Slide show with music loses a slide

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jerrys

Senior Contributor Location: New Britain, CT, USA (between New York and Boston) Joined: Feb 10, 2010 21:36 Messages: 1038 Offline

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Dec 19, 2010 15:10

I plopped 44 stills into track #1, and made a slide show out of it. It almost worked.

I was very pleased with the results until I noticed that one of the slides had been replaced with blackness, as though there were nothing there.

By fiddling around, I discovered that the problem has to do with the sound track. I had the music set to fit the slides, and it repeated right around the place where the slide went missing. If I left out the music, there was no problem.

I'm attaching a pile of images to show my point. The slideshow should have "Jean" between "Jane" and "Jennifer" in every case, but you can see it disappear from the slideshow (before producing).

In "Before_slide_show" you can see that "Jean" is definitely there, between "Jane" and "Jennifer."

"Modify_screen_with_music" shows the modify screen in the slideshow process, and you can see that Jean is clearly there, between Jane and Jennifer. Although I specified a music track, everything looks okay here; but if I preview the slide show, Jean is missing.

"bad_timeline" shows the result of finishing the slideshow. This is just to illustrate that the music track ends and restarts shortly after Jane. As best I can tell, it actually does that at the end of where the "Jean" clip should be (which is also where the "Jennifer" clip begins).

More in the next message.


Filename	Modify_screen_with_music.png	Download
Description	This shows that the "Jean" clip is still lurking in the slideshow
Filesize	176 Kbytes
Downloaded:	111 time(s)


Filename	bad_timeline.png	Download
Description	This is the timeline of the resulting slideshow (the one with music)
Filesize	151 Kbytes
Downloaded:	97 time(s)


Filename	Before_slide_show.png	Download
Description	This is the timeline full of stills.
Filesize	252 Kbytes
Downloaded:	97 time(s)

Jerry Schwartz

jerrys

Senior Contributor Location: New Britain, CT, USA (between New York and Boston) Joined: Feb 10, 2010 21:36 Messages: 1038 Offline

Dec 19, 2010 15:34

Here are snips from the final, produced slide shows.

"bad_snippet" has a black space where "Jean" should be.

"good_snippet" has "Jean" between "Jane" and "Jennifer."

Unless someone has a better suggestion, I'm going to produce a silent slideshow and add a sound clip afterwards.

Filename	good_snippet.mpg	Download
Description	This snippet is from teh slideshow that did NOT have music with it
Filesize	6284 Kbytes
Downloaded:	275 time(s)

Filename	bad_snippet.mpg	Download
Description	This snippet is from the slideshow that had music with it
Filesize	3566 Kbytes
Downloaded:	269 time(s)

Jerry Schwartz