PDF-Slideshow not synchronized with music

Question

I built a slideshow with PSE 5 and added music to it. I export the show as a wmv-file as well as a pdf-file. Playing the mwv-file with the windows media player everything works well but playing the pdf-file the music ends nearly 20 seconds before the slide show (which takes about 4 minutes in total). The music doesn't interrupt or lacks something, it seems that it's playing faster than the slides with the Acrobat Reader (latest version). Any suggestions to address this? Regards Andreas

Answer 1

My guess is that displaying the PDF file is effected by the resources of the PC on which it is being played. Over the last few years, other people have posted that the timing of playing a PDF slide show is not totally consistent.
Since you say the slides are presented slower, it seems that this could be caused by a slower processor, a video card with a small amount of memory, or other processes and programs that are running at the same time on that PC.
suggestion:
You did not post which choice you made for resolution when you did the output of the PDF file. If you used full size images, then I suggest that you create another Output PDF file with the choice of optimizing for display on screen and see if that eliminates or decreases the gap where the music ends before the photos.
Why I suggested this:
If the PDF file is created with the images at a lower resolution, then less processing may be required at the time the PDF is displayed.