problem is fixed.
If the problem IS fixed, then go to the new Prefs folder that the OS will have created and open it up. Except for those items that are obviously not related, move the contents to the old Prefs folder on the desktop, replacing what had been there. When in doubt, move the item. The worst thing that can happen is a harmless "alert" message. Then, trash what remains of the new folder. Finally, move the old (but modified) Prefs folder back to the library.
If the problem is NOT fixed, trash the new Prefs folder and move the old one back to its original location.
Otherwise you might want to reinstall the 10.3.9 COMBO updater followed by a permissions repair and reinstall iPhoto 4 from scratch and update it. If you do reinstall V4 you'll have to delete the current application and all files with "iPhoto" in the file name that reside in the HD/Library/Receipts folder.

Voice narration with slide shows?

When I was a kid we loved having slide shows of the family vacations. Since 1991 I've tried to find a way for my dad to record a narration to go with scanned slides. Hypercard was too hard to use. Photoshop and iPhoto allow attaching a little text to the photos but no voice (as far as I can figure out). I just spent $300 on iView MediaPro, which is supposed to be iPhoto on steroids. My dad and I sent in 50 slides to a scanning lab, then we sat down and recorded 30 seconds of narration with each slide. The good news is that it works. We can run a slide show with his narration. Someday his grandchildren, great-grandchildren, etc. will enjoy it. The bad news is that iView MediaPro is frustrating to use. Even I had problems getting it to do what I wanted. There was no way that my 79-year-old father could have done this himself. iView MediaPro looks like it was designed for Windows, badly, then ported over to the Mac. It allows only 30 seconds narration per slide. The slides can be exported to Quicktime as a movie -- without the voice narration. So to run our slide show you have to have iView MediaPro. That's $300 each for my brothers. Is there a better way to do this? I can't believe that I'm the only person who wants a narrated slide show. Last weekend at a party a friend showed his slides from his family's European vacation. Everyone was asking questions and oohing and aahing and making comments. Wouldn't it be nice to record all this and attach the sound to each slide? His only grandchild is just a baby, but in 40 years she'd be happy to watch his slide show.

Thomas:
I've become intrigued with you narrated slideshow idea and was giving it some thought last night. Since I don't have a microphone to test out my theory I'll just post it here for your consideration. In creating a slideshow that your relatives can view and listen to with the Reader application I believe you'll have to burn to the disc the original image files and the associated audio files along with the catalog file. That's because the catalog file will only contain thumbnails of the images and links to the originals and the audio files. They won't be able to play with the catalog file alone. Here's what I believe you're work flow will have to be like:
1 - assemble the files for the slideshow into the same physical folder.
2 - when making the narration make sure the audio files are saved to the same folder if at all possible (I don't know how that works).
3 - Now when you ready to burn the disc with the files, put the disc in and copy (Option-Drag to insure you're copying and not just getting aliases) the slideshow file folder, audio files and the catalog file to the CD. I'd also include the Reader for both Mac and PC.
4 - before burning, open the copy of the catalog file that's on the CD to be burned and reset the paths to all of the files. (There will be red tag associated with the folder icon for that folder in the Catalog Folder pane. Open the mini menu at the right and select "Reset Folder Path".
5 - once the paths are reset close iView and open the Reader to make sure all is well.
6 - now burn the disc.
I wish I had a microphone to test this out because it is intriguing. You can download the demo of iView and run a test on the process before committing to the purchase. If and when you do, post to the iView user forum. Good luck.
OT

Action Script Newbie has problem with Slide Show Pro

Hi,
here is a demo page -
http://www.libertypromotions.com/asptest/newsite/cars/product_page.htm.
The flash gallery in the top left is my problem child. I am
using Slide Show pro to display my images but I want to add some
external buttons that will switch albums when you click them (all
images are in there own album, giving me the Grid effect when you
click see all) I have asked for help on how to do this on their
forums, but they are useless (so far) so I came here. Below is the
code SSP provides for external Next/Previous buttons that switch
images inside albums.
I am hoping someone here knows SSP well enough to help me
with this.
Thanks in advance.

cowenstx,
Javascript is VERY different from Java. Your code example is Javascript, a scripting language invented by Netscape. Do a web search for "javascript images" for lots of good pointers.

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