No Sound in QuickTime when Slideshow Exported from iPhoto

Question

I'm currently using iPhoto 2.0.1 and QuickTime Player 7.1.3. When I export a slideshow from iPhoto to QuickTime, a '.mov' file is created. When I play it, I can view the slideshow but there's no sound. Does anyone know why?
Here's how I export a slideshow...
1) Create an album
2) Add pictures to the album
3) With the album selected, click 'Slideshow'
4) Check/select 'Music'
5) Select 'iTunes Library'
6) Select a song
7) Click 'Save Settings'
8) With the album selected...
File > Export > QuickTime > check/select 'Add currently selected music to movie' > Export
By the way, the music in my iTunes library has been Imported from CD's I purchased and is in the format .m4a. Also, the music plays when I view the slideshow within iPhoto.
Thanks!
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Answer 1

Robin,
you have to find a way to "mend" the 4 songs together in iTunes, which I think can be done when you are importing from a CD. Essentially all 4 songs are one song.
Another way to do this, and that is what I do all the time, I export many slideshows.
This envolve the use of QT pro. And you have to cut an paste.
For simplicity, say you have 240 pics and you want to put 4 songs of 1 minute each. It would be 60 pics per minute (assume that the disolve, does not play a role in time displayed). Assume you put 1 sec per slide.
1-find the ending point of the song on the QTslide show.
2- move the right cursor (small triangles usually sitting below the time bar) to the end of the song
3-Notice which picture the song ended up on.
4- Command+N and Command+V will paste the 1st song along with the 60 or so pics, (depending on display time per slide)
Now go back to iPhoto, and select picture 61 to 130 (instead of 120- because the song could be longer that it take to display 60 or 62 pics.
Select a new song #2, save settings bla bla bla
Then export phots 60-120 with song #2.
1-Open this QT file #2, and move the right "triangle" to the far right.
2-Command +C (copy)
Go back to the "previously pasted slideshow #1" and position the cursor at the end of the show- to the far right
3-Command+V paste, the 2nd portion of the slide show #2 at the end of Slide #1.
Repeat the process untill you are done.
When done, save the file as a "self contained" file. That is very important.
Sure enough you end up with a disolve to black, and fade in between each song, but that is the compromise, and it is not too bad to watch after all.
It may seem complicated, but once you do it once or twice, you will do it with your eyes closed!
I think there is also another way to do this, which would envolve exporting all the pics to QT in one shot, then cut and pasting the separate songs in the QT file using a similar method I described above. I tried in the past but was not successfull. I'm not too well verse with the Editing in QT.
Michel