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Maintain iPhoto album image order within iDVD slide shows Apps
I have worked with many users who like to take iPhoto albums and make DVDs of them with iDVD. However, one very annoying bug (feature?) has to do with the fact that when you are in iDVD, it randomizes the sort order of the Photos in your album. Not only that, but it is painstaking and time consuming changing the order in iDVD.

My solution..

Select All in the album in iPhoto you want to use in iDVD as a slideshow. Then use File -> Export -> File Export. The secret is to select "Use Album Name" as this will rename the images in sequential order, based on the order that you put them in. Save them in their own new folder somehwere easy to find (ie on the Desktop).

Then, in iDVD, either drag, or I believe you can import the entire folder into the Slideshow project window, and voila! your slides are in order. I believe you can throw away the folder with the exported images as they should now be saved into the Project, but don't quote me on that.

Good luck, and Apple, please fix this! Making a DVD should be easy, not rocket science. It takes a novice 30 minutes to do what I just described -- and it's not documented anywhere.
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Don't delete them unitll you're done
Authored by: sebastienb on Oct 09, '03 11:57:16AM

Don't delete the files until you're done the disc; it will still reference the original files, even if you added them as data to the disc.

Once the image is done, then you can safely delete them.



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Don't delete them unitll you're done
Authored by: Old Toad on Oct 09, '03 04:14:11PM

Also don't move the folder or iDVD will lose it's link. Best to put the folder into the iDVD project folder before importing to iDVD.



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Maintain iPhoto album image order within iDVD slide shows
Authored by: AveryTimm on Nov 29, '08 02:21:25PM

Thanks... that has been bugging me for a long time and I sent something to Apple using the Feedback form. I told my girlfriend that I could make a quick photo CD for her if she saved all the images to a flash drive and named them so the order was what she wanted. When she came over and we dropped them in I noticed that they were not in order, there wasn't any option to sort, and clicking on the "File" column didn't do anything (except blink, implying that it would do something)...I thought I was going to have to spend hours dragging all the pictures hundred in folders into iDVD.



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