Slideshows with Lightroom 4

Can I create slideshows on my Mac computer using Lightroom 4?

trshaner wrote:
Unfortunately Photodex ProShow is Windows only compatible, but Adobe Premiere Elements 11 does support full slideshow capability on Mac platforms:
http://forums.adobe.com/message/4869292
Here's my LR4 slideshow procedure, which will produce quality PDF and MP4 video output:
Lightroom 4.3 1080p Slideshow Procedure (for DSLR 2x3 aspect ratio images)
Make all tonal adjustments, etc. in the Develop module.
Add ‘Captions’ to be used on the slides in the Library module.
Export the images to ‘Specific folder’ and ‘Rename to’ ‘Custom Name – Sequence’ to retain sort order.
Use Export settings sRGB, 91 Quality, Width & Height 1539x1026, Sharpen for Screen Low. (NOTE: Images sharpen more during PDF creation and the ‘Reduced Size PDF’ processing.
Open in the Library module and select Sort: ‘File Name’ to set correct sort order.
In the Slideshow module select the ‘Widescreen’ template.
Make any required adjustments and set Layout Guides (L, R, T, B) = 10, 10, 10, 44.
For PDFs:From Slideshow module choose 'Export PDF Slideshow' with Quality 91 and Width & Height 1559x1080.
For MP4 Videos: From Slideshow module choose 'Export Video Slideshow' with 'Video Preset' 1080p.
The purpose of all this is to prevent LR from resizing the images in the Slideshow module, which causes softening and/or artifacts to appear in the slideshow output. Both the image files and template must be setup so that 1) the placed files fit the exact pixel dimensions inside the template, and 2) the template exactly fits the output resolution selected.
To add audio you will have to create a single (1) audio file to match the length of the slideshow, which means editing of the audio files outside LR. You can also choose 'Fit To Music,' but that won't work for PDF files since they use the slideshow timing set by the Adobe Reader. The end results looks good, but very simplistic compared to Photodex' ProShow slideshow transitions and effects options.
Thank you trshaner... I will be using your Lightroom Slideshow Procedure. I have no problem with taking extra steps in order to develop something nice to share with friends and family. Although in another year or so I will go shopping again for something better and hopefully by then Adobe will have created something that works well with Mac.

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I would like to use slideshow in lightroom to export my video as a full screen 1920x1080 video with text overlays. I am using text overlay in lightroom as it reads from the metadata that is easy for me to input in the library screen. When i export from

I would like to use slideshow in lightroom to export my video as a full screen 1920x1080 video with text overlays. I am using text overlay in lightroom as it reads from the metadata that is easy for me to input in the library screen. When i export from lightroom slideshow and choose the 1920x1080 resolution the end product is a very small video in the middle of a black background. i have double checked and do not have any borders turned on. Another option would be to export from the library but lr mogrify does not seem to put text overlays on video either. Any input would be welcome.

I dont understand anything you said in your post.
Do you have a specific question about video production?
The forums are for individual technical or creative issues that users have with video production. I am sur someone will be able to help you, but and to get a response it is best to ask a specific question.
Is this about a technical problem you have or something about setting up a web site? If its the latter this is the wrong forum.

I am using Windows 8.1. Lightroom 5.6 keeps crashing whenever I preview or play slideshow with music. Crash error " Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 64-bit has stopped working. A problem caused the program to stop working correctly."

Please help:
I am using Windows 8.1 with Lightroom 5.6 64-bit.
Lightroom crashes whenever I preview or play slideshow with music.
There is no issue if I preview or play without music.
The length of the slideshow is 1 hour and 35 minutes.
Thank you for your help
C K See

I have the same problem
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I am using Lightroom on my MAC where I import the finalized JPEG-pictures into iPhoto to create a slideshow (for instance in combination with films). When exporting the slideshow with a 1080p resolution to iTunes I experience difficulties (missing slides

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In iPhoto 11 the Originals folder is renamed Masters.
IPhoto menu -> Provide iPhoto Feedback and report the bug.
Regards
TD

Anybody using Apple TV with Lightroom?

