exporting/sharing slideshow in iOS Photos

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exporting/sharing slideshow in iOS Photos

I took a series of pics this morning on my new iPad Pro 9.7". When we got home, I looked at them and idly clicked on "slideshow", which I had never used before. I found that a) you could pick amongst different themes with built in music and b) hook it up to the TV and watch it there. All very cool.

I then tried to find a way to save/export the slide show exactly the way it was. Starting a project in iMovie did not do it and I do not do anything cloud related, so that is out. I tried every option/button I could find, but could not figure out if there is a way to export/airdrop to my iMac. I am able to send the pics - but that is not what I am wanting to do; the slideshow theme I was using was really cool and that is how I'd like to export it (as a finished/ready to go slideshow).

FWIW, could not find anything directly relevant in the user guide.

Anyone with any ideas? If anyone thinks this would be better addressed in the iPad forum (but there is no Photos subcategory), please have it moved.

iMac, OS X Yosemite (10.10.5), 2012 i7 3.4 GHz 16 GB RAM

Posted on Apr 17, 2016 2:42 PM

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babowa Author

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Apr 17, 2016 6:12 PM in response to léonie

Ahh, you are amazing! (I had never opened Photos on my iMac because I prefer other apps for editing and don't care for the library file structure). In any case, I airdropped them to the iMac, imported them into Photos and was able to create the same slideshow - I will be working on it later to do some finetuning. The other thing I found is that I can actually export them as a movie file which means I can burn it to a DVD.

Very cool - vielen herzlichen Dank!

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Feb 27, 2017 8:01 AM in response to Thailand Amulets

Thailand Amulets wrote:

The only question i have is 'why cant we do it in iOs?

Because Apple didn't make that an option. As no one here works for Apple, that's the most we can say.

Submit any suggestions you have to Apple here:

http://www.apple.com/feedback

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Feb 26, 2017 11:16 PM in response to babowa

The only question i have is 'why cant we do it in iOs? just save to camera roll, because the actuall workload is ten times less on the iOS device than it is using iPhoto or Photos app on a Mac. As a workaround, i plug my iphone into the Mac and start Quicktime Player Pro, and do a 'movie recording' which records the slideshow from the phone to a .mov file on the Mac, by way of screen recording

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léonie

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Feb 27, 2017 8:21 AM in response to Thailand Amulets

The iPhone and the Mac are very different devices, with different strength. The devices are having different processors, different storage, different displays, different means for users to interact. Apple is designing the apps to work best on each device, offering the functionality that is best supported there. It is unfortunate, that the photo applications are having the same name on the iOS devices as on the Mac. People expect the applications to be able to do the same, but it is natural, that Photos on the Mac is offering not exactly the same tools as Photos on the iPhone or iPad. If you look at GarageBand, the differences there are even more noticeable. GarageBand on the iPad is primarily an application to use the iPad as a musical instrument to make music, and it has little support for arranging music, while GarageBand on the Mac has the better music editing and mixing tools.

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léonie

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Apr 17, 2016 3:18 PM in response to babowa

As far as I know, there is no way to export a slideshow in Photos iOS.

It used to be able in iPhoto iOS. We couls share a slideshow as a webpage and ply it online, but the creative sharing options - books, slideshow, journals are missing from Photos iOS.

Not even iCloud Photo Library does transfer the slideshows between devices,

YOu could only try tor recreate the slideshow in Photos on your Mac.

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léonie

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Apr 17, 2016 11:12 PM in response to babowa

You're welcome, babowa!

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Answer 7

Jun 29, 2016 5:03 PM in response to babowa

If you created a slideshow in Photos, how did you export it as a movie? I'm having lots of trouble with figuring out how to share a Photos slideshow across platforms.

Thanks!

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babowa Author

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Jun 29, 2016 7:03 PM in response to joyceonholly

I did not export the slideshow. If you'll look at leonie's post, you'll see the suggestion to recreate the slideshow in Photos on my Mac.

So, what I did (and still am doing) is to airdrop the photos to my iMac, create a slideshow in Photos, export as a movie, and (if you want) you can airdrop that back onto your iPad. I've then been deleting the photos on the iPad and just keep the slideshow.

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Jun 30, 2016 2:57 AM in response to babowa

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Jun 30, 2016 9:10 PM in response to babowa

Thanks for the reply. I should have made a distinction in my question between making a slideshow -- just grouping a bunch of slides -- and making a Slideshow (capital S, an Apple project). It's a different challenge and now I will never create another Slideshow! However, I did a workaround. I exported the Slideshow to Google Drive, which made it into a movie, a platform that YouTube recognizes. I then created a YouTube movie. Lots of hassle, but I learned a lot about Photos.

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babowa Author

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Jun 30, 2016 9:37 PM in response to joyceonholly

I think you lost me - a slideshow is a collection of photos (not slides); Photos will do it for you or you can make your own; I imported one photo at a time and then put them together. You can also make a slideshow in iMovie (or several third party apps). You can send your project to several online places directly from iMovie (and also Photos I believe; however, I am not near my iPad at the moment to confirm).

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Answer 12

Aug 29, 2016 6:53 PM in response to babowa

Sadly this appears to be one of the MANY shortcomings in the functionality of iPhoto.. most likely purposely to open many doors for app developers. Hundreds, literally, of apps that make this task easy

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