Saving slideshows

Slideshow is not saving after you watch it once. Any ideas?

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Kens Burns effects not saved in "original" saved slideshows in iphoto 11

i upgraded from iphoto 9 to iphoto 11. I have several saved slideshows. When I opened the saved slideshows in iphoto11 some of the Ken Burns effects were lost (some turned out to be Ken Burns effects on a landscape photos). I tried to add the Ken Burns effects to the landscape photo in the "original theme" and could not do so. The effect would operate until I closed iphoto11 and then would fail to operate when I reopened iphoto and ran the saved slideshow. This also occurred when I made a new saved slideshow. This issue only occurred in landscape photos and did not occur in portrait photos. The Ken Burns effects on a portait photo was updated when going from 9 to 11 and new Ken Burns effects could be added to a new and old saved slideshow.
Of the 12 Themes in saved slideshows only Ken Burns and Original have Ken Burns effects available. The Ken Burns effects are saved when Iphoto 11 is closed for both portrait and landscape photos in the Ken Burns theme and for portrait photos in the Original Theme. Landscape photos did not save in the "original theme"
I wondered if some how my library was corrupted so I went to a MAC store and made saved slideshows using their machine and their iphoto 11. I reproduced these results on an Apple store IMAC. Apple is aware

SixPack:
Welcome to the Apple Discussions. As TD pointed out, making a QT movie file of a slideshow involves rendering which is then encoded once again in iDVD. IMO, the best image quality for a slideshow is obtained when you create the slideshow entirely within iDVD. Of course there's no KB effect.
If you create the show in iMovie you can get around the double encoding by closing iMovie once the slideshow is finished. Then open the iMovie project file/package (Option-click on the project file and select Show Package Contents option), find the iDVD folder and drag the .mov file in it into the open iDVD window. This will let iDVD do the rendering of the various transitions and special effects and provide a better final product.
You must remember that iDVD's final resolution is only 640 x 480.
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.

IPhoto '11 Saved Slideshow not saving settings for individual slides

Please, need help in iPhoto '11 with Saved Slideshows. I will try rephrasing my question as I received no answers when I posted yesterday. I create my Saved Slideshow by choosing File>New>Slideshow. It then shows up at the bottom of my Source List under Slideshows. I am trying to have individual settings for each slide: timing, transition, and Ken Burns effect. I check each box in the "This Slide" menu and type in what I want. When I exit the Saved Slideshow the first two settings are saved and as I left them, but the KB box is no longer checked. It works fine when I click "Preview." I have carefully read all the forum discussions dating back to last fall and see that I am not the only one with the problem. Like others I noticed that the KB effect won't "stick" only on certain slides, mostly Landscape images. KB settings for Portrait images seem to "hold." I'm not a novice in creating Saved Slideshows. I've done this in iPhoto '08 with no problem at all. I reported this to Apple as a possible bug. I feel like there is now no way I can make the slideshow I want to burn to a DVD to share with family and view on a TV. As far as I can tell you can't do KB effects for individual slides in the latest version of iDVD without having made a Saved Slideshow in iPhoto first. Can anyone help me? I am so frustrated.

I am 99% sure that this has something to do with how NEF files work. If I understand them correctly, the original raw data is stored in one portion of the file and then versions of the file are stored within it (these are the 'versions' that you can make in NX2). The versions are just whatever mathematical transformations are applied to the raw data to get the version of the image that you want to see. It is a brilliant way to store information and many versions of photos (different sizes of crops, b/w, colour, sepia, etc...) in their highest possible resolution without taking up an inordinate amount of disk space. The raw data are huge, but each version only adds a tiny bit to the size.
The problem with iPhoto is that it can only see the raw data - not the metadata containing all of the transformations to get the edited version of the photo. This means that if you load the photos into the iphoto library as nef files and then edit them with an external editor (i.e. NX2), the files will be edited, and when you open them again in NX2 from iPhoto, then you'll see the edits, but the edited version will not be visible in iPhoto. If you work with NX2 and iPhoto (as I do), you basically need to save your edited versions of files as .jpg or .tiff and then re-import them into iPhoto. It is a bit of a pain, but I am sure that it could be fixed in a future version of iPhoto.
Cheers.

