What is stepbystep procedure to make finest quality slide show in iMovie?

After spending many hours of trial and error, like many others it sounds like, and after much time reading through this forum I have concluded that maybe one of the experts on iMovie, and this recurring question, could come up with a step-by-step guide on how to prepare photos for a high quality slide show in iMovie starting from downloading the digital image from the camera.
I find myself very confused as to how to prepare the photos in Photoshop (step by step here would be great also - how do you format the photo, size, pixal ratio, resolution, RGB or CMYK, ) and how to import them into iMovie while maintaining the highest quality possible. Then how to export to or import into iDVD. I think anyone who is attemping to produce a slide show wants to end up with a visually pleasing final product. No jaggies or blurriness. It seems to me that there should be, from start to finish, a fairly simple guide that would make it easier for all of us.

Maybe it's me, but... scoobie... i don't think your reply has anything to do with her question lol. I believe she's saying she is having trouble figuring out how to do something, not that the program is crashing.
Anyway, I'm starting a similar slideshow project. I think it's easiest to simply edit the photos in iPhoto. Photoshop is on a different level from iPhoto and obviously has capabilities iPhoto lacks, but I think it should be fine for just editing digital photos.
One of the things you said was "how do you format... resolution"
I don't think iPhoto can change the resolution of a photo like photoshop can, but since you want to make the FINEST quality slide show I assume you'd want to scale the resolution up... and although photoshop can do that, I don't think you'll see a significant increase in quality. It won't look anything like if you had actually taken the photo at a higher resolution.
As far as importing pictures into iMovie goes, that should be pretty easy. If you click on the "media" button in iMovie, and then click on the "Photos" tab on the upper right of the window, it will display your iPhoto library the same way it would display it in iPhoto (organized by albums). You can then drag whatever photos you want to include to the "timeline" at the bottom of the screen.
I'm not sure what to tell you about pixel ratio and RGB vs. CMYK....
The last step, exporting to iDVD is just as simple as adding pictures... just click on the "Share" menu at the top of the screen and select "iDVD". What you do from there depends on what kind of final product you want... and I haven't actually used iDVD so I would just be guessing on that part lol.
Also, I suggest going here: http://www.apple.com/ilife/tutorials/imovie/index.html and looking at the tutorial. I viewed most of the movies there and they were helpful.

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I know that this may have been asked before but i am trying to create a high quality slide show of my still images that will look great on a TV. I have tried imovie, idvd, and iphoto and i am not happy with the quality. i do own FCP. can anyone walk me through a way to create a high quality slide show and then burn it on IDVD.
any info would be appreciated
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i usually lay everything out in FCP. if you're going to use music or voice overs, lay down your audio tracks as appropriate. then cut all of the stills to you audio to get the timing just right. don't do any motion graphics in FCP. then, when you're satisfied with the cuts, send the entire sequence to Motion and do all of your motion graphics (grow/shrink, spins, throws, fades).
i find that all of the motion effects can be done more easily in the Motion application. this has been my preferred workflow for over a half-dozen slideshows now.
scott
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Im making a photo slide show using imovie. how will i make a dvd copy that can play in both pc and dvd player. i dont have an idvd anymore. m using a mbp early 2011 osx 10.8.5

im making a photo slide show using imovie. how will i make a dvd copy that can play in both pc and dvd player. i dont have an idvd anymore. m using a mbp early 2011 osx 10.8.5.
after making the photo slide show, i clicked share>export movie. after which i burned using toast. the file became a .mov. i tried playing it in my mac and it worked. my fear now is will it also play in a regular dvd?... i read from google that mov files won't run in dvd players. what format should i convert it to so it'll play in a dvd player. can you suggest a faster way i can burn my projects for it takes me almost an hour to export. im going to make 28 slideshows for my kids in school. *=( if i need to do this process 28 times, i may not be able to finish it on time. please suggest a software or an alternative as to how i should do this... m more comfortable using imovie than iphoto. thanks and i hope to hear from someone soon *=j

Thank you QuickTimeKirk...used toast to burn project... my project was in .mov, i tried to play it a dvd player, it did play... will try again tomorrow using another dvd player just to be sure it'll will really work with dvd players. thank you again for your reply *=)

Why poor quality slide show?

