Photos Slideshow won't time right

In Photos Slideshow whether I choose fit to music or custom the music stops with 7 or 8 more photos to go. I've messed with the timing slider... repaired Photos library, did disk utility, deleted saved application state, preferences and pertinent caches,..... nothing helps. Anyone have a fix besides taking it to iMovie detaching the audio and speeding up the video/pics?

iMac, macOS High Sierra (10.13.6)

Posted on Nov 12, 2018 10:39 AM

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Posted on Nov 14, 2018 7:45 AM

It will depend on the slideshow theme, if you can squeeze all photos into the slideshow to fit the music.

Photos needs a fixed minimum time for the transitions and a minimum time for each photo tor the animation effects. So try to use a theme, where the minus duration is less than the length of your sound track.


Some themes can play faster, because they will show several photos simultaneously.

I tested the minimum time required for a set of 100 photos for several themes by setting the duration to a custom length, with the slider set to "fastest".

This way I could see, that the Magazine theme can be used for a very fast slideshow with a minimum duration of 1:39 minutes. Vintage prints was the slowest with 5:44 minutes.


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The minimum duration:

Ken Burns: 4:23 minutes

Origami: 2:58

Reflections: 2:32

Sliding Panels: 1:45

Vintage prints 5:44

Classic: 2:28

Magazin 1:39

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Nov 14, 2018 7:45 AM in response to StevieCeeMe

It will depend on the slideshow theme, if you can squeeze all photos into the slideshow to fit the music.

Photos needs a fixed minimum time for the transitions and a minimum time for each photo tor the animation effects. So try to use a theme, where the minus duration is less than the length of your sound track.


Some themes can play faster, because they will show several photos simultaneously.

I tested the minimum time required for a set of 100 photos for several themes by setting the duration to a custom length, with the slider set to "fastest".

This way I could see, that the Magazine theme can be used for a very fast slideshow with a minimum duration of 1:39 minutes. Vintage prints was the slowest with 5:44 minutes.


User uploaded file


The minimum duration:

Ken Burns: 4:23 minutes

Origami: 2:58

Reflections: 2:32

Sliding Panels: 1:45

Vintage prints 5:44

Classic: 2:28

Magazin 1:39

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