DVD Workshop Slideshow

[calicogirl]

I'm having some difficulty with creating slideshows in DVD Workshop. Maybe it's the set top players I've tried, or maybe I have a misunderstanding about what a slideshow can do. Here is what I'm doing. I've imported a series of images into DVDWS. Then, I simply dragged them to the Title List. I created a menu with a button that is linked to the first image in the sequence. The slideshow plays fine with no interaction, but here is my problem. I can't figure out how to allow interaction. I want a slideshow that allows the viewer to tell when to advance to the next image. None of the buttons on the remote seem to allow this. I've played it on two different DVD players with the same result. Is there a way to allow interaction to provide next and previous image navigation within a slideshow? I realize that I could put each image on a separate menu with forward and reverse buttons, but I have so many slides, that it would be a prohibitive amount of work.

Thanks, Melissa

[falberni]

Here's my understanding of how slide shows work. Firstly, you bring the first picture to the tiltle list. Then consecutively you drop the rest of the pictures on top of the first picture. Do not drop the pictures side by side on the tiltle list. As you do this, the pictures appear on the right hand side of the screen. The default play time for each picture is 3 seconds (going by memory here). You can set the play time for each picture differtently. Click on each picture on the right hand side and look on the left. You can set the play time on the left. If you want to set the same play time for all the pictures, click on the top picture, hold the shift button, click on the last picture. This will highlight all the pictures. Then set the play time for all on the left side.

Hope this helps.

[calicogirl]

Looks like that does the trick. It creates the slideshow as a single "title" with each image being a separate chapter. The viewer can use the "skip" button to skip to the next or previous chapter. Thanks for the tip. I love DVD workshop, but some of the features are not terribly intuitive

Melissa