I own a 20" iMac purchased last January. I just produced my first slide show by sending some travel photos from iPhoto to iDVD and then burning them to a DVD. The results were very disappointing. The photos looked poor, either when viewing them on my TV set or on my computer. The original photos were high quality JPEGs taken with a Nikon D200 and looked great, but the same photos in the slide show were not nearly as sharp and looked like they were out of focus. I am wondering why the quality of the photos was degraded in the process. I will appreciate any insights on what might have gone wrong and suggestions on what I can do to produce an acceptable slide show.
Also, I did not program any music to be played along with the slide show, but when I played it, lo and behold, there was a musical accompaniment throughout the entire show. The music piece was nice, but it was a short composition that repeated itself innumerable times during the show to the point where I muted it. I would also like to know why I got music that I didn't program into the slide show.
Bob

Read what F Shippey and Old Toad say iin these 2 threads:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=5513037&#5513037
and
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=4988057&#4988057
Sue

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Can I make a slides show with imovie (8,0,6). If so, how?

Hi
Yes and No
No - if Quality is important AND You want a DVD as result - no iMovie'08 to 11 can handle or export - Interlaced SD-Video to any DVD authoring program - When going from Event's to Project every second line in the Picture is lost and this will be a noticeable quality loss in the final DVD
YES - If You don't want a DVD -
• Just start a new Project
• Import Photos from Media button / Photos
• Insert transition of choice
• Insert Audio at Your liking - I convert all to .aiff and not use any .mp3 or from iTunes directly (converted they work OK)
If DVD - Then use
• iMovie HD6 - or -
• FinalCut any version
• FotoMagico™
• iDVD - BUT this is limited in several ways
- max 99 photos per show
- one transition possibly
- audio - one audio tract (but this can be created outside iDVD to contain more than one tune
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Yours Bengt W

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My Photos app works the same on iOS 5 as it did on iOS 4 i.e. I can have a different track for each album. When I select a track for a photo album I then start the slideshow so that it shows the first couple of photos with the track playing - I'm not sure it's necessary to start the slideshow but I always do and it remembers that track for that album.

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Hi jackwyatt,
Thanks for visiting Apple Support Communities.
If you would like to connect your MacBook Pro to a projector to output the display and sound, the cables and adapters you need will vary depending on the specific model MacBook Pro that you have.
I recommend this page for getting a good idea of which adapters you might need:
About Apple video adapters and cables
Additionally, the tips in this article can also apply to using a projector as a display:
OS X Mavericks: Use a television as a display
All the best,
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Help! I thought I was pretty good setting up slide shows and adding music. I'm trying to make a new slide show from a great trip to New York. I can get theme music but no music at all from iTunes. Checking my older slide shows, which did play music!

Help! I thought I was pretty good setting up slide shows and adding music. I'm trying to make a new slide show from a great trip to New York. I can get theme music but no music at all from iTunes. Checking my older slide shows, which did play music, it's all gone!
Problem seems to have started after updating to Mavericks.
Is there a box I need to check/uncheck?
Any help very welcome!

Hopefully you've seen the post from Terence Devlin? I've pasted it below.
In iTunes go File -> Library -> Organise Library -> Reorganise Library.
Then quit and restart iPhoto.
Pity Apple didn't either warn us or set up a bug fix!

I'm trying to make a AUTO slide show. I can select all the other actions like mouse clicks etc. but

I'm trying to make a AUTO slide show. I can select all the other actions like mouse clicks etc. but ON load will not work.
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Is it a known issue???
Do I need something??
Am I missing something???
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In article <[email protected]>,
[email protected] wrote:
> I do not know how to insert the auto slideshowaction as a head action item.
> The steps.
> Can you explain how to do it?
I just remembered I have a couple of screen snaps online to explain how
it's done:
1. place your base image and name it in the inspector
2. from the smart objects palette grab the head action item, the one
with a question mark in its upper, green half - the 2nd one from the
left. Drop that into the pages head section.
3. in the inspector set the action to run OnLoad and select the base
image that you named in the first step and set the other parameters.
This was done in the days of GL6, but not much had changed in GL CS.
Anyway you might also refer to GL's online help. It describes how to set
up all the actions that ship with GL.
Cheers Martin

