philz Loc: Rockaway Township NJ

Set up a slideshow on my notebook with text slides introducing and end and when hit play or preview only the text slides show up. All the images are black screen although the stroke around them does show - sometimes.

But the same LR CC slideshow module works fine on my desktop. What I see on the desktop that I do not see on my notebook is a set of previews being created after hitting preview or play.

Now I used Elements 10 to create the same slideshow on my notebook and it works fine, albeit without the improved features of LR CC that I want to use. Any ideas as I have just spent three hours on the phone with Adobe trying to find a solution, including uninstalling LR CC and re-installing it, with no joy? Help, as I want to use it for a presentation on Monday!!

dpullum Loc: Tampa Florida

There are times when Swiss Army Knives are not the best at every thing, where as Johnny One Note programs do an excellent job. Rumored that LR will in the future do word processing, spreadsheets and MIDI music composing... hummm tell me it ain't so Joe.

Ashampoo has an excellent Slideshow program for a reasonable price. Definitely there are advantages to such. I tried many on trial basis and found this to be best among the lot. True that was 3 years ago, but it does all and burns in multi formats and quality/file sizes. The price for HD3 is $30 and below ... Ashampoo has many sales, I think that HD2 is free. HD2 is quite sufficient.

Tutorial:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMG9cIkkv_8

blackest Loc: Ireland

Is it a slide show or is it a presentation? You can use powerpoint, keynote, google slides , or libre office impress. These all let you scale and arrange images use text layers animations and transitions audio tracks even embed video some of them. They vary in what they offer and google slides and impress are free. The latest version of office and keynote have the option to export as a movie built in. earlier versions of office used third party software Sometimes that is useful

The other day i was asked to put 6 power points on a display unfortunately 2 were movie files and 4 others were power points with differing versions and aspect ratios in the end i made all of them movies and then mastered them as 1 movie file in imovie.

If you want to move at a varying speed you may prefer to manually advance this would be best as a powerpoint display if you are using a projector you can display the slide on a projector and have slide notes on your laptop display.

It is a different problem to setting up a slide show on a web site

dpullum Loc: Tampa Florida

The fog of modern life indeed. Working with Quatro or Excel was easer when it was not made easy for beginners. When programs take over we are in the time of "I Robot" dilemma.

1. A program may not injure a human user or, through inaction, allow provided data to come to harm.
2. A program must obey the orders given it by human beings using it and must not automate to confuse, officiate, or distort information presented.
3. Except where such orders 1 & 2 would conflict with the Hidden Law of the God Like programmer who was paid by Adobe or Microsoft when he satisfies the automation promised by the sales department.

In early programs we had to chose so many parameters that it was an easy thing once it was learned - - We were in charge. Now it is a continued fight to overcome the "what you really want is" automation built into programs by programmer children who have never worked with experimental data.

I feel for you and your complex dilemma of presenting a Hodge-podge of formats when requested by those who have no clue how much work their simple request entails.

In the 90's Corel Quatro-pro would plot highly complex sets of data... such as log log graphs or semi log.... Excel people at that time had no clue. Now simple xy plots are grabbed by Excel and given a meaningless bizarre plot when simplicity was desired.

SO: KISS, keeping it simple, works well. Presentations of JPEG photos is well done by a slide show program designed for a Johnny-One-Note dance. Certainly they can be done in other multi task programs but !!! .... and in your case a mastery of manipulation is a necessary skill ... Kudos for your ability of mixed info skills needed to complete the assigned task.

philz Loc: Rockaway Township NJ

Thanks for the responses. My conclusion is that the Graphics Processor on my now six years old notebook is not compatible with the slideshow module in Lightroom CC. It is with the other programs I can use so I am disappointed but not helpless. Time for a new notebook, I know.

Searcher Loc: Kent, England

If you actually have a GPU on your notebook, turn it off in LR preferences > Performance

Even if you don't have a separate GPU, still turn it off in LR.

philz Loc: Rockaway Township NJ

Already disabled. Has been from the first download of LR CC.