I'm making a photo slideshow DVD in iDVD (iPhoto->Share->iDVD) and I
want to have each picture moved on manually, not after a time limit.
However, the Slide Duration dropdown has 'Manual' greyed out. What
governs this?

iDVD 7.0.2 on 10.5.3

Jim
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jim  wrote:

> I'm making a photo slideshow DVD in iDVD (iPhoto->Share->iDVD) and I
> want to have each picture moved on manually, not after a time limit.
> However, the Slide Duration dropdown has 'Manual' greyed out. What
> governs this?
> 
> iDVD 7.0.2 on 10.5.3

[sigh] never mind. Turn out if you do it that way you can't have a
manual move, but if you create a new iDVD project and add a slideshow,
you can.

Bad Apple.

Jim
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jim  wrote:

> jim  wrote:
> 
> > I'm making a photo slideshow DVD in iDVD (iPhoto->Share->iDVD) and I
> > want to have each picture moved on manually, not after a time limit.
> > However, the Slide Duration dropdown has 'Manual' greyed out. What
> > governs this?
> > 
> > iDVD 7.0.2 on 10.5.3
> 
> [sigh] never mind. Turn out if you do it that way you can't have a
> manual move, but if you create a new iDVD project and add a slideshow,
> you can.
> 
> Bad Apple.

No, I misunderstood - it's if you have audio playing. If you have
background music it won't let you choose a manual move. Weird.

Jim
-- 
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 exploding cake." - Adam West, Batman. 

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jim  wrote:

> jim  wrote:
> 
> > jim  wrote:
> > 
> > > I'm making a photo slideshow DVD in iDVD (iPhoto->Share->iDVD) and I
> > > want to have each picture moved on manually, not after a time limit.
> > > However, the Slide Duration dropdown has 'Manual' greyed out. What
> > > governs this?
> > > 
> > > iDVD 7.0.2 on 10.5.3
> > 
> > [sigh] never mind. Turn out if you do it that way you can't have a
> > manual move, but if you create a new iDVD project and add a slideshow,
> > you can.
> > 
> > Bad Apple.
> 
> No, I misunderstood - it's if you have audio playing. If you have
> background music it won't let you choose a manual move. Weird.

Have you got the 'fit to track length' selected? That will fix the
slideshow to the time of the music track.

-- 
Andy Hewitt
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Andy Hewitt  wrote:

> > No, I misunderstood - it's if you have audio playing. If you have
> > background music it won't let you choose a manual move. Weird.
> 
> Have you got the 'fit to track length' selected? That will fix the
> slideshow to the time of the music track.

I think I've figured it out - if you have music then it has to be able
to fit the length of the slideshow to the music (by looping the track if
needs be) but as it all has to be pre-rendered then it has to know how
long each slide will be on screen - hence you can't have music if you
want to use the left-and-right arrows on the remote to advance the
slides.

Jim
-- 
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 exploding cake." - Adam West, Batman. 

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