Slide Show

[mxpxpxpx]

Hello I am creating a slide show with many pictures, but I can not figure out how to make the two songs I have play back to back, I have to select different audio tracks, and also how do you change the slide duration for all the slides at once instead of one at a time? I am using DVDWS 2






Thanks for your help.

[Ken Berry]

Others more expert in Workshop than I am will no doubt have their own views. But I would not have thought that Workshop is really the best program to be doing a slideshow in. I am sure it can do it, but it seems to be that as an Authoring tool, it is not really set up to do what is essentially an Editing job. Doing slideshows is far easier in Movie Factory in just about any version, and has become far more reliable and easy in the last couple of versions of Video Studio 10.

That being said, you can change the universal setting for a clip's duration in the general Preferences when you click on the hammer and spanner icon in the top left of screen, and go to the Default Settings tab. But I assume that DWS acts like the other Ulead programs in this regard, and you have to have this setting made before you actualy start compiling the slideshow. In the other programs, if you have already started your project, you can simply take all the images out of the 'timeline' and put them in a 'library' pane. Then change the default setting. Then drag and drop the photos back into the timeline.

As for joining two songs back to back during a slideshow, again if DWS behaves like the other Ulead programs in this regard, it can't be done within the program itself. When I prepare a slideshow in MF5 (and in previous versions), I simply open all the music titles I want in a third party audio editing program, do whatever trimming is necessary to get rid of initial and final silences, and then simply save as a single .wav file. Then add that as the background music to the slideshow.

But as I say, maybe someone with greater expertise than me in DWS will have a better and easier idea.

[sjj1805]

I have DVD Workshop 2 but have never used it to create a slideshow.
I use one of the following products to create the slideshow as a video file
MediaStudio Pro
VideoStudio
MovieFactory
Proshow Gold

THEN

I use DVD Workshop to turn that video slideshow into a DVD.
For an example of one of my slideshows created with MediaStudio Pro please click here:
Telford

[GeorgeW]

To change the duration for all your slides at the same time, highlight all of them on the right-hand side (click the top one, hold SHIFT, and click the bottom slide). Then on the LEFT side of the screen, change the seconds.

For multiple songs, you can do as Ken suggested (edit in another program to join multiple songs into one longer song). For longer slideshows, I like to create separate shows. For instance, one slide show will have ~40 pictures in it, and SONG-A. Then I create another slideshow, and add SONG-B for its background music. having the break between slideshows lets you separate and group pictures "logically", and then select the song style for that logical grouping of pictures...

Regards,
George