Slideshow problems IPhoto 8

This is for the record...and if anyone has answers to my problems it will be appreciated. So here goes...
Created 1st slideshow with a playlist of 5 tracks customised to each event successfully and sent to iDVD to burn without any problems. It was 20mins duration with 350 photo's.
2nd slide show 500+ photo's & 45mins long with 15 tracks. Encountered problems when sent to iDVD one event coordinated with a 3min track went so fast that all the music went out of sync'. There were 66 photos in this section and had made the transitions very fast and each frame 1sec long to fit in with the bouncy music. Sent to IDVD as before but would not appear in this site but eventually found it in Movies in Applications. The IDVD went dead on me and had difficulty getting it back but did with the help of my very patient husband and lots of bad language!!
As there was just this one area holding things up I reduced the frames in this section and made the transition times longer and photo time mostly 3 secs. I then sent the slideshow to Quicktime Desktop where I checked the play back and everything was fine and in sync'. Opened IDVD and dropped the Desktop movie into the usual zones and successfully burned the slideshow.
There does seem to be a lot of probs with this slideshow lark that i am thinking of investing in a Fotomagico3 anyone got any info on this software?? Can't be any worse than Iphoto/IDVD!!!!
Thanks

The problem here is that iPhoto 08 has very limited export options. Later versions have better ones. However, I smiled when I read
Mac designs these beautiful computers...they look so good and then are so stingy with the software. Why is that???
Which is amusing given that you were contemplating spending more than the cost of the entire iLife suite to replace one facet of one of the apps.
The truth is that these apps, while very capable, are aimed at folks who want to do simple things. Divide the cost of the iLife suite by the number of apps, and you can see that iPhoto is a $16 application. For that you do get a lot but you don't get everything. And as your use grows and your demands get higher you can easily outgrow them.
Regards
TD

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