Sharing a slideshow experience

This is not a question. I learned something that I think might help others, while I was trying to make a slideshow playable on a DVD player connected to a television, with decent picture quality and features that I wanted.
I wanted to easily be able to have title screens and captions and full control of the music. The ProCare person gave me a good method that may not be obvious to other Mac iLife newbies like myself.
Use iPhoto to create the slideshow and do your Ken Burns settings, transitions, duration, etc. It is very important to go into the slideshow settings and set the display quality. Choose iDVD 4x3 or 16x9, as you wish, to have more pixels per picture than the “current display” setting. You need to set this for every slideshow that you create. Share the slideshow to iDVD to create a “.mov” file of the slideshow. Import the “.mov” file into iMovie. Once in iMovie, it is easy to add captions (as subtitles), title screens, and one or more pieces of music with volume control. You could even record a narrative track. With a large slideshow, it is easier to group the photos into several small slideshows. When finished editing in iMovie, share the movie into iDVD. From iDVD, then burn the DVD.
This works well for me, but be aware of a bug I discovered after first being shown this technique. When I returned home, I tried it myself and was shocked to see squished images in iMovie (bad aspect ratio). It took a lot of trial and error exporting and importing to discover, with help from the ProCare guys (it took several people), that when the iPhoto slideshow did not have the music option checked, the iMovie import would squish the images. Checking the music option in iPhoto is the only way to have iMovie import with the correct aspect ratio. Once in iMovie, you can remove the audio track on the slideshow video, and add the music you want on the other audio tracks.
MacBook Pro Mac OS X (10.4.4) 2MB memory, 15"
MacBook Pro Mac OS X (10.4.4) 2MB memory, 15"

Rohit,
Its a good idea to run some basic queries (v$datafile, v$lofile, v$tempfile) in database to confirm where are all datafiles on filesystem. Its very risk affair when you are relocating a file specially in unix. DOn't you have tape backups happening every other night? Its good idea to have tape back done every other night for this kind of issues.
Well thanks for sharing your experience and something to learn,
Regards

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I just got my new 5G 30GB iPod yesterday -- three or so days after ordering it on the Apple site with the free (which was supposed to take much longer) shipping option. I was shocked it arrived so quickly -- and even a day before FedEx originally estimated.
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My iPhone Experience :)

The Purchase
Tonight, i walked into the Glendale Galleria (in CA) and purchased an 8gig iPhone. I would have bet my first born that they would have been sold out by 8pm or 10pm.
So i gave them a call and the very nice gentlemen who answered told me they had the 8gigs in stock. He could no elaborate if they had plenty, but he told me to come on down. So i did.
Thankfully, there was no line. The store maybe had 20 people browsing and playing with the phone, etc. Maybe because the mall closes at 9 or 10pm, the people started leaving.
So i walked up to the cashier and requested the phone. We made small talk. I was interested in how many people perhaps had visited the store at 6pm. I was told they had a solid line for 4 hrs of people just buying and leaving.
wow.
I looked behind the register, they had stacks and stacks of the 4 and 8 gig phone just piled high. That amazed me!
So i paid the nice foxy lady and left the store. In and out in less than 7 minutes.
The packaging is quite impressive. It's a small black box in a black bag. It's high end electronic packaging and printing. VERY NICE.
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So i drove home and i started to unpack the iPhone. I wasn't expecting much at this point. I had been reading the east coasters-NYers nightmare stories of 6 hr activations and cancellations and hangups, etc.
So i plugged in the iPhone and launched iTunes. Prior to starting my day, i had upgraded my OS X and iTunes to the latest iPhone compatible versions. I also inserted a USB 2.0 5-port belkin card in my trusty G4 dual 1gig MDD tower.
Once the computer, itunes recognized the iPhone... i simply went step by step following the onscreen instructions. Mind you i'm ALREADY a AT&T (started with Cingular) subscriber.
So it detected my number, my account as a current subscriber and it gave me the option of packages to sign up for, along with the extra SMS text messaging packages.
I made the selections and soon enough the window told me that it may take up to 3 minutes.
I don't even think 1 minute went by when it told me that the iPhone activation was complete. My jaw dropped.
REALLY? Was that it? So the first thing i did was unplug the iPhone and make a call to make sure my number was carried over to the iPhone. Sure enough it was. I could make and receive calls with not problem. Impressive!
I was so eager to try my fast wi-fi connection at home, which worked like a charm!
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The webpages loaded just as if they were on a slow DSL connection. I wasn't disappointed. I expected it to be slower actually.
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My email synced up perfectly (although i had to set the AT&T outgoing mail server to make my POP3 email work correctly (outgoing mail).
I setup the visual voicemail which works like a charm.
The features of this phone are worth every penny. Sure it's pricey, but this phone is useful in many ways.
The design is gorgeous. The way it feels in your hand... you just want to keep holding it all day long.
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Most excellent!
Cheers for sharing a positive experience. I had a rather enjoyable one myself.
I live in Tucson, AZ. Got to a local AT&T store around 1:30, and waited for hours under an EZ-UP tent the first person in line brought (he was thanked repeatedly by the growing crowd as the day progressed).
The whole time we were there, there were 3 or 4 AT&T representatives that were extremely accommodating, offering coolers of ice cold water bottles, answering all our questions, and just hanging out and enjoying the experience.
Once the doors opened, my experience was nearly identical to yours in that I was in and out and the clerks were all very nice.
Got home, unpacked everything... once again, your first impressions are shared.
Activated nicely, syncs properly, etc. I've been absolutely satisfied with the whole experience so far.
I can make calls but can't receive them yet (my number was ported from Verizon), I'm anxious, though I have nothing but patience in this department. I completely understand that technology has limitations, and a communications device launch of this magnitude that requires hundreds of thousands of people to use the same network doing the exact same thing at the exact same time, is going to have a few glitches.
When I do receive my first call on the iPhone, I plan to pop a bottle of (juuuust acceptable enough) champagne and toast in the name of Apple, AT&T, and myself.

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I am from france , and on iphoto09, i think i have the same problem , as i want to export a slideshow of 350 pictures, i have the answer of "données de support présentes dans la séquence incorrectes"
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