Lock slide to timeline

[1TrickDog]

The ability to lock a slide’s timings is useful. However the ability to lock the start, and or end of a slide to the timeline would be valuable. Say I have 50 slides with two audio files for a 6 minute show. The first audio file ends at the 3 minute mark and the second begins. If I had the ability to lock the start of slide 26 to the 3 minute mark, I could then play around with the timings for slides 1 through 25 without moving slides 26 through 50 on the timeline. This way one change early in the timeline will not cascade down the timeline to slides associated with other audio files. It would allow you to sync your slides to your audio files as you develop your show, and if later you wanted to changes timings in one segment, you would not have to worry about it throwing the rest of you show timings off.

Another option would be to lock a slide to a portion of an audio file, that way if you move the start of that slide on the timeline the audio file will follow and that slide as well as the ones that follow will stay in sync with music.

Just a thougth from a computer geek, but a PSP noob.

[BarbaraC]

Imagining myself trying to use such a function, my brain went into frizzle mode (very scientific term). If a slide is locked to a specific spot in the audio, then any adjustment you make previous to it will necessarily adjust all timing for the slides in between it and the locked slide. This would mean that if, say, slide 25 is locked and if you adjust slide 3, everything from slide 4 through slide 24 will have to be automatically recalculated. If you keep going like this up through the slides until you reach slide 25, you could easily find that the gods have seen fit to give number 25 a length of 0 or 108 or something equally untoward.

Barbara

[tdew]

I think it could be very useful if you had a specific bit of music that you wanted to use for the later part of a show.
Say you started out with two songs. The 2nd was exactly as you'd hoped, but the first one was not so great. You've now come up with a different song to use for the first part- but you'd like to keep the 2nd exactly as it is.
You could then start the new first song and adjust the slides for that part without changing anything in the 2nd song.
Or am I missing something?

[BarbaraC]

I think it could be very useful if you had a specific bit of music that you wanted to use for the later part of a show.

That sounds GOOD.

Barbara

[dikster]

My shows typically run 50-60 minutes, have several "chapters" and use lots of songs. For example, a travelogue on Europe might have chapters on individual countries. It would be great if I could select more than one Italian song and sync them to the slides in the chapter on Italy.

dik

[ginger]

I have to cast my vote for this one too. I'd like the option to be able to define the slide where a song will end, and then fiddle with the slides in that section to get the timing right.

ginger