Length of timeline....

rhiggins wrote on 10/21/2003, 5:12 PM

I created a slideshow with a lot of JPG's and then added a MP3 and then created the movie.

During playback of the AVI at about 85% complete of the movie the pictures are done but the music is still playing.

How do I sync the pictures and the music together? I want the music to play all the way to the end and then the pictures to stop is there a way to randomize the pictures once it reaches the end until the music stops?

Thanks

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JohnnyRoy wrote on 10/21/2003, 7:34 PM

Synchronizing music and pictures takes a bit of playing around. If you want to hear the whole song then you need to add enough pictures to fill the time. If you don’t want to repeat pictures, you might keep each of them on the timeline longer adjusting their time to fill out the music. The quickest way to do this is as follows:

Step 1 : Right-click on the first picture on the timeline
Step 2 : Pick the Select Events to End from the pop-up context menu. This will select all the pictures on the timeline.
Step 3 : Type the letter ‘G’ to group the pictures together
Step 4 : Scroll to the end of the timeline and hold the Ctrl key while stretching the last event to the duration of the music. You should now see a zig-zag line the length of the timeline which indicates it has been time stretched.

That’s it. This works with picture shows because the pictures are static and stretching them only affects the time they are displayed on the screen. If these were AVI files, they would play in slow motion, which is probably not the desired effect you were looking for.

Alternately, you could adjust the music by cutting out a verse or extra chorus to make it shorter. MovieStudio will allow you to do nondestructive editing to shorten or lengthen the song. Usually you also have to adjust the length of the pictures as well as cut the length of the song to get a perfect match.

There is no magic here. I usually try and pick a song that’s shorter then the pictures and then lengthen it by adding verses or choruses multiple times. People might miss it more of you make the song shorter than if you make it longer (especially if you cut out their favorite verse). Many "extended play" cuts of song are done this way so it seems more natural an approach.

~jr