Are you trying to edit the slide show? You can't do it very easily !.

Open the project ; it is a " .pds " file and edit that. You should be able to open the project from PowerDirector or search for it on your computer and then right click to open with Power Director. .
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Quote Are you trying to edit the slide show? You can't do it very easily !.

Open the project ; it is a " .pds " file and edit that. You should be able to open the project from PowerDirector or search for it on your computer and then right click to open with Power Director.

Thank you for the reply. I am able to open the file in Power Director but it's very hard to move photos around because it puts you in the Timeline edit mode. Ideally, I'd like to be able to go back in the photo slideshow mode where I can easily drag & drop photos around, then resave it again. The timeline edit mode is very complicated and hard to navigate. Is there a way to open the file back up and do all the edits in Slideshow mode (move photos, add music, add photos), then save again? That would be perfect!

Tom

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Thank you for the reply. I am able to open the file in Power Director but it's very hard to move photos around because it puts you in the Timeline edit mode. Ideally, I'd like to be able to go back in the photo slideshow mode where I can easily drag & drop photos around, then resave it again. The timeline edit mode is very complicated and hard to navigate. Is there a way to open the file back up and do all the edits in Slideshow mode (move photos, add music, add photos), then save again? That would be perfect!

Tom

In the menu near the top, go to "view" and then select "Storyboard view." The individual imaqges will appear in a block pattern. You can select and move as you like. Make sure there are no blank blocks when you are finished. .
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Hi TominOH -

When you select your slideshow block in the timeline, you can click:

Slideshow - which allows you to start again. The photo order can be modified within each template in Slideshow creator.

Customise (for some templates)

(right click) Remove Slideshow Effects - which shows the individual photos. Re-order as you wish then select Slideshow & make sure you check "Timeline Order" when setting up your slideshow.



Cheers - Tony
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Quote Hi TominOH -

When you select your slideshow block in the timeline, you can click:

Slideshow - which allows you to start again. The photo order can be modified within each template in Slideshow creator.

Customise (for some templates)

(right click) Remove Slideshow Effects - which shows the individual photos. Re-order as you wish then select Slideshow & make sure you check "Timeline Order" when setting up your slideshow.



Cheers - Tony

Tony - Thanks for the reply. We must be doing something very wrong. I consider myself to be somewhat tech saavy but this program is not user friendly. The program is so easy to use initially once you're in the storyboard and organize your photos but once you create the video and save it, it becomes extremely difficult to make any quick modifications when you go back in. Is it just me?

Occasionally I have produced the slideshow (in my case as aH264 m2ts file) and edited that.

It does mess up the audio, but there is a benefit of editing the audio to suit the slideshow which sometimes does quite fit with the original.

rgds

I'm so frustrated by this as well! I have 315 images in a slideshow and ONE is upside down! I can't figure out how to remove or flip that one picture without starting completely over. Did you have any luck?

Quote I'm so frustrated by this as well! I have 315 images in a slideshow and ONE is upside down! I can't figure out how to remove or flip that one picture without starting completely over. Did you have any luck?

ynotfish's post from Jan 4 shows the steps to edit the problem clip on the timeline. Once you've removed the slideshow effect, double-click on the image tp open the PiP Designer and set the Rotation to 180. Save the change, then go back to the timeline and select all of the images, then (re)create the slideshow with your same settings.

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Quote I'm so frustrated by this as well! I have 315 images in a slideshow and ONE is upside down! I can't figure out how to remove or flip that one picture without starting completely over. Did you have any luck?

Hi,
Running PDR 17.3.2721.0

As far as I can tell PDR still ignores some timeline edits, particularly the orientation flag when using the edited image in a slideshow.

The only certain method to correct the issue in your case, may be to correct the orientation in an external imaging program so that it displays correctly and then use that corrected image in your slideshow.

So, if you can get back to your slideshow on the timeline, remove the slideshow effects (painful if youve done a lot of customisation), substitiute the corrected image and re-run your slideshow build.

As a long shot, depending on the slideshow effect used, you might be able to run the same slideshow build on the single corrected image and then insert that into your finished slideshow video - in effect overwriting the original upside down image with the corrected single slideshow??

Cheers
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