Slideshows

Slideshows for One Person or Family
Slideshows for Groups of People

The Slideshow Project Window

Playing a Slideshow Project

Saving a Slideshow Project

Editing a Slideshow Project

Opening an Existing Slideshow Project

Making a Movie from a Slideshow Project


Slideshow Settings

Thumbnails Window
Multimedia Sidebar

Reunion will create on-screen slideshows of the images linked to people and families. Slideshows can include the images linked to just one person or family; or, you can create longer slideshows that include images for many people and families.

Playing Slideshows for One Person or Family

To play a slideshow for one person or family...

To stop a slideshow, click the mouse or press the Escape key. A slideshow will play as a continuous loop until you stop it.

Playing a slideshow for just one person, couple, or family does not create or save any file on disk. Anytime you want to play the slideshow, just navigate to the person/family, show the Multimedia sidebar, and click the Slideshow button in the bottom bar.

Longer slideshows — encompassing many individuals and families — can be created, edited, named, saved, and recalled later. These are initiated in the Thumbnails window.

Playing a Slideshow From the Media Window

If the Media window is open, slideshows can be played for all items in the Media window. The Slideshow button appears in the lower-left corner and begins playing immediately.

Playing Slideshows for Groups of People

Use the Thumbnails window to play or create slideshows for everybody, marked people, unmarked people, relatives of somebody, people born in a certain month, people with certain names, or people whose pictures have an associated media field containing a specified text string (Description, File Name, or Comments).

Learn more about the Thumbnails window.

The Slideshow Project Window

When clicking the Share button in the Thumbnails window and selecting Create Slideshow Project File, Reunion will build a slideshow and open the Slideshow Project window. This window contains a list with two columns...

  1. Name: The name of the person/family to which each image is linked.
  2. Description: The image description.

The Slideshow Project window also shows the number of items in the slideshow and the duration of the slideshow.

Note that items in the list are color coded by sex (images linked to males, females, or families) if the list color mode is set to "Color lists by sex."

Settings for the slideshow are described here.

Playing a Slideshow Using the Slideshow Project File

Saving a Slideshow Project

Once you've created and edited a slideshow to your liking, choose File > Save to save the slideshow project file to disk. Slideshow project files are independent from the family files from which they were created. You can open a slideshow project file without opening a family file. And you can create as many slideshow project files as you wish from a single family file.

Slideshow project files don't contain any images. Rather, they "point" to the image files on your disk, wherever they are. If you create and save a slideshow project, and later, reopen that slideshow project, it will play exactly as it did when it was first saved. However, if you delete image files to which the slideshow project was linked (or if you try to run the slideshow on a different Mac where the images don't exist), a warning dialog will appear, letting you know that missing images will be skipped. If you have exactly the same collection of image files in the same locations on two different Macintoshes, the slideshow will play on both Macs.

Editing a Slideshow Project

Opening an Existing Slideshow Project

Saved slideshow projects can be opened in several ways:

Making a Movie from a Slideshow

Once you've created and edited a slideshow project to your liking, you can export or save a standalone movie file of the slideshow. You can send the movie file to others or upload it to your web site, YouTube, Vimeo, or any other video sharing site. (The movie file does not include a music track.)

To export a movie...

  1. Create or open an existing slideshow.
  2. Click the Share button in the Slideshow window.

The Save Movie window will appear, where you can choose the quality setting for the movie.

The Settings menu provides four popular resolutions for movie files, including both standard and high definition (HD) output.