QuickTime slideshows with iLife: Good; Better; Best.
iPhoto's role in the iLife suite of applications has been greatly enhanced -- and its overall usefulness increased -- by the abilities of iMovie and iDVD to share more directly the iPhoto library. These are important capabilities for those of us using iLife since iPhoto's native ability to share its photos through QuickTime is, by comparison, lacking.
The reason we, as iLife users, have gone through the trouble of storing digitial photos in the iPhoto application is because we'd like to share those images with others. Perhaps we'd like to share our images through traditional photographic prints. Perhaps it's through a web page. Many of us -- myself included -- like the idea of publishing tidy slideshows, complete with music, to QuickTime for viewing by others on a website or other distribution methods. It would be nice to have greater power and flexibility in sharing slidehshows in this method than presently offered by iPhoto. I put a more robust QuickTime export at the top of my list for iPhoto improvements.
In iPhoto, it is, of course, posssible to create a QuickTime version of iPhoto's elegant on-screen slideshow feature. The resultant QuickTime file can be shared via e-mail, the Internet or through CD. Unfortunately, the QuickTime version created by iPhoto lacks the ability to properly pace photos to the length of musical accompanyment or to, at least, fade the music out as the QuickTime file approaches its end. What you're left with is a slideshow that quits abrubtly, stopping not only on the last photo but cutting off the music when the photos end. This can be a bit jarring for anyone looking to create a neat user experience and a bit jarring to users who suddenly find themsleves at the end of a slideshow without visual or audio clues that the slideshow is appaoching its conclusion. Luckily, with a bit of simple math, iPhoto can be used to produce a tidy QuickTime slideshow keeping labor to a minimum.
Good: Tweeking iPhoto:
To produce a QuickTime slideshow that matches the pace of photos to the length of a muscial accompanyment, try this method:
What you have is a slideshow built to the length of your musical selection.
Better: iDVD as slideshow creator
An alternative to the iPhoto QuickTime export is to use the iDVD button under the "Organize" button to send your photo selections to the iDVD application. iDVD preserves the characteristics of your iPhoto slideshow, including your musical selection. The resultant slideshow in iDVD, however, goes beyond iPhoto's offering by giving you the ability to tweak the slideshow by adjusting transitions or by adjusting the "slide duration" to a specific time measurement or to the useful "Fit to Audio" option. This "Fit to Audio" feature measures the length of musical accompanyment and adjusts the slide time of each photo so that all photos are displayed within the length of the chosen song(s).
While iDVD improves upon the iPhoto slideshow option, it is not perfect. First, when you use the iDVD button within iPhoto, your slideshow is opened in iDVD on top of whatever iDVD project you were last working on. Probably not what you had in mind. The work around for this is to open iDVD prior to doing your iPhoto export and creating a new project. Secondly, true to the nature of the application, your newly created slideshow can be shared with others only if your were planning to burn a DVD for distribution.
A more useful, albeit more labor intensive, work around for obtaining better QuickTime exports from your iPhoto selections is to use iMovie.
iMovie as slideshow creator
One method of using iMovie to improve upon iPhoto's QuickTime slideshows is to import the QuickTime file from iPhoto into iMovie.
A better method for creating slideshows is to, in effect, rebuild the iPhoto slideshow within iMovie. Again, this is more labor intensive but worth the effort if you prefer varying transitions between photos, use of the "Ken Burns Effect" or properly paced slides fit the length of selected pieces of music.
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