Hi MAV2000 & RobRoy -
What you're both up against is using the slideshow templates, whether you do it via slideshow creator or from the main timeline. The templates completely ignore your image duration settings in Preferences (as you've found).
The way to get control of the duration & sync is to
build the slideshow manually.
e.g. Rob's slideshow needs to be 2:12 in duration. That's 66 photos at 2 sec duration each. If you're using Cross-type transitions (or none) that's fine. If you're using Overlap-type transitions, that will shrink the overall duration.
The other thing you can do is use the template to make the slideshow (without music) - produce - then speed up the produced file to match your music.
Ignore this if you're not interested... Example of what Overlap-type transitons do: 100 photos set to 2 sec duration. Total duration = 3:20 (200 secs). With 1 sec Cross-type transitions, that doesn't change. With 1 sec Overlap-type transitions the total duration is reduced to 1:41 (101 secs) because there are 99 transitions, so it's reduced by 99 seconds.
The good thing about building the slideshow manually, using (say) Magic Motion, is that you can control each image duration to sync with music.
Cheers - Tony
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