Saved Slideshow won't open in iDVD 6

In iPhoto 6 I made a saved slideshow of 83 of my photos. I then also made another saved slideshow of the exact same photos but clicking that I wanted to repeat the slideshow. I then clicked on each slideshow individually and clicked "send to iDVD". After both slideshows were sent to iDVD and completely "digested" I clicked on the second and sent to Advanced and clicked "loop". I burned the DVD. When viewing on the television it opens the first slideshow, plays it once and goes back to the main theme window like it should. When I click on the second slideshow it won't open at all. It clicks on it like it is going to open but never does. What am I doing wrong? I've burned it several times and the looped slideshow will never open.

Hi Deborah,
I would go back to iphoto and then export your slideshow as a quicktime file.
Put that file into iDVD by dragging it in and then try burning again.
Alternately you can go to the Advanced menu in iDVD and choose "Delete Encoded Assets" and try again - but I don't think that would apply in this case.
The fact that it does not play at all on the resulting DVD makes me think something is wrong with the original slideshow, or with the copy that made it into iDVD.
Hope that helps!

Drop Saved Slideshows to Photo or Movie Section?

I have 2 saved slideshows I created in iPhoto. What is the best way to use iDVD to get both of them onto one dvd?
I have tried using Magic iDVD and dropped both slideshows into the photo section. I named the dvd, but I cannot see a way to name the two slideshows there. They just show up as Slideshow 1 and Slideshow 2. Is there a way to create names for them?
I tried dragging them into the movie section, and the dvd worked. The only problem is that some of the photos in the slideshow (particularly ones that were cropped) had dark around them, rather than filling the screen. While those were moving across the screen (or in or out using Ken Burns), the edges were shaking quite a bit, and that is very distracting.
So, let's start at the point where I have 2 Saved Slideshows in iPhoto. What is the best way to get them to iDVD, and then the best way to get them onto one dvd with the titles I want, and best quality?
Joe

I would reccomend not to partition, there really is no need.
Format as Mac OS Extended; I don't journal but some people do.
You can certainly use the drive as your scratch disk and as storage.
I just create folders for what I need; so a folder for the scratch disk/media drive a project. I make a folder called Video and this is what I set in FCE System Settings. Captured video goes there and it creates the other folders like Render files. I also create separate folders for Music, Pics, Titles whatever else I need for the project. I keep the actual project files on the system drive where FCE lives
On the same HDD you could have other folders for things like music libraries, old project files, any other kind of media you want. Remember, you will always use all the extra space you can muster so by not partioning you are giving yourself the max amount of room possible
I work with large, multiple projects so at the is point I have drives that are strictly for storage but this just a space issue. Starting out, I had multiple folders on the same drive with no issues. Just keep track of where everything is

WHY CAN'T I SEE SAVED SLIDESHOWS ON APPLE TV?

HAVE A SAVED SLIDESHOW ON IPHOTO AND IT DOES NOT SHOW UP ON APPLE TV MENU.

Make sure it is fully compatible. If converted what did you use?
H.264 video up to 720p, 30 frames per second, Main Profile level 3.1 with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps per channel, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats
MPEG-4 video, up to 2.5 Mbps, 640 by 480 pixels, 30 frames per second, Simple Profile with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats
Motion JPEG (M-JPEG) up to 35 Mbps, 1280 by 720 pixels, 30 frames per second, audio in ulaw, PCM stereo audio in .avi file format

PH2423 How do you get text pages in a project to a saved slideshow?

Hi Peeps, My project is a book which has photos AND text pages. I can get the photos to the saved slide show but not the text pages. Can someone advise?

