I'm also a little disappointed to see that there are no changes in the slideshow module. The bad situation is that there are few other software products for slide shows availabe on a Mac. iPhoto or iMovie require to have your photos in iPhoto (more disk space, no synch availabe, etc.). But back to Lightroom: for a photo amateur like me, the following features would make a great deal:

• different transitions, incl. Ken Burns
• individual time settings
• individual text layers
• more than one music track selectable

I wonder why others manage to provides fast slideshows with KenBurns (iPhoto). OTH if you create slideshows from RAW, then it requests lots of resources.

JimHess wrote:

 

And Lightroom, which is sluggish at best on some computers, just keeps getting slower and slower.  Keep demanding or requesting this stuff, and we'll all have to buy high end computers to even be able to run it.

Then how is Aperture able to do this efficiently? If you only wish to process RAW still images, just turn off the Modules you don't care for ... they don't use any resources if you don't visit them and utilize the features.

Butch_M wrote:

 

Aperture 3 eats LR's lunch (allows the inclusion of video clips, multiple audio tracks and timeline adjustmeents and plenty of creative transitions) ... nearly makes the $80 pricetag worth the puchase for this feature alone

That's all I use Aperture for.

I think it's well-understood that Slideshow is due a bit of love.

To play a Book as Slideshow is actually a smart idea !

If you have spent time to produce something that looks great page per page in print, the same is true in a slideshow, where also each slide(=page) must be able to stand interesting for its own. I'd agree the design principles are the same.

Then, of course, it is all the more vital, that duration can be set individually per page, to allow more time for more complex pages.

Your word/layout wishes should be covered, once the book module will have custom layout capability and be reusable to play as slideshow.

GJKeeneye wrote:

 

Lets hope the power that be can add a 'Book as slide function'..... It will go some way to update the Slideshow module....

Another valid reason that the Book Module should have the capability to export pages as a jpeg ....

It will be nice and about time to allow for multiple audio files insteads of just ONE audio file in the slideshow.........extra work to edit/create a music file if you want a longer duration for your slideshow.