Can TMPGEnc Plus/DVDA do slideshow?

[chakrax]

I just burned my first home movie DVD a week ago (thanks to all the great information at this site!!) with trial versions of TMPGenc Plus and TMPGDVD Author. I was going to buy this combo, until I investigated slideshows. I have not been able to find an easy way of doing that with those two tools! I understand you can produce a slideshow AVI with Windows Movie Maker and encode it, but that seems convoluted to me. I mean, VCDEasy does what I want, except for good menu navigation! I'm tried to make MPEGs out of JPEGs with TMPGenc, and author them with DVDA, but they just flash past on the screen.

I'd prefer to have true MPEG stills with background music (I don't care about transitions). Is it not possible to make a slideshow like that with the TMPG suite? Am I missing something? I did search this site and forums, and did not find a way without going to AVI.

If this is true, I might go with DVDLab + TMPG Source creator. I really liked how DVDLab handles slideshows and menus.

Thanks for your help....

-Chakra.

[GbMedusa]

TMPGEnc DVD Author does not do image slideshows. You could kludge one out of it by creating multiple menus with each image as a background.

TMPGEnc is an encoder. It does not author. Although, you can use it to enclode the images as an video file, even adding audio if you wish. But you would still have to author it.

[chakrax]

GBMedusa,

Thanks for your reply. I'm a little disappointed that TMPGEnc DVD Author is not capable of slideshows, I would have thought that slideshows are basic functionality that would be in any authoring tool. Oh well.

But - I think I've found a slideshow authoring tool that I like - Sonic MyDVD, that came bundled with my DVD writer. The process is easy, and it appears to do MPEG stills like I want. The only drawback I find is that the audio is PCM, and eats up space.

I tried to be smart and reverse engineer the volume that MyDVD created with TMPGEnc DVD Author, and see if I could switch the PCM into MP2, but that attempt failed miserably.

I can always hope that the folks at Pegasys will add Slideshows to DVDA, and make do with Sonic MyDVD in the meantime!