Burn pictures and videos to dvd, but pics must be a cert way

[Greg12]

I want to make a dvd where u can play videos normally but the pictures in the form of a slideshow where u have to advance each pic manually instead of playing as a movie.


Any progs that can do this?

[Craig Tucker]

I have never done it but you could do this in DVD workshop. Have a front menu with the first button for the video and the second button could take you to another menu page which has your first picture and a next and back button. The next button would take you to another menu page with your next picture and so on and so on. You could also branch off into different picture categories all using menu pages. I do not know however if there is a limit to the number of menu pages you can have.

[NightWing]

A almost answer but could do two track. One a "move" of the slides with music then a "Still" you can step forward and back.

The "Menu idea" sound intersting to try. Wonder if its limited to 99 like chapters?

[mkelley]

Greg,

There are *many* programs which specialize in doing exactly this. I use Ulead's Picture Show 2 -- there is a free demo on their site that will tell you all you need to know (although it's only limited to three or four slideshows).

I just got through putting thousands of images (most of my good digital photography for a year) onto one DVD: really really cool that it's all on one disk.

[Craig Tucker]

Does picture show accept videos though, which is something that greg wants

[mkelley]

Yep, it sure does.

For a canned package where your primary purpose is to have slide shows, almost nothing beats it.

[Vejita-sama]

Yeah pretty much any authoring program should be able to do this. However, some will require you to convert your pictures to MPEG stills prior to importing them or make you author everything as a large menu.

As an aside, I've seen some DVDs that are all menus that are pretty sweet. The one that I really liked was a 'learn japanese' DVD that had each lesson as a seperate motion menu. You could click to turn on/off English or Japanese subtitles, switch audio tracks, or skip chapters. Basically an interactive DVD.