Pictures 2 dvd [NOT slid show]

[aat666]

Hi there,

I've done plenty of movie editing, but never done a picture dvd before, I've looked around the net & found loads of prog's that convert the pictures into a slide-show so ya can watch them on ya dvd-player, well I'm after a program where ya can select with pic ya want to look at & it doesn't go to another pic after a few sec's like a slide-show would do. Like a prog that would have a menu with say A listed to Z OR years, then ya select the place, time or person from the list & then select on thumnails.

Thanks if anyone can help, NO SLIDE-SHOW progs, no making the files into movies, would mean pausing everytime ya wanted to look at a pic for a long time.


Anyone know of any such program ??

[Cunhambebe]

Well, I'm not 100% sure but I guess (GUESS) DVD Architect can do it. It is a Slide Show but you can stop and admire your pic as long as you want. If I'm wrong, pls let me know

[Bjs]

Close and explain's how to get around the "all play button" issue ... yes slideshow , but with alot of trick's employed .

https://forum.videohelp.com/viewtopic.php?t=296748

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As for what you actually want ... your dvd must support folder navigation .

Install dvdslideshowgui ... and remove the mplayer from it's folder (prevent's mpeg generation)
When it complain's , go to it's installed folder and copy all the picture's to another folder ... then close app .

You repeat this step ... it's just a quick method to resizing clip's without distortion of aspect ratio's .

Let's say you have familly photo's , then project would look like :

Main menu jpeg + family (folder)

Family folder contain's sub folder's ... you decide what folder's to include ... this is just an example .

Dad
Mum
Bro (by name / may have more than one)
Sis (by name / may have more than one)

Each of these folder's have a main menu jpeg ... listing sub folder's and what content is within each .
May need a few menu jpeg's ... to cover aniversary's , birthday's ... ect .

Create a folder under each main folder to store these picture's .

I would include consecutive number's in front of each picture's name ... so they keep order when shown in dvd navigation on tv screen .

This approach dose mean going back and forth through folder's using the dvd remote , but also allow's an anormous amount of clip's to be stored to dvd-r ... 4,200+ if each is 1 megabyte ... 8000+ if half mb each .