Looking for help setting up new Apple TV with Lightroom 5.2. Can see "all" of my many LR photos on my TV but only want to see my Lightroom created slideshows. Possible??

but only want to see my Lightroom created slideshows. Possible??
I don't think so. ATV's photo sharing only pulls from iPhoto or Photostream as far as I know.

Slideshow in Lightroom 5.5 Mac Yields Black Screen

I just discovered that the slideshow functionality in Lightroom 5.5 on my Mac yields only a black screen.
This is the case for both impromptu slideshows (CMD-Return) and the Slideshow module.
From a Google search and looking over topics in this forum, I've found other posts describing this identical problem for both Mac and Windows versions of Lightroom going back to the original introduction of Lightroom 5 over a year ago.
I've been using Lightroom on various Mac computers since the first Lightroom beta release over 10 years ago. I generally don't use the slideshow functionality of the program, so I was quite surprised to discover yesterday that it's not working in Lightroom 5.5. I originally tried to preview/play a slideshow with 100 photos--some Olympus Raw files and some Canon JPEG files. I have since replicated this problem with a test collection of 5 JPEG images.
I know that the slideshow functionality used to work back in Lightroom 3 and 4. I hadn't tried to use it in Lightroom 5.x until now, so I don't know when it became broken, but it's definitely broken now...and from reading various posts here on Adobe forums and in related non-Adobe forums, it appears that Adobe has yet to acknowledge that this problem exists...which I find surprising and disappointing.
The only work around seems to be to export a PDF slideshow from the Lightroom 5.5 Slideshow module, which does produce a full-screen slideshow PDF. But, the slideshow functionality should work directly in Lightroom, as well.
DETAILS:
Hardware: Mac Book Pro Retina -- fully loaded (2.6 GHz Intel Core I7, 16 GB RAM, Nvidia GeForce GT 750M 2048 MB graphics card, External Apple 27" Cinema Monitor connected via Thunderbolt)
OS: Mac OS X 10.9.4 Mavericks
LR Version: Lightroom Mac 5.5
Problem 1: Impromptu Slideshow (pressing CMD-Enter/Return keys from Library/Develop modules) causes:
1. spinning beachball for seconds to minutes depending on how many images are in current folder/collection
2. followed by "Preparing Preview progress bar
3. followed by entirely black screen. Pressing forwards/backwards arrows do nothing; pressing ESC or mouse click returns to Lightroom module
Problem 2: Slideshow Module - Clicking Preview button (or Preview triangle under slideshow window) causes:
1. Preparing Preview progress bar
2. followed by slideshow window turning completely black.
Pressing forwards/backwards arrows does nothing; pressing ESC or clicking mouse returns slideshow window to display of slideshow layout
Clicking the Play Slideshow button exhibits exactly the same behavior as above, except that my entire screen blacks out instead of just Lightroom's slideshow window.

I’m disappointed
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Robert Kahn less than a minute ago
Update:
Just upgraded from Lightroom Mac 5.5 to 5.6.
Per my post above, creating an impromptu slideshow (CMD-Return) or using the Slideshow module produces either a completely black preview or a completely black full-screen slideshow.
While Adobe addressed other issues and bugs in Lightroom 5.x, they apparently did not address the slideshow functionality in this release, alas....

