DVD photo slideshow with videos

[morron]

I need to make a photo video slideshow, i mean, i want to start with a video and then a photo slideshow and finish with other video again, but choosing this from a menu, i want them all continuos. I tried with Ulead, but i think that separates the videos and photos.
Is it possible to make one slideshow with different background music??

[bottle-necked]

I just finished a project like that a few days ago and I made it in Ulead VideoStudio V6. It had over 100 photos, 3 captured clips of recorded video from my camera, camera audio, recorded audio from the PA system, and music from different sources mixed, sync, and edited. Many transition effects, titles, cuts from video to photos then back to video while the mixed audio remained constant. Then output that to a standard AVI video file, encoded it to MPEG2, then authored to DVD.

All you ask is possible to do, but it's going to take some reading and effort on your part to learn the programs and the techniques. There are many such programs for this but I recommend Ulead VideoStudio Version 6 if you can find it. It's easy to learn and use. Adobe Premiere is another such program, but it's more $$$.

Good luck.

[TerryG]

If I understand you correctly you want to intermix photos and video in the same slideshow. Ulead PictureShow2 can’t do this; it will only let you to put a separate video and still slideshow on the same DVD.

The latest slideshow program that can include video is ProShow Gold 2. (photodex.com $70) It’s going through some growing pains, but you can try the download.

A program the works well is MemoriesOnTV.com ($50) It will do pan and zoom like Proshow Gold and can turn your slides and videos into a DVD for 16x9 TVs. You can demo it.

If you choose a video editing program the Ulead’s new VideoStudio 8 ($100) will let you add slides and can do pan and zoom on your stills. It will also auto generate background music. It has 3 sound tracks, so working with sound is much easier than with MemoriesOnTV. You can demo it.

I would recommend on of the above. Ulead is also about ready to release PictureShow3 which will be around $50 and probably do what ProShow Gold and MemoriesOnTV will do.

I would not recommend Pinnacle Studio Version 9. It does not like MOV movies or 15 fps Canon avi video. It also does not easily do pan and scan on still images. No demo.