Wanting to make a high quality slide show

I have pse 5 and want to make slide shows. I know that I must save the show to .wmv.
Please give me some tips on making the best quality HD tv slide show using pse 5. I am primarily concerned with visual quality, not features such as a 1000 different transitions.
As far as VCD's go, are they capable of producing excellent quality, assuming a short slide show?
Or, will I have to get Premiere to get the best playback quality?
Lastly, do the stand alone slide show programs create better quality (not transitions, etc.) shows?
Thanks very much in advance.
Steve.

>As far as VCD's go, are they capable of producing excellent quality, assuming a short slide show?
simple and direct answer - NO
>best quality HD tv slide show using pse 5
How will you play back this slide show on your HD TV?
Do you have a Media Center configuration where you can play from your PC to your TV?
Do you have a DVD burner that can burn Blue Ray DVDs and a TV DVD player that can play the Blue Ray DVDs?
Premiere Elements does have the potential to give you better quality for TV playback from a DVD. More info and suggestions sort of depend on responses to those questions above as well as the specifications of your PC and therefore its capability to handle HD video.
EDIT - adding comment
If you want to pursue the Premiere Elements discussion, there is a forum at muvipix.com (a site started by some regulars at the Adobe Premiere Elements forum) that may be a better forum for this discussion.
>Lastly, do the stand alone slide show programs create better quality (not transitions, etc.) shows?
Potentially yes. ProShow Gold is a program that some Photoshop Elements users like for their slide shows. Hopefully someone who is using that software will post to this thread.

I want excellent quality slide shows to dvd

I have been using iPhoto 6 to make slide shows set to music and then send them to IDvd to burn. After this process is complete, I am disappointed with the quality of the finished product.
I am a pro photographer who shoots raw files with a Nikon D200. I edit in Lightroom (sorry, not Aperture) and convert to full size jpgs with Photoshop. These are very good files in terms of sharpness and color, etc. The jpgs range in size from 2.5MB to 5.8 MB. This is not garbage in, garbage out. I then import them into my iPhoto library and build a slide show. When finished with transitions, effects, whatever, I send my project to iDVD for the finishing touches. I have selected the best quality and fomat for 16x9 wide screen TV. The show comes out just as I designed it, music works without a hitch. To view the DVD on my cinema display or wide screen TV, etc. the sharpess and quality of the images in the show are disappointing. Looks OK (just OK) from afar, but it seems like the quality should be so much better. Granted, my standards are high and I want this to be a professional presentation. Are these the wrong products for the quality that I desire? Are My files too big? (I doubt it) How can my projects reflect the quality of the images that go into them? If these are not professional products, what products might do this better?

I've found that creating the slideshow directly in iDVD gives me the best quality image when played. However, if I play a 4:3 aspect DVD project on my widescreen it doesn't look as good. But when I create the project in the 16:9 widescreen mode, it displays quite well on the widescreen TV as it's masked properly. If I crop the photos to the 16:9 ration the widescreen display is very good. Since the standard DVD image is reduced to 640 x 480 at 72 dpi, there's not much you can do to get a lot better. If you use the Ken Burns effect in iPhoto then you do want to have the largest image size possible so the zoomed portion of the effect is not reduced. As I recall the widescreen image size is 855 480 or so.
The reason I like creating the slideshow in iDVD is that it really is a slideshow. You can move back and forth slide by slide with a click of the remote. With the movie type it's rewind or fast forward.

IMac won't let me make any more slide shows in iPhoto. I have 35. Is there a limit?

I have been making slide shows on my iMac for years and all of a sudden when I go through the procedure, the newly named show doesn't show up in the list of slide shows. I can still make albums, but not slide shows. What's the deal? I have made 35 slide shows. Is there a limit?

Did you resolve this? Would reinstalling iPhoto correct the problem? If I try to reinstall would I lose all my photos etc.

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