Slide duration and transition

Sorry for such a basic question, but I need to get a movie (which I took over for someone else) ready for a funeral and I don't have a lot of time. I am using Imovie 5.0.2. I can upgrade if it will make either of my needs below any easier.
I need to remove all the transitions between over 100 slides. Is there anyway to do it all at once?
Also I need to make all the slides have the same duration of 10 seconds. Is there anyway to do this all at once?
Your help is greatly appreciated.

We make a product called Photo to Movie which can do this. I think newer versions of iPhoto can do it too. My experience (which is why I wrote Photo to Movie) is that iMovie's slide shows are cumbersome to edit.

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Slide Duration and Build Duration

I have created a slideshow in keynote with individual settings for each slide. When I go to export, it only allows me to set a standard slide and build duration. Is there not a way to keep the individual settings on export? I tried setting to 0 so that it would default to the presentatio but that did not work. The setting options are the same for Quicktime and iDVD. Has anyone conquered?

Solved it!
Try ScreenFlow from www.telestream.net/screen-flow/. Costs $99. Works a treat. Download a watermarked demo and see if it works for your programme. It did for my most troublesome one which has a whole show music track plus timed sound on each slide.
Very easy to use: get your Keynote ready to run, open ScreenFlow, press record, when show finished press shift/command/2 to stop recording. Save the Screenflow version. Edit it to precise length in Screenflow then export it in whatever formats and whatever of its features added you want. Good Mac interface too.
Screenium was erratic. Camtasia: far too expensive and feature filled for the job.
No, it doesn't help recording the show, as you've probably found out by now.
Having said all that it hurts having to pay the same as for the whole iWorks suite for something Keynote should do properly. Ranting, sorry. I think what Keynote does at export is to add the delay time entered in the build after the slide sound has played. Result slide up twice as long as it should be. Mr Apple should get it right.
Also you may have noticed that when making a programme and playing it from a position farther in than the actual start the programme soundtrack starts from the beginning and not from where it would be at that place. No fix for that and hours wasted having to sit through the whole thing from the beginning to see if certain pictures sync to the soundtrack where you wanted them to.

I am having issues with adjusting the duration of time for each still frame and transition in imovie 11. Each time that I adjust these times, the app does not accept the change, and automatically enters its own time. Am I doing something wrong?

I am having issues with adjusting the duration of time for each still frame and transition in imovie 11. Each time that I adjust these times, the application does not accept the change, and instead automatically enters its own time. Is there a work around this? Or am I doing something wrong? Please Help!
Thank you,
lagrl

Have you tried turning off automatic transitions ? Choose file - project properties and follow the dialogue box to change duration with a slider. iMovie also doesn't allow a transition to be more than 50% duration of the clip its attached to. In other words if the clip is 4 seconds the transition cannot be more than 2 seconds and remember that relates to the first clip as the following clip (right side) is pulled back to overlay it.
Does this help. Perhaps you already know this ?

Problems setting duration for still photos and transitions in iMovie '11

I downloaded iMovie 11 from the Apps Store last night and am trying to make my first movie with it today. I use still photos exclusively.
For most - but not all - I like 5 seconds for photos and for transitions 2 seconds. I do vary this on occasion and so do not check "for all photos' or "for all transitions".
I can't get these settings to work with this version of iMovie. For example, I added a photo (5 sec) then a transition (2 sec) which changed the duration time of the photo - as it should. But when I double clicked the photo, to bring up the inspector window to change the duration of the photo, nothing happened. Then I added another photo. The duration of the first photo increased to 7 seconds and nothing I do seemed to change that.
The time increases seem random: for example, sometimes the time on the still photo increases to 6:29 sec, sometimes to 7 sec.
The duration for the transitions always remains the same - 2 sec; it's the time for the photos that jumps around. And I haven't been able to find a way to get back to 5 sec.
Before posting this, I researched and found an number of earlier posts detailing the same issues.
However, none of these posts had stars to indicate the problem was solved.
Has anyone found a solution or is this a bug that should be reported to Apple?