World of trouble with Lightroom

From what I've been reading, a lot of people seem happy with lightroom 1.0
It's giving me a world of trouble.
1. Sometimes it just crashes while importing a big folder of raw images. And when it doesn't crash, it takes forever.
2. I get outofmemory errors all the time
3. It seems unworkably slow...maybe I'm just not used to it.
4. When I'm importing from a memory card, there is no way to convert to .dng and have a full-sized image preview made at that time?
5. If I set a label in lightroom, using a .dng file, then later open the file with bridge, the label won't show up.
6. There are tons of interface glitches/annoyances. Like the annoying flaps on the side pop open when you don't want them to, then you have to wait for them to go away. When you use the key command to reject an image (X key), you can't just press (x) again to unreject it. You can't even do control-x or alt-x you have to get the mouse and click the stupid reject flag. And the flags don't show up in the loupe view...in fact there is very little info in the loupe view. So when you are looking at an image, you have to take your eyes away from it to see what the label is, what the flag is, etc.
I'm using XP x64...I don't know if this is a factor with the memory leaks and performance, but this really feels like beta software still. It doesn't feel like lightroom is ready for primetime yet!

It is quite obvious by now that the Lightroom modules when run on the PC platform, with the exception of the 'Develop' module, are pretty much broken and should be used minimally.
The 'Develop' module is great, I have NOTHING bad to say about it, but the modules around it pretty much stink. And virtually nothing about it has to do with the PC platform itself.
As I keep saying, I love the 'Develop' module, but the 'Library' module is so full of bugs and shortcomings that it is best avoided. Specially from a professional perspective... it may be adequate for amateurs and their needs, but the glitches and workarounds make it pretty much unusable as a professional tool.
I guess I should justify my statements:
a) File Ingestion - Downloading files is slow since it does a simultaneous import, which builds up the database and therefore is slow. When you have to download several cards with several hundred photos and do picks on deadline, you don't have time to be waiting around for Lightroom to build previews. Solution: Download using the OS drag and drop or a dedicated tool like "Downloader Pro", and do your initial selection and sorting with a separate sorting package of your choice. Only after you have whittled down the photos using a different tool should you consider importing into the Lightroom database.
b) File renaming. Again, amateur at best when compared to even a cheap tool like BreezeBrowser.
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Once you get the actual photos that you want to adjust into the Library, and no more, then the program starts to really shine.
The stability is somewhat better on the Mac platform (I use both platforms), but the same issues of ingestion time, renaming, 100% preview building exist. They are part of the program core design.
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System keeps freezing with lightroom...

i have a new macbookpro - 17" (293 process)(4gb) and i just began using Lightroom this w/e.. my system has already frozen 4 times.. i couldn't even force quit.. i had to actually shut off the computer each time to get it to close. The last time it froze i was viewing a slideshow with about 500 pictures ( which are kept on a separate hard drive), the other times it froze i wasn't really doing anything intensive. this isn't normal correct??? i bought this computer because i thought it could handle something like this easily. any insight? i did call applecare yesterday and they had me run some disk check repair thing.. and they were hoping that fixed whatever could be wrong.. but then later after i did that it froze again with the slide show.
thanks

I've done that and it did not change anything. Came up saying the disk was ok, I even hit the repair a few times even though it said that just to play safe.

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There are dozens of threads in this forum that describe the fix

Can you show slideshow within Lightroom 4.4 in Adobe RGB color space?

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Thanks so much for working on this.
I fear the behavior you noticed was just due to the fact I cheanged the
file from 16 bit to 8 bit so the size was smaller and I could easily email
it. When I open any of my regular 16 bit files, whether I send them to PS
as "edit original" or "edit copy with lightroom adjustments", they both end
up as 16 bit and as far as I can see, seem the same, though obviously they
are not.
I don't really have a preset, but I'll walk you through the process.
1. Choose Channel Mixer from the Adjustment Pannel
2. Make sure the output channel is red, change the red channel slider from
100% to 0% and increase the blue channel slider from 0% to 100%. You can
type in the values.
3. Change the output channel to blue. Increase the red channel from 0% to
100% and the blue channel from 100% to 0%.
This is supposed to change the sky from brown to blue and the foliage from
blue to yellow and is what happens when you use the "edit original"
option. When you use the "edit copy with lightroom adjustments", the sky
turns green and the foliage pink. So you get 2 different behaviors,
depending on which option you use to bring the image from LR to PS.
That's my question, why do you get 2 different behaviors?
Thanks,
Matthew Kraus

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