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Thanks all. I'll try the copy and pasting from the CD to the "other" hard drive and run from there to see what happens. It's not that I don't want everyone sitting around the computer watching it....it's just that they don't all live here to watch it on my computer which right now seems to be the only one that it plays sync'd on. This is all new to me...like I said...I've only done two of them...and they both have had this same problem. Maybe I'm just not understanding how the program works. I bought the program from an on-line vender so I have no manual to thumb through...I just jumped in a gave it a try. As far as how I sync'd it....I added all my slides to the story board, picked out my music in the order I wanted it to play, then hit preview...when it came to a slide that needed the timing adjusted to fit with what words were being sung at that exact time I would highlight the frame, and adjust the frame time...and then hit preview again...and it would start at beginning again....and I would do it all over again for each frame. It was find in the beginnning....but after making adjustments 30 pictures into the thing....you start burning a lot of time waiting for it to preview all that you've already seen just to get to the last frame you adjusted to see if ya got it right. So yes....I would say I'm doing it the hard, long way....and I'd be up for trying the easy way if anyone wants to walk a newbie through it. Thanks April

Thanks for your responses. Ummm...the only "effect" I am using is the fade in and out and most of the slides are in the 4-5 second range with a few in the2 1/2 - 3 range, and a few to 6 seconds. I had resized the images in PS7 to a recommend size of 1024 x 768 with a medium compression of 6. My slide show is three songs long (about 13 minutes) and has 160 images. Mike...You're right....I should be happy if it works on my computer...and I am very happy with running the slideshow from my computer but I can't settle for that when the whole point of these slideshows were to share with my daughters grandparents and they won't be sitting around my computer to enjoy them. That was the whole point of putting on a CD. Maybe it's just me....but I like my work to be perfect!! I know...call me crazy. Thanks for the input. April Ken...I can't find the place where we talked about cut/paste etc...but I know how to cut and paste....I guess I just wasn't getting the whole "paste it instead of copying it" Maybe you can refresh my mind. Thanks, April

Mike, Ha....to answer your first question BOTH. April's the name and happens to be the month:) And yes...I was born in April and that's how I got my name. Okay....I am playing it from the same computer....just testing it as you mentioned. Now, I don't know if I follow what you mean by "paste". What I did was find the Exe file from my hard drive, copy it to the CD drive and burn it. Are you saying that when I highlight the file I should see if there is an option to paste it and not copy it?? SOrry if this is a super dumb question...I just don't get it. Thank you so much for your time in responding..because I was starting to give up!!!! HOpe to hear from you soon and see if you can help me through this. Sincerely, April

Hi there, I will first say I'm sorry if this is not the proper palce to post this as I am new to this forum. I just bought Pic2 and have made two slideshows. Both slideshow I spent HOURS sync'ing them to the music. I know there is probably a WAY faster easier way....but I'm new and it took me forever to do it manually. Anyway, after I previewed and it was perfefct I hit the create button and saved it onto my hard drive. When I run it from file on my hard drive.....it's perfect. So I then burned that file to a CD and that's where the problem is. Thank goodness I check after burning just the first one. The sync of the music with the slides are now off by several frames. This has happened both times with both slideshows. What am I doing wrong?? It's so frustrating that after all that time I spend on them...it was like a waste. I really hope someone can help me out here cuz I'm puling my hair out, crying and ready to delete the program entirely! Thanks in advance. April