DVD slideshow of stills (Not a video compilatation of pics)

[joe-mamma]

Man it's been awile, I haven't been here since june of 2002 and things have changed. Getting to the point, I finally joined the 21st century and picked up a DVD burner and I want to make a slideshow. I have a TON of jpg's and I want to make a slideshow similar to the one you could do with nero where each pic is its own file, no putting them into one big video file. I just want the image duration to be infinite and also have a menu (ie Ceremony Black & White, Ceremony Sepia, etc..). Is this possible? I've been scanning the site and have'nt quite found an answer to this. All of the stuff I've found is on how to make it into VCD2.0 compliant video and then just add the video to a DVD-VCD. I know that the structure of a DVD is different from a VCD but does it still support image stills?

Any info would be greatly appreciated, I may have been away for awhile but back in the old vcdhelp.com days I remembered everyone being very helpful.
TIA
James

[mazinz]

one possible solution is the long and tedious time of using an app like dvd maestro, because in that their are no menu limitation (some apps limit how many menus you can have) and if you take each pic and make it as a menu screen, you can then have it do what you want, and have each as a true still with infinite time. You can assign invisible buttons to either have it use the prev/next buttons or something else if you want, etc

so it can be done but man is it timely (im working on one now and it is taking forever)

[Mayer]

I have been playing around with DV LAb to make slideshow presentations specifically for DVD burning, the process is not to bad, originally I used Premier Pro to do this but came up against loads of tedios problems on playback.

So far I have managed to import over 300 jpeg's into DVD Lab and separated them (or grouped them) with a simple front end menu, the playback on TV is great.

One key issue though, you need to batch convert and resize the jpegs to bmp's to 720*534 to ensure that they firton the TV otherwise the size will be all wrong.

[mazinz]

but by resizing them to that, (i know ulead asks that) does that not still make you loose some pic due to tv overscan? Your best bet might be to get a blank template in whatever photo app, make it 720x480 and perhaps with a black background color, then taking your pics and resizing them smaller enough to fit in the 720x480 and by doing so you will not loose anything due to overscan. i know many of the dvd slideshow software programs will do this for you, usually under the name of "fit to safe area"