Interesting!!
I've spent a lot of hours on this too, but I have come up with a different solution perhaps because I like to vary both the image duration and the transition duration in my movies.
Here's my process:
-> Knowing that (a) I want most of the photos to be visible for 5 seconds and most transitions for 2 seconds and (b) that a transition takes half from the photo before and half from the photo after, under File>Project Properties>Photo Duration I chose 7 seconds - each photo will 'lose' a total of 2 seconds from the transitions in front and behind. I did not check either "Applies to all transitions." or "Applies to all photos." - See below for why.
-> I discovered, as you have, that all the photos have to go in before I add any transitions. This was new to me. With all previous versions of iMovie I simply added a photo then a transition then another photo one at a time. I had to fiddle with the timing adjustments, but at least I could fiddle. With this new version of iMovie I can't. Once the transition is in place, I cannot change the duration of the photo.
-> Sometimes, I want a longer or shorter duration for a photo. For example, on photos to which I apply the Ken Burns effect, I often want the image on the screen for a slightly longer time. In this case, I have to use the inspector to change the duration before I add the transitions. So I might set the time for 8 seconds; when both transitions are added, the time for this photo becomes 6 seconds, which is what I want.
-> The same applies if I want a transition to be shorter or longer than 2 seconds. If, for example, I want the duration for a transition to be 1 second, then I have to change the duration on the two linked photos to 5 1/2 seconds.
All of this requires much more prior planning than I am used to with iMovie. Right now, I working with batches of 5 or 6 photos at a time. I don't put a transition on the last photo in the batch until I have added the next group of photos. And things get really tricky if I don't like my original design. If I want to change anything, I have to take out all of the transitions linking the photos I want to work on, do the math, make the changes in the photo durations, then put the transitions back.
Perhaps I am trying to make iMovie do more than it was intended to do, I don't know. Perhaps this problem stems from the fact that I bought just iMovie 11 from the Mac Apps Store and not the entire iLife 11. Don't know that either. But at least I have found a way to make the movie look the way I want it to look.
Thanks for sharing your process. I will use it when the circumstances are right.

Not able to change slide duration. It's set to 4.0; I change it to 3.0 and it changes to 6.5 or something. What am I doing wrong?

I can't seem to change the slide duration in iMovie. It's set to 4.0 automatically. I change it to 3.0. The program resets it to 6.5 or something I never intended. What am I doing wrong?

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When I did the update several of the title slides and transition slides disappeared. Is there any way to get them back? Where do I find them?

Hi
Really no real vision memory of this - but You may be right and then
• Turn on Advance tools
• Trashing the iMovie pref file
• Repair permissions
use to help when things don't work OK
Yours Bengt W

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I have imported a sound track to my slideshow in Aperture 3 and everything seems fine except that the slide duration button is greyed out and therefore not allowing me to set slide durations 'on the fly'. Any suggestions on how to make the slide duration button active?

What theme are you using? Some themes require a minimum slide duration to allow for smooth transitions. The "Classic" theme is the most flexible.
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I downloaded and installed Flex Builder 3, and I think I have
my slideshow project about 75% finished. It's the last 25% that I
can't figure out, regarding preloading and transitions. Can someone
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to write the code in such a way that you can debug it from any
computer as it's calling an PHP/XML file and images that are on a
server.
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1. PHP file looks at image files on server and builds XML
file.
2. Flex app calls PHP file and traverses the XML in the
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displayed, the next 3 images need to be preloaded, and then the
slide should not progress to the next until slide is completely
loaded.
3. The very first slide should not appear until it is
completely loaded, and when it does appear, it should fade in from
white.
How do I do this?!? Please help! Here's the code...
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layout="absolute" width="472" height="195"
backgroundGradientAlphas="[1.0, 1.0]"
backgroundGradientColors="[#FFFFFF, #FFFFFF]"
creationComplete="StartFunction();" >
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alphaTo="0.0"/>
<mx:Fade id="fadeIn" duration="2000" alphaFrom="0.0"
alphaTo="1.0"/>
<mx:Image id="PhotoA" x="0" y="0" width="154"
height="195" />
<mx:Image id="PhotoC" x="318" y="0" width="154"
height="195" />
<mx:Image id="PhotoB" x="159" y="0" width="154"
height="195" />
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<![CDATA[
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var sXmlUrl:String = "
http://www.smis.org/templates/smis/slideshowxml.php";
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var oUrlLoader:URLLoader = new URLLoader(oUrlReq);
oUrlLoader.addEventListener("complete", xmlLoaded);
function xmlLoaded(event:Event):void {
oXML = XML(oUrlLoader.data);
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http://www.smis.org/" +
oXML.slide[iSlide].photo[0]["@filepath"]);
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http://www.smis.org/" +
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oXML.slide[iSlide].photo[0]["@filepath"]);
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oXML.slide[iSlide].photo[1]["@filepath"]);
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http://www.smis.org/" +
oXML.slide[iSlide].photo[2]["@filepath"]);
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setInterval(ChangeImages,5000);
]]>
</mx:Script>
</mx:Application>

