I got that part down, but how do you export a slideshow into a movie using a theme such as "shatter?"

To use themes in iDVD you need to drag the movies into the move drop zones.

Awesome! You were a huge help. thanks loads

Thank you very much, it did exactly as I wanted it to! Now I have what I needed for my brothers bday!

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.

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..

If you burn a CD then reimport it into iTunes it will work just fine!

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.

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.

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

The slideshow I created in iphoto looks great when I play it with that app, but posted into my website via iweb, the vertical photos are visibly wobbly. The horizontals are fine. Is there a way to correct for this? Thanks for your time.

Hi. I'm not sure what wobbly means. Can you email me the web address at basics4mac@mac.com so I can take a look?

Chris

Excellent advice - thanks!
Question: is there a way to change frames in iPhoto? I am using about 40 pictures and I would like to be able to control the size, sequence and what picture goes to what frame.
I appreciate your help,

I'm sorry, I don't understand what you mean by "frames". Can you be a bit more specific?

Chris

When you select Scrapbook in Themes all your pictures appear in frames. It seems that the iPhoto program has pages with a set amount of frames: single frames on most pages but multiple frames on some pages. I have not been about to figure out how to determine which picture to place in what frame.
I hope this makes sense to you.
Andre

OK, I'm with you now…I haven't used the Scrapbook theme in a while.

As far as I know there isn't any way to control what frame template is used at any given place in the slide show. The most control you have is to move the photos on the top bar left and right to change the order which puts them into different frames.

It isn't like creating a book where you can choose a template for each page.

Thanks, but I don't get how to publish to You Tube. With imovie it's easy using Share, but don't where to go with this. When I right click on the mv4 file that gets created by above process I ca see how to burn onto a DVD only. Thanks Jenni.

I've just completed a DVD created on my old Power PC 2005 iMac and it's gorgeous! We have icebergs in town and the opportunity for stunning pics just couldn't be ignored. I've played the DVD on my 46 inch flat screen in a blu-ray player and even though the pics are not HD the results are wonderful.
I created the slideshow in iPhoto 6, added music from my iTunes stock, clicked on "share" and "send to iDVD". The number of themes to chose from there are numerous. I dragged and dropped a few pics to the "preview" theme, titled as desired and burned the whole business on my optical drive. No problems at all.
I"m in the market for a new iMac and I sincerely hope I can continue to make my DVDs, as I have been doing for years, on the new one. If not, this old iMac will stay in the house for a very long time.

Actually, iDVD isn't included with new Macs any more since it has officially been abandoned by Apple.

If you bought iLife '11 on DVD you can install it on the new Mac. iLife '11 is still available for sale at least as of now.

Where can I purchase iLife '11. I don't think it's available anymore. I have a new Mac, so I don't have iDVD. How can I put my slideshow to DVD? :-( I have Xilisoft DVD Creator 6, which I've used to create other DVD movies, but when I try to use it to put the SlideShow to DVD, it tells me that it's not a valid movie. I've tried exporting the SlideShow with both iMovie and iPhoto using both .mov and .m4v(whatever it is). I literally tried for hours to no avail!!! Please, please, help :-(