This is a book created in iPhoto, right? If so then do the following:
1 - while in the book mode type Command +P to start the print process.
2 - click on the PDF button and select "Save PDF to iPhoto".
Note: If you don't have any of those options go to Toad's Cellar and download these two files:
Save PDF to iPhoto 200 DPI.workflow.zip
Save PDF to iPhoto 200 DPI.workflow.zip
Unzip the files and place in the HD/Library/PDF Services folder and reboot.
4 - select either of the files above (300 dip is used for photos to be included in a book that will be ordered).
5 - in the window that comes up enter an album name or select an existing album and hit the Continue button.
That will create a 200 or 300 dpi jpeg file of the item being printed and import it into iPhoto. Then you can use the entire book as the slideshow or just those pages that are text.
This process was used to create this iWeb slideshow: iPhoto Book as an iWeb Slideshow
OT

Iphoto not saving slideshow settings

HELP! I am DESPERATE!!!!! I have been working on a 45 minute slideshow for my parents 50th wedding anniversary party ALL WEEK. Iphoto is NOT SAVING my settings for the transisions between photos or the time each slide plays for. It is happening at random. No one at Apple has been able to help me...as a matter of fact I thought I was going to really lose it for about the 10th TIME when the last guy I spoke to tonight told me that I needed to speak with an IAPP advisor as he could not help me only being a senior advisor. My questions is WHY THE HECK HAVE I NOT BEEN transferred to an IAPP advisor all week when I have been calling them repeatedly trying to get issue resolved. This was the only person who said I should speak to someone in IAPP. I now have only FRIDAY to get this resolved as the party is at my house on SATURDAY!!!!
I know other people have had some similiar problems (glitches) from searching the internet and yet the people I have been speaking with say they have never had someone call up with this problem.....????
Anyone else out there have this problem and find a way to fix it?
(BTW--they already had me go the route of trashing the psist file and some cache file among other things......)

Terence
Thank you for replying. My ranting was just out of utter fustration of literally sitting at a computer since Sunday redoing and redoing everything in order to have try and have a nice slideshow for my parents rather than just dumping a bunch of photos & music into a slideshow. It loses its punch when things don't fall into the proper place or transition right.....
2 things Apple had me do initially:
move a cache file and psist file out of library to desktop and then into my trash (I then did a secure empty trash)
senior advisor tried to have me duplicate the problem while he was accessing my computer---COULD NOT. He said unless I can duplicate for him he can't help me. He also said that he has never heard of anyone else complain of this & has never heard of anyone making a slideshow so big??? Really? It is 45 minutes with 375 pictures. While a little lengthy I find it hard to believe they are not used to anyone makng a slideshow this long.
Anyways later I called back when I felt I could duplicate issue. I spoke with another rep. He had me change ALL SLIDES from 5 seconds to 1 second and unclick default transition thinking that this could be causing the system to keep wanting to ovverride my manual individual settings if I had any slide less than 5 seconds or another transition. However he also was miffed by the "size" of my slideshow and said that Iphoto slideshow really wasn't meant for something of this size and suggested I use IMovie. While I had never used it I tried it. After spending all day getting the photos in IMovie and in same order I started editing the transitions and slide times....well this was no good because if I changed one thing it caused a ripple effect and changed stuff. Sooooooo I called Apple back and spoke with Senior advisor that told me that this is what Imovie does and I really should not use it for what I was trying to do ....he still felt iphoto slideshow was the way to go. So we went back to iphoto slideshow hoping that the couple of small changes the other advisor had me do had worked....no luck. I then decided to try and start fresh with NEW slideshow, new settings and break up my one big slideshow into smaller slideshows & then eventually dumpt into Imovie......No luck. With about 30 photos I noticed it wasn't saving my slide times again or now the speed of transitions. So the bottom line is that there is a GLITCH with iphoto and I have seem similiar complaints on these forums.
I greatly appreciate your suggestion of trying other apps and would definately do that if I had the time but alas the party is tomorrow and I have only today to get it resolved and redone.
Thank You for Your Time
Heidi

Saving slideshow

I am saving my slideshow with music on a CD. I will be giving it as a gift to someone that does not have Photoshop Elements. Will they be able to open and view it? If not, what is the best way to save it on a CD so they can easily view it? (they are not very computer literate)
Thanks!

If you are creating a slide show using PSE and burning it to a disc, then it can be played to any normal player or computer. You need not to install PSE at all to play the slide show.
Thanks.

Iphoto issues in Yosemite: saving slideshow as a quicktime movie?

I have searched online for help in exporting an iPhoto slideshow, and any results I have gotten, say to click "export" and I should get a menu that gives a choice of file formats to save as, including quicktime. When I do this, the only choice I get is what resolution do I want : 480p to 1180p. OS X 10.10.2 and iPhoto v. 9.6 .
Any ideas?