What you've done is beyond my capabilities, as of now. But, I
ran into the same problem with the fading in and out of the photos.
Here's my solution.
I defined my fade with only the id and the duration
parameters. No 'from' and 'to'.
Then I used the 'showEffect' and 'hideEffect' parameters.
showEffect="{bannerFade}" hideEffect="{bannerFade}"
Works like a charm for my project.
I hope this helps.
Randy

Exporting presentation to movie file: build/slide duration

I have been unable to find this in Keynote's help file.
When exporting a Keynote presentation to a self-playing movie file, you are asked to specify:
[1] Build duration
[2] Slide duration
I suppose this should be obvious, but I can't quite figure out what they mean with respect to a .mov file.

In case Brian's answer wasn't what you were looking for, in the self-playing mode, build duration refers to how long each animation build/slide transition should take, and slide duration determines how long a slide should stay on-screen once all transitions are completed on it.
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I made a iDVD from pictures only, no movies or music. I set the time for 5 seconds between pics and chose "dissolve" for the transition. I burned it on a DVD-R. It's only about 3 seconds between pics and no transition. Any suggestions?

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Check all the objects on your slide that go right to the end of the slide. One or more of them are probably Timed for a specific number of seconds which will turn out to be the same as the current duration of the slide. Until you change their duration, you won't be able to get your slide duration less than what they currently are.
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I'm using Captivate 4 and I've set the global slide duration to 1.5 seconds.
I've recorded an Automatic Recording using the Custom Mode.
When I preview my recordings I discover that all the slide durrations are 4+ seconds.
I've been manually adjusting the slide durration for each recorded slide (very annoying.)
Is there any way to have the slide duration adhere to the global settings?

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So this is a simulation and not a demo?
If so, you need to ensure the Click Boxes are all configured to Go to the next slide when clicked.
If it's just Demonstration, note that an option exists for recording in "real time". What this means is that during the recording process, if you click the Edit menu, wait 20 seconds, then move the mouse down to one of the menu options, Captivate will time the action identically. Perhaps that option is what you are looking for?
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Hello! I have created an xml slide show and currently when one presses the next or back btns then the next or previous image will come on screen. I am trying to make it where when one presses next the next image will slide on the screen from the right side and stop at the center while the previous image slides off to the left side. I am posting the code that I have currently but I am not sure where to take it from here.
I am fairly new to AS as a note.
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var rawH:String;
var rawW:String;
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function checkerF(event:TimerEvent):void {
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private var vx:Number = 0;
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Hey thanks! Tween was just the tool and works well now. The first eases on stage from the left and when I press the btnNext the image on stage eases out to the left and the next image eases on from the right.
This leads to my next question.... When I add the btnBack it goes all funky.. the image that went off stage to the left comes back on stage from the left but then the next image on the right comes on stage at the same time! I am trying to get the image that went off stage to the left when I pressed next to come back on stage and the current picture that is on screen to go back off the the right.
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import fl.transitions.Tween;
import fl.transitions.easing.*;
var xmlRequest:URLRequest = new URLRequest("imageData.xml");
var xmlLoader:URLLoader = new URLLoader(xmlRequest);
var imgData:XML;
var imageLoader:Loader;
var rawImage:String;
var rawH:String;
var rawW:String;
var inTween:Tween
var outTween:Tween
var imgNum:Number = 0;
var checkSec:Timer = new Timer(100);
var numberOfChildren:Number;
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btnNext.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, nextImgF);
btnBack.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, prevImgF);
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btnBack.buttonMode = true;
function xmlLoadedF (event:Event):void{
     checkSec.start();
     checkSec.addEventListener(TimerEvent.TIMER, checkerF);
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function checkerF(event:TimerEvent):void {
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function nextImgF(e:MouseEvent):void {
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So, whats the deal here? I must be missing something like a listener or something. Not sure what. Can you pls help?
Thanks!

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