Timing the audio track

[ma-donna]

I am almost done with a slideshow with music...My problem is I am in Video Wave and I'm adding the last two songs. The song is 3:04...it will only play 1:78.... Same with another song, only plays a few bars. I went to the edit site and tried to change the start and end graph. (the green wavy looking graph). My other songs in the beginning are fine now after lots of hours trying to figure it out.

 

The end Transition doesn't seem to want to work either, but that is not a big worry. I will leave the credits , showing "The End" etc...off if I cant figure that out.

 

I am using all my 2008 pictures for the slideshow and putting music to it, then I will erase all my pics off my computer and do a slideshow each year for my family and grandkids.

 

Help please.

Thanks

Ma-donna

[ma-donna]

Hi Sknis,

I went in to the settings ...I have it set to make the audio fit the video...According to that, I do have more songs than slideshow. So I went and did a preview and did not have enough songs for the photos. ?? So I am going back to square one, (except for the photos) and add the songs one by one ...I don't want to forget any of one years worth of pictures. I also forgot that I did add about 5 pictures to the batch. So that also put everything off. My problem is I want certain songs for certain pics. I'll be working on this project for months!! lol

Thanks for getting me on the tract to check the length more carefully...

Ma-donna

[bimicher]

Hi Sknis,

I went in to the settings ...I have it set to make the audio fit the video...According to that, I do have more songs than slideshow. So I went and did a preview and did not have enough songs for the photos. ?? So I am going back to square one, (except for the photos) and add the songs one by one ...I don't want to forget any of one years worth of pictures. I also forgot that I did add about 5 pictures to the batch. So that also put everything off. My problem is I want certain songs for certain pics. I'll be working on this project for months!! lol

Thanks for getting me on the tract to check the length more carefully...

Ma-donna

 

Here is another way of doing it.

You say you want certain songs to go with certain pictures. Instead of doing everything in one single project why not create several projects, for example, a project for each song with the associated pictures. You can then make adjustments within that project and they will have no effect on the other project.

You can adjust the photo duration to fit the length of a song automatically by using the "Fit video to audio length" option.

[ma-donna]

Sknis...

 

I'm got all my songs on now, (thanks to you)...and in the right places. But the last song is giving me problems now. It is too long, so I went to "trim" and I'm trying to cut off part of the end and cut of too much. So now trying to extend I got it to go to the spot where I want it to fade out and end...then when I preview, it goes back to the short version. If I can ever finish this, it will be really really nice! Something my family will love want to keep forever.

 

Thanks for your help.

Ma-donna

[sknis]

I am almost done with a slideshow with music...My problem is I am in Video Wave and I'm adding the last two songs. The song is 3:04...it will only play 1:78.... Same with another song, only plays a few bars. I went to the edit site and tried to change the start and end graph. (the green wavy looking graph). My other songs in the beginning are fine now after lots of hours trying to figure it out.

 

The end Transition doesn't seem to want to work either, but that is not a big worry. I will leave the credits , showing "The End" etc...off if I cant figure that out.

 

I am using all my 2008 pictures for the slideshow and putting music to it, then I will erase all my pics off my computer and do a slideshow each year for my family and grandkids.

 

Help please.

Thanks

Ma-donna

 

How long in time is you slide show? Remember only 1 hour of best quality. You have to have enough images in your slide show to assure that all the music plays. Are you using one or more audio tracks?

 

Perhaps the easiest way (and I have not done one this way) is to make a compilation of the audio using Sound Editor, adding that compilation to Video Wave and let Video Wave fit the images to the music. Add the images and the music and then from the top menu, select Production then Fit Video and Audio. (GrandpaBruce uses this method all the time.

 

Don't erase those pictures ! You'll want to change something in a slide show or a disc will go bad or any number of computer catastrophes will occur. Do you know how many people want to re-make slide shows and take out EX significant others? Get an external USB connected hard drive and copy the images and music to it. You can get a 1 terabyte hard drive for around $100.

 

[ma-donna]

My slideshow is only 23 minutes...the music will be around 28 minutes, which I thought I could trim if needed. The last two songs I deleted and am trying to reinput them one at a time, so it should take the 2 minute song at least ...I have gotten so far, I just hate having to do over again when everything is almost done. I will go in and check out the minutes left again.

Thanks for your response. Sknis

Ma-donna