how to create movie and pics presentation?

[dvas]

Until now, I was using TMPGEnc to encode my miniDV home movies and then TMPGEnc DVD Author to burn them with menus.

I want now to put on 1 DVD a movie and some pictures. The idea was to have an option via menu to watch the movie, or to see the pics. I remember once seeing this on one commercial DVD. While browsing the pics, there was a message on the DVD player 'STILL'.

Any one any idea which software to use (that is failry simple) to make this happen?

thanks,
Sasha

[guns1inger]

There are many options. Some software will do slideshows for you, with or without music, others will simply allow you to string menus together for the user to navigate.

DVD Lab has a slideshow function or you can build menu based slideshows
Tmpgenc DVD author would allow menu based slideshows

How much time do you want to invest in learning the craft ?

[dvas]

hi,

well, I have aprox 35 minutes of movie and more then 100 pictures. What do you mean by menu slideshow in TMPG? Did you mean that each menu will be for 1 pic?
I am ready to learn, since this is important for me.
Can I do it with DVD X as well?

Sasha

[dvas]

I just tried DVD X Maker 2 and it has added the pics, but converted them to a movie... So I can not just browse them manually.....

Any idea about other apps?

Sasha

[Bjs]

A guide for this will be online in the next few days for you to follow , this one is easy as pie using dvdauthor gui (general authoring) , the gimp (menu backgrounds) , pgcedit (dvd command editing) , besweet (audio to ac3 if needed)

That pics process is the annoying one , takes time , will look at batch mode for that thing ...

[Cornucopia]

Most of those consumer-based "slideshow" DVD apps don't really do true stills, they basically convert them to a single movie file.
If that isn't what you want, you have to find a DVD authoring app that correctly works with stills. These are usually the higher-end apps. Look for codewords like "stillshow" or "user-advanceable" or "1 VOBU".

Scott