import subtitles for slide show

I have two slide shows, each with 50 slides. I would like to generate a text
file with the subtitle definitions and import it, but apparently subtitles can
only be imported for timelines. Why is that?

I have the names of the slides (the texts that should be displayed as subtitles)
in an excel file and generated a text file out of it that has exactly the format
needed for importing subtitles.

It would be rather time consuming to manually copy the names of the 100 slides
out of the Excel sheet and insert them as a description for each slide.

Are there any technical reasons why importing subtitles for slide shows is not
allowed?

Regards,

Yes, because slideshows are not editable in the same way as timelines (there is
no editable subtitle track), and slideshows have their own fixed implementation
for subtitles based on filenames of images, and optionally, their description
property.

Hallo,

thanks for the response.

The image filename can be something like "xa333jy.tif". It is obvious
that I cannot use that as a subtitle. I have another column in my Excel sheet
with the "real name" of the image (the images are photographies of
paintings), and I need that as a subtitle.

And I cannot rename the image files, because they are used by different
departments of our office.

But I understand that what I wanted to achieve is not possible without manual
work.

Regards,

You could make the slideshow in a timeline instead.

Hallo,

thanks again for the reply. In one case I really could do it, you are right
there.

But there are slide shows, too, which do not proceed automatically but wait for
the user to press the previous/next chapter buttons on the remote control. To
realize the same behaviour in a timeline one had to set the end action for a
chapter to "return to beginning of chapter". That works, kind of, but
I found out that both with software DVD players on a computer and with regular
DVD players the navigation (forward/backward) is very...irregular. Sometimes
when you press the next chapter button it works, and sometimes not.

That's why I wanted to stick with the slide show instead of a timeline.

Regards,