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Publishing your iPhoto Slideshow to DVD, MobileMe or YouTube
Easy ways to share your slideshows.
iPhoto easily creates slideshows but they are limited to running in iPhoto. This tip shows how to prepare your iPhoto Slideshow to be shared with others.

  • Start by creating a slideshow in iPhoto.
    1. Select the photos you want to include in the slideshow and click the + button on the bottom left of the iPhoto window. Choose Slideshow. Reorder the images as desired.
    2. Select a Theme for your slideshow.
    3. Select the music to accompany your slide show. You can choose any of the music from your iTunes library. How to have more than one song in your slideshow
    4. Test your slide show. Make sure the music you have chosen fits your images. Check the Ken Burns effect to make sure that it isn't cutting off the important part of any of your images. If it is, check out How to set the Ken Burns effect for individual images in your slide show. [iPhoto '09] [For iPhoto '08]
  • Once you are satisfied with your slide show, you are ready to do the steps to convert it to a movie which can be shared in several ways.
    1. In iPhoto, select the slide show and go to File / Export on the Menu Bar.
    2. For iPhoto '09: Choose the Slideshow tab. For Sizes check Large and uncheck Automatically send slideshows to iTunes. Click Export.
    3. For iPhoto '08: Leave the size as Large, and click Export.
You will get a progress bar and the conversion is very slooooow.

Now that you have the slideshow movie prepared, you can share it in any of the following ways:

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Publishing your iPhoto Slideshow to DVD, MobileMe or YouTube
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, December 30 2009
I got that part down, but how do you export a slideshow into a movie using a theme such as "shatter?"
Publishing your iPhoto Slideshow to DVD, MobileMe or YouTube
Authored by: chrisb on Wednesday, December 30 2009
To use themes in iDVD you need to drag the movies into the move drop zones.
Publishing your iPhoto Slideshow to DVD, MobileMe or YouTube
Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, December 31 2009
Awesome! You were a huge help. thanks loads
Publishing your iPhoto Slideshow to DVD, MobileMe or YouTube
Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, March 18 2010
Thank you very much, it did exactly as I wanted it to! Now I have what I needed for my brothers bday!
Publishing your iPhoto Slideshow to DVD, MobileMe or YouTube
Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, May 29 2010
Hi,
I have a question. I want to share an iphoto slideshow accompanied by music purchased from itunes. However, the music won't play on other computers because of licensing issues. I'd like to show the slideshow at my daughter's school. What can I do? Thanks.
Publishing your iPhoto Slideshow to DVD, MobileMe or YouTube
Authored by: chrisb on Sunday, May 30 2010
Hi - I don't have time to look in to this fully, since I am on vacation, but I think if you buy your music tracks from mp3.amazon.com you won't have the problem since amazon tracks don't have the same protections..
Burning to a DVD
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, June 04 2010
Here is the problem I encounter.
I have a Macbook pro with the latest version of Snow Leapord.
I did every step that you showed. However, with four minutes to go on the burn, it ejected the DVD disk. I tried several disks. Does the same thing. I tried a few other programs to burn and it does the same. It reads from disks with no problem. Just keeps kicking the disks out without a error message.
Publishing your iPhoto Slideshow to DVD, MobileMe or YouTube
Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, August 30 2010
Is there a way to convert the iPhoto slideshow to play on a webpage created via iWeb. I have a MacBook Pro with the lastest O/S and apps installed. Thanks for any assistance you can provide.
Publishing your iPhoto Slideshow to DVD, MobileMe or YouTube
Authored by: chrisb on Monday, August 30 2010
Sure, no problem.

Create the slideshow movie as in this tip then create your movie page in iWeb.

Your slideshow movie will be in a folder called iPhoto Slideshows inside of your pictures folder.

Drag the slideshow movie into the movie placeholder in iWeb.

iWeb will do all of the work of resizing the video as needed for the web when you publish the site

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