Hello
Im using AVS Video Editor 6.5
First of all, I want to say that I've read the other thread regarding the transition issues, so I realize that a transition is a portion of the video were 2 videos overlay for a certain amount of the time, thus the overall duration get reduced.
I was going to make a photo slideshow made of 248 images, and a music 503 seconds long,and I come across this annoying problem.
So I made some tests.
I set duration for each image of 2 seconds.
So I made a project of 5 images each on of em lasting 2 seconds, the video was 10,000 seconds length, that's because there was still no transition effect.
So I applied a transition effect lasting 0,5 seconds, now the video's length was 8 seconds, so there was a loss of 20% of the total duration.
I made some calcs to determinate how much does a certain 0,5 seconds long transition impact with the duration of the video.
Image's length is always set to 2 seconds and transition its always set to 0,5 seconds
Images Used:5
Video Duration(Without Transition):10 seconds
Video Duration(With Transition):8 seconds
Time loss for each image:0,400 seconds
Images Used:8
Video Duration(Without Transition):16 seconds
Video Duration(With Transition):12,5 seconds
Time loss for each image:0,438 seconds
Images Used:16
Video Duration(Without Transition):32 seconds
Video Duration(With Transition):24,5 seconds
Time loss for each image:0,469 seconds
Images Used:32
Video Duration(Without Transition):64 seconds
Video Duration(With Transition):48,5 seconds
Time loss for each image:0,484 seconds
Conclusion:
Its impossible to determinate the exact length for each image to make a slideshow of 248 photos matching a 503 seconds long video, and there's apparently no feature letting you adjust a slideshow's duration based on the audio's length, that's it, the simplest thing one would image to do with a video editor, and it can't even be done right, and do you even want people to spend money on this product?