transition picture album?

[iveo83]

hey
i wanted to make a video DVD album of a bunch of pictures for my cousins wedding gift of her wedding. i also want transition effects and music. i have a DVD burner so i would rather not make a VCD....since VCDs wont play on all dvd players but DVDrs will play on most..plus i figured the quality would be better if it was DVD......

what is the best program for this??? i used photo2VCD once and it worked very well but like i said i wanted to make DVD not VCD....... any help would be appreciated thx

[DVD_Ripper]

IMO Memories on TV is your best bet.

[iveo83]

actualy i used memories on TV and it worked very well photo2VCD worked like crap and i downloaded it again and relized that this is the one that sucked and it allways quites unexpectedly.....ill try memories on tv again...is there any other software thats better?? is there any thing you can do with any adobe programs that anyone knows of.....i know they have a video editing software (forget the name) but im not sure if its any good and if you can make picture DVDs with it?

[thecoalman]

If your looking for a pro app then take a look at DVD Workshop 2 it has a photo slideshow, I haven't used it but will be upgrading from DVDWS 1 soon and I'm very happy with all my ulead products. It will cost you a few bucks though.

You can do alot with it, the only thing it doesn't have is advaced editing features. If your really looking to spend some money take a look at the Quartet suite or the suite Adobe offers, you get a lot more for a few hundred more.

[JEEPn]

this is not freeware but ProShowGold is great. You can download a free trial or buy it for $70.00. here is the link.
http://www.photodex.com/products/proshowgold

I've used some of the other software that will do this but the quality was never good. I create a SVCD and a DVD and I was really impressed and it was simple to use I just drag&drop the pics, chose what transition I wanted between pics(lot to choose from) I just chose random. It told me how many minutes of slideshow I have so I picked a song(drag&drop) that was closed to the time, previewed it...look good and burned it to SVCD and HQ DVD. You can also make autorun PC CDs and alot more.

check it out.

[iveo83]

thx coalman and jeepn! ill deffinitly check out your sugestions
im guna try out proshow gold 1st

since this is a surprise i want to make sure this will play on her DVD player but i dont want to clue her into whats going on.....whats the best way of going about that?... do more dvd players support VCD then MPEG2? or the other way around??....i relize i can just try it out on my DVD player but it wont have the same effect if it doesnt work on her DVD player .......any ideas?