Stills on DVD (not slideshow/montage)

[themichael]

Do any of the authoring programs do real stills? Not slideshow/montage, but actual stills.

I would like to create a DVD that would have a catalog section. Something similar to a photo web site. Thumbnail menus or step through manually.
Something like what you can do with VCDs.

I have seen mention of using menus as the stills as a work around.

Computers can't play VCD "photo" CDs without DVD player software and there are some DVD players out there that won't play CD/CD-Rs of any format.

Mike

[Vejita-sama]

Sure, the question is what do you think is the difference between a still and slideshow? It's really just all in how you author it.

However, for what you described you might actually want to create a series of menus. Each with a subpicture of selectable buttons/hot keys. You can do this with DVD menu studio, and I believe DVD Lab also has this build in.

Basically you could do this with photoshop, but DVD Menu Studio just makes it easier to generate the subpictures.

[themichael]

The term slideshow covers alot, which is why I added montage. Most of the authoring programs create a MPEG stream of the pictures, not stills.

I was trying to find a way around the menu thing.

Looks like I'll drag out Photoshop (or GIMP) and start batch processing my pics.

This is going to get messy....


Mike