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When I preview or play a slideshow in Lightroom 5 I see a black screen. I've tried it using various settings, images, lengths, and with the show saved or unsaved, all with the same result. In a preview I can see the show advancing through the slides; all remain black.
Sometimes (unpredictably) the screen isn't black, but rather two colors or color washes separated diagonally.
There are no videos in the shows. (A black screen for a slideshow with a video as the first slide is a known issue mentioned in the Lightroom Journal.)
Exporting to pdf works properly. An exported video shows as a black screen.
(Mac Pro, OS X 10.7.5, Radeon X1900 XT video card)
Hi
I had the slideshow black screen too. I fixed it by checking (when slideshow is open) Template Browser on
left of screen and selecting "Default +" click on it, it does not highlight so maybe I unchecked it somehow.
Prior to that I cleaned the computer fans so the video card would run cool.
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Ok I just figured what my problem is. When I had my output "high", blank screen happened.
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Thanks MikeB
So .. the problem is actually that Windows 10 and Intel HD3000 graphics on a sandy bridge processor, do not mix?
So anyone who has a combination of Windows 10 + Intel HD3000 integrated graphics + Lightroom will have some problems with some of Lightroom's features?
If we can work that out, why can't Adobe?
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Author reported about this issue in the year 2013, with Lightroom v.5.x.x
Today is year 2020, Lightroom v9.2.1
THIS ISSUE IS STILL THERE!
Nice job Adobe "👍"
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April 2020, Lightroom Classic 10.2. Still a problem. I can get Preview to work, but not Play.
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Actually, I just found a solution. I'll post to the main thread.
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April 2021 with Lightroom Classic 10.2, I still have this problem. None of the suggestions in this thread have helped to get the slideshow to Play, though Preview did start working. However in this thread on photoshop.com I found an idea that has now worked for me: purge the Video Cache and restart Lightroom. It is the first thing that has worked at all for me.
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Any solution this issue is driving nuts...