Hi Tomasz -

My observation is that using the slideshow templates will give you quite a different duration result than applying transitions "manually".

As an example:
10 photos in timeline - assigned duration of 10 seconds each - applied Normal slideshow template - total duration 41 secs... changed duration of all photos to 20 secs - - applied Normal slideshow template - total duration 41 secs... same total time.

Same 10 photos in timeline - - assigned duration of 10 seconds each - apply random transitions to all - total duration 1:22

As Dafydd said in another topic, transitions can't be greater than half the length of the smaller of the 2 image/clip durations.

To resolve it, apply transitions "manually".

Cheers - Tony
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Thank you Tony,
What should I do to have slideshow with 50 photos in duration 8 sec each ?
Best regards
Tomasz

Tomasz -
Line up the 50 shots in the timeline. Select all of them (use shift key) and set duration to 8 seconds. NB. If the want each image to stay on screen for a full 8 seconds, set duration to (say) 10 secs.

In the transition room, click on the 4 square icon (yellow). Select "Apply random/fading transitions to all".

Edit: You can change the default transition time in Preferences.

The alternative is inserting eac transition one by one.

Job done.

Cheers - Tony
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Thank you Tony,
Now , I know why I had problems.Always after I have put the photo to the timeline, I tried to use button "SLIDESHOW". Then I had different duration as I fixed and expect.
OK, when should we use the SLIDESHOW button ?
King regards
Tomasz

Use slideshow button when you want to use one of the templates...

In PD8, some of these are customisable.

Have a look at Dafydd's tutorial at http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=CyberLinkChannel#play/uploads/1/Rn7ryNahhFs

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Be careful with the slideshow template. I just made one with 300 pictures using the template. At a later time I wanted to move some of the pics and delete some others and when I clicked on the expand slide option all my pictures were entirely out of order and I had to reorder all of them.

In this process I made the major mistake of not saving the pds file before applying the slide show option. This is advice I've told others to do in the past, but forgot to do it myself. Live and learn. Q9300 2.5 GHz
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The slideshow function over-rides the duration of the images.
If you wish, you can create your slideshow, just the slideshow, render the file, then bring that file into your project.
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Thank you for passing that on James - I'll make a mental note of that... ON MY FOREHEAD!
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