sync slideshow with duration of music

[stretch69]

I'm creating a slideshow with Videostudio 10. Is there a way to sync the slideshow with the duration of the music file I am using?

[Black Lab]

I believe you can do this with the Movie Wizard, although I don't use the Wizard.

Using the editor you can use a SmartSound track.

Or, if you have your own track just divide the length of the song by the number of slides you have, and that will give you the length of each slide, which you can preset in Preferences.

[Ken Berry]

Unless your slideshow is pretty short, say 40 or 50 photos, then the usual display time for each to get a good look at them (4 or 5 seconds on screen) might become too short if, say, your selected music is only 3 minutes long.

What I usually do in such cases is use a third party audio editing program (I use Nero's Wave Editor, but others use the freeware Audacity) to join more than 1 piece of music together and then save them as one audio file which I can then insert behind my longer slideshow. By using the division method just suggested by Black Lab, I can thus have continuous, well timed music which has a proper beginning and end, and a chance to see the images for more than a second or two.