Macworld meeting place visitor , Jay , in reply to my late entry on how to tot up claim to iDVD slideshows writes :
My guessing is that Apple ’s iLife designers would say that you ’re enquire a deal from a $ 79 multimedia system suite . I think it would be a grand estimate to have iPhoto and iDVD add a subtitle track to your slideshows that turn back this kind of intimate data , but I doubt it ’s gamy on Apple ’s list of features to include in the next major rescript of the suite .
But in the hope that my response will convey a substance more helpful than “ problematic luck , buddy ” I can offer a solution that those who are really , reallyinclined to add this track can take reward of . That is to make a QuickTime movie of the slideshow as outlined in the earlier tip and then tot a text course to it .
Take a gander at Apple ’s helper in esteem to adding QuickTime schoolbook tracks and you ’ll ascertain the mental process is anything but nonrational . It can be done , but it ’s done ugly . To make the chore a number leisurely I suggest that you seize a copy ofFeelorium ’s $ 23 Textation . This is a utility that lets you more easily add up textbook to a QuickTime moving-picture show and , more importantly , metre on the button when that text will look .
Before you get your hopes up , let me say that even with Textation this is a tedious process . You must enter the school text you want for each caption — the program is n’t capable of parsing a text file so that each entry in the schoolbook file seem as a separate caption .
If this is the kind of thing you intend to do routinely , it might be deserving your while to invest in Apple ’s DVD Studio Pro , a professional app that handles subtitles much more elegantly .
