Quote: Hi, can we extend the playing time of a slideshow?
I selected 5 slides and made a slideshow out of it, using the cell template.
Each slide has a duration of 5 seconds.( i played with 10 secs and 20 sec's)
When the slideshow has been produced, the total time of the slide show is 9 seconds.
Is it possible to extend this time of the slideshow?
And if so, how?


PS. I know there is slideshow tempalte , where we can influence the time.
BR

Templates are fixed, there is little modification.

You can do many things in some slideshow templates, time is not so easy to change in the template.

You can, after the slideshow is produced, use Power Tools > Video Speed to slow down or speed up the video.

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Uncle Ben, What version of PowerDirector are you using? In PD12, the help menu says this:

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In the Style & Music window, click the Slideshow Preferences button to set your slideshow preferences as follows:

· Duration: use this option to set the length of your slideshow. Select Fit photos to music to have the length of the slideshow match the duration of the added background music. Select Fit music to photos (if launched in Full Feature Mode) for the length of the music to match the duration of the slideshow, i.e. its specified length on the timeline.

See image. I also assume that you are adding some audio to the slide show. If not, perhaps you can add it, turn down the volume and still be able to use these adjustments.

I don't know if that is available in your version. If not, Carl has given you a good workaround. .
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Hi Carl,
I tried your suggestion with Power Tools, but it did not work with me. I have PD11.
Once I have compiled a diashow, I select it in the time line and then the PowerTool option is not available.
It is only for the Audio part, which I can manipulate.

Hi Stevek,
I tried your suggestion as well, and it worked out as I want to be. !!
i made a dummy music for eg. 25 seconds and let the diashow time duration adapt to it.
in the time line, I killed that music and keep the background music.

So, I will continue in that way and many thanks for both replies.
It helped me a lot.

Best Regards,

Great, I love to find those kinds of (semihidden features in the program. .
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Quote: Hi Carl,
I tried your suggestion with Power Tools, but it did not work with me. I have PD11.
Once I have compiled a diashow, I select it in the time line and then the PowerTool option is not available.
It is only for the Audio part, which I can manipulate.

Hi Stevek,
I tried your suggestion as well, and it worked out as I want to be. !!
i made a dummy music for eg. 25 seconds and let the diashow time duration adapt to it.
in the time line, I killed that music and keep the background music.

So, I will continue in that way and many thanks for both replies.
It helped me a lot.

Best Regards,

I think you have to produce the Sideshow to a video, then bring that video to the timeline.

Power Tools should work then.

If you do that leave the music off until you have adjusted the speed.
Carl312: Windows 10 64-bit 8 GB RAM,AMD Phenom II X4 965 3.4 GHz,ATI Radeon HD 5770 1GB,240GB SSD,two 1TB HDs.