matching slideshow stills to audio clip

[AVITRY]

Hi all. I'm looking in PE3 how to automatically have the slideshow end when the music audio track ends. My slideshow is longer, and I know I can manually play with duration, but how or where is the setting to automatically set them. I can't find it.

thanks,
joe

[Chuck Engels]

There is a setting in Photoshop Elements that will set the slideshow to end with the music, but not Premiere Elements. It's all pretty much manually done Joe.

[Steve Grisetti]

Here's an old trick that may work for you, Joe.

Use File/Export/Movie (or Share/Computer/AVI in newer versions of the program) to output a DV-AVI of our slideshow.

Open a new DV project and bring in the slideshow AVI. Place your AVI on Video 1 and music on the soundtrack.

Right-click on the AVI on your timeline and select Time Stretch. Speed up or slow down your slideshow until it's the same length as your music.

[AVITRY]

Thanks guys .... LOL, that's just what I did Steve, although all the time I was doing it, I was sure I was missing something. Thanks!.

[Chuck Engels]

You know, I had completely forgotten about that trick Steve
That was a very common answer/solution back in version 2 and 3, how could I forget
It would still be a reasonable solution today, glad you figured it out Joe

[George Tyndall]

There is a setting in Photoshop Elements that will set the slideshow to end with the music....

That is the chief reason that I begin all my slide shows in PSE7 before a Send to PRE7.

The second most important reason is that PSE makes it so very easy to apply a pan and zoom to all the slides.

After a number of years of using the programs, I'm still amazed by Adobe's ability to make the PRE/PSE7 bundle work so well together.