How can I save an iPhoto slideshow ?

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mac.morten Author

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How can I save an iPhoto slideshow ?

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Hey out there.

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Nov.14th I'm going to experience my 5th total solar eclipse - this one on Great Barrier Reef ! It will be

extreme because of expected intense solar activity and the fact that the Mayan Calendar ends ultimo

dec. plus the fact that it takes place just 1 hour after sunrise so the miracles will appear just 12ᴼ over

the horison so this eclipse will look very big.

. The 8 days in Sibiria for the eclipse in 2008 ended up with the most beatiful 8-days slideshow with

individual russian pop/rock-song - all my friends tell my I could do this for living.

. But then I updated to iLife'8 - and lost ALL of my laboriously executed transitions, fine tuned slide-

duratons (to make images syncronize perfectly with details in the music) etc. etc. etc..

. Does anybody know how I can save my slide shows OUTSIDE iPHOTO 1) : So I don't loose them

when I update to i'Life 12 AND 2) : So I can transfer the slide shows to CD/CD-rom/DVD with retention

of ALL my individual image settings : durations/transitions/Ken Burns-zoomings/etc. so the saved slide

shows runs EXACTELY as it does in iPhoto, where the duration of a particular day's slide show will fit

exactely with the duration of that days audio track ? ?

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SO :

I find it VERY disappointing that Apple has created these formidable slide-show-possibilities in iPhoto

BUT NO WAY TO SAVE the creation fully consistent with the original in iPhoto - I mailed to their head

quarters but of course got no response from them.

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. PLEASE - Help me - - - -

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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.4), Canon EOS 400D, using jpgs 28 MB

Posted on Aug 7, 2012 12:07 PM

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Answer 1

Yer_Man

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Aug 7, 2012 12:20 PM in response to mac.morten

Export them. Makes QuickTime movies of them. It's all covered in the Help.

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Answer 2

Aug 7, 2012 1:31 PM in response to mac.morten

You do know that the sun isn't really any bigger when it is on the horizon, right? It is just an optical illusion. I took photos at the US eclipse in May, and the sun does not look any bigger on the horizon. It is cool taking a photo without a filter, though.

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Answer 3

Aug 7, 2012 1:34 PM in response to mac.morten

And iMovie or Garageband are much better at slideshows that need to be timed closely with the music. You won't have to work so "laboriously".

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mac.morten Author

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Aug 8, 2012 4:39 AM in response to Yer_Man

Yeah - that way all images will last for 3 seconds with standard Ken Burns and standard transitions so your proposal did NOT solve my problems - do You have better solutions ?

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mac.morten Author

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Aug 8, 2012 4:41 AM in response to Keith Barkley

Yeah - I know that - and much more. But what about the solution of my problem ?

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Answer 6

Yer_Man

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Aug 8, 2012 5:46 AM in response to mac.morten

Yeah, I do. But as you're rude I've lost interest in helping you. You're welcome.

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mac.morten Author

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Aug 8, 2012 6:04 AM in response to Yer_Man

Sorry ? : So I'm the rude one ? You didn't show any interest in helping me from the beginning - at all - and how did You qualify to level 10 ? ? - Good Luck.

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Answer 8

Aug 8, 2012 6:46 AM in response to mac.morten

I thought Terrence *had* solved your problem!

If you export to Quicktime it will record your slideshow just how you created it, how does that not solve your problem?

The only way to actually solve your problem is to restore your old library and install the older version of iPhoto.

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mac.morten Author

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Aug 8, 2012 8:06 AM in response to Keith Barkley

Because :

1) :

When I export my iPhotoSlide show to QuickTime it results in that the first titelframe

has gone + all of the image lasts for 2 seconds + there are N O transitions and not a

single Ken Burns > so the advice did NOT solve my problem - at all.

2) :

And it has already shown "im-pletely com-possible" for me to restore my old library by

the Time Machine.

3) :

And IF I installed the older version of iPhoto it will remove the new version - of course

I tried that years ago but the effects-data could not be found anywhere - despite that I

phoned some Apple-supporters.

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Therefore I still have a deeply frustrating problem - I'm sorry - will somebody help me ?

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Answer 10

Aug 8, 2012 8:12 AM in response to mac.morten

Exporting to Quicktime only works when you have the Slideshow the way you want it. It is too late now.

If you can't go back to your old library, I am afraid there is nothing you can do except put in all the work again.

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mac.morten Author

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Aug 8, 2012 8:27 AM in response to Keith Barkley

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Hey Keith.

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What exactely do You mean by "Exporting to Quicktime only works when

you have the Slideshow the way you want it. It is too late now."

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Sorry - but : Why on Earth should I want to save the slideshow in a way

I did NOT want it to be ? ?

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. I find understanding rather absent in this thread

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. There are many things in this universe that I don't understand.

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. - including just that !

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Answer 12

Aug 8, 2012 8:50 AM in response to mac.morten

My understanding is that you had a slideshow they way you wanted it and an upgrade to iPhoto messed it up.

Exporting to Quicktime *when the slideshow was working* would have been a video file that was an exact duplicate of your slideshow.

Now that the slideshow is messed up, there is no magic quicktime button that will let quicktime restore your slideshow to the way it was, it can only record the current state of the slideshow.

I think you need a third party slideshow maker that can give you more flexibility and insulate you somewhat from Apple's upgrades.

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mac.morten Author

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Aug 8, 2012 2:10 PM in response to Keith Barkley

Yes - I know my messed up slide show has to be made again from the beginning - that's OK.

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But then - before I updated i'Life I tried to save it for friends and family but neither QuickTime

Player, iMovie, iDVD nor DVFilmmaker was able to make slideshows WITH all my settings for

image-duration, transitions, Ken Burns and music - it's apparently "im-pletely com-possible" to

do that - that's why I still think that Apple fails it's users by making it impossible to save a sli-

show exactely as it looks when played in iPhoto's own slideshow.

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BUT :

Now I'm actually making another slideshow of the 8 days in China for the total solar eclipse in

2009 - and my problem is the same : No matter what I do I can NOT save my slideshows with

all my nerdy settings - despite what You claim - NONE of my slideshow settings works after I

have exported the slideshows - anywhere - the settings works ONLY in iPhoto !

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So : I still have an - untill now - unsolved problem : Saving an iPhoto slide show as it looks in

iPhoto-slide-show.

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And You think "that I need a third party slideshow maker that can give me more flexibility and

insulate me somewhat from Apple's upgrades" - but I've searched the 3w several times during

the last 4 years for such a solution - but I have - untill now - not found any - at all. That's why

I'm trying this discussions-site - perhaps completely in vain ?

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😕

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Answer 14

Aug 8, 2012 3:06 PM in response to mac.morten

I've never had a problem exporting a slideshow from iPhoto, but my needs have been modest.

I can understand how iDVD and iPhoto might have problems with export, but iMovie should be a WYSIWIG. I would ask the same question on the iMovie forum, they might have ideas.

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Answer 15

soc08

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Jan 14, 2014 10:48 PM in response to mac.morten

I share your frustration and just a caution for anyone reading this. I was working on a large slideshow and needed it for an important occasion. I made a trial run and exported it to quicktime. Worked. HOWEVER went back to put finishing touches on the slideshow and it is GONE!!!! Make sure you are finished before you export to quicktime. It will be the one and only shot you get at it. Once it is exported it it is essentially erased from your iphoto library. Surely there must be a way to fix this.

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