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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