DVD slideshow creation?

[trossin]

Anybody know how DVD slideshows are made? Are they MPEG2 movies with a chapter point betwwen each picture or are they made with lots of menus like VCDs were made? When there are transistion effects, I figure that the slideshows are movies.

I started playing with dvdauthor 0.6.8 (http://dvdauthor.sourceforge.net/) and am able to make menus for movies but I want to create nested menus of slide shows. I purchased Ulead MovieFactory but it is not as flexible as I would like (no nested menus, limited number of buttons per screen ...) so I'm going to the dark side and using command line tools!

[muskgrave]

It really depends on the program you are using. Some a seperate chapter for each image with the timing information in the ifo i suppose? I found this out when i made one using sonic mydvd to create a slideshow and then tried to author it using TDA...the pictures flew through but the sound was normal.

MY preferred method is to use a program that creates a standard dvd-compliant mpeg2 file. For this you can use Photodex ProShow Gold. It is a small but powerful application for making good looking slideshows.

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