You're not having problems with iPhoto. Those are the only options that iPhoto 9.6 gives us and, obviously, are supported buy Quicktime. What is the intended use of your exported slideshow file?

Saving Slideshow to DVD

Have created an iPhoto Slideshow with iTunes music. I have tried Export to Quicktime and Share to iDVD, but the timing of the music doesn't fit the transitions either way I do it. What am I missing?

Welcome to the Apple Discussions. That's been a problem with iPhoto and audio tracks for a while. There are a couple of possible workaround you can do.
1 - export as a QT movie file without the audio. Use the full DV format option.
2 - create a slideshow in your iDVD project using the "+" button at the bottom.
3 - drag the movie into the slideshow area in iDVD.
Click to view full size
4 - add your playlist.
5 - preview the project to see if the timing will be as you want.
Next save the iDVD project as a disk image via the File ➙ Save as Disk Image menu option. This separates the encoding process from the burn process. Mount the disk image and play it with DVD Player. If it plays OK the encoding process was good. Now burn to disc with Disk Utility at the slowest speed available to assure the best burn quality. Always use top quality media: Verbatium, Maxell or Taiyo Yuden DVD-R are the most recommended in these forums.
OT
TIP: For insurance against the iPhoto database corruption that many users have experienced I recommend making a backup copy of the Library6.iPhoto (iPhoto.Library for iPhoto 5 and earlier versions) 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 created an Automator workflow application (requires Tiger or later), 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. There are versions that are compatible with iPhoto 5, 6, 7 and 8 libraries and Tiger and Leopard. Just put the application in the Dock and click on it whenever you want to backup the dB file. iPhoto does not have to be closed to run the application, just idle. You can download it at Toad's Cellar. Be sure to read the Read Me pdf file.
NOTE: The new rebuild option in iPhoto 09 (v. 8.0.2), Rebuild the iPhoto Library Database from automatic backup" makes this tip obsolete.

Creating & saving slideshows

how do you create and save slideshows

Welcome to the Apple Discussions.
Make an Album or choose an Event that you want to make a slideshow from.
Click on the ‘+’ lower left of the iPhoto Window and select Slideshow
Have you read the Help at all?
Regards
TD

Saving slideshow onto SD or USB

Hi there,
How would I save an iPhoto slideshow onto USB or SD card and make it loop. I have a slideshow to show at a party but don't want to take my laptop, just use a plasma.
Thanks

If you can't get your TV to loop the movie your other option is to create a video DVD of the slideshow with iDVD where you can set that movie to loop when played on the TV set via a DVD Player. It that's what you want to do post back and I'll post the workflow to follow.
OT

Photos not rotated (when saving slideshow as PDF)

I occasionaly have a slideshow of photos which I want to make available as a PDF file. Unfortunately many of the images come out cropped (photos with bits cut off) and not rotated (even though they're rotated in the slideshow.
What is the cause of this, and how do I resolve the problem?
(my solution up to now has been to import the PDF file into Adobe Acrobat Pro, then rotated the pages that needed to be, and finally resaved.
That solved the orientation problem, but not the cropping). There's got to be a better way!

Hadn't thought of that. I'll give printing albums a go.
Actually the slideshows aren't on my own computer (I'm just helping someone else), but I think it's iPhoto '08 (I only have iPhoto 5 myself). I believe I just clicked on a "print" icon to the lower right on my friend's Mac, and of course chose to "Save as PDF" in the print menu.
I'll look into it closer, and try to see which images are cropped/OK, and also try your suggestion.
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Saving Slideshows for Future Edit

I have looked at the Slideshow Module and Searched this forum but not found a way to do what I would like: Save a slide show as if it were an editable Lightroom document that I could come back to later and tweak with new images or settings.
In fact I would like to be able to save several different slideshows as works in progress.

Work from a Collection. When you get the slideshow the way you like it, save it as a new Slideshow Preset in the left hand panel. Whenever you come back to Slideshow with that Collection LR will remember which preset. You can thn also reorder the slides easily in the filmstrip in Slideshow or in Grid in Llibrary when in that Collection.
Don
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