I need to make a simple slideshow DVD

[jeffzilla]

I made a very nice slideshow using ProShow Gold, but the client was not happy....

What he wants:
Each image on the screen until he presses next chapter on his remote (I think he wants to talk about the picture then advance to the next one when he is done).
No music, dissolves or effects between images, no menu system.

Just a simple slide show he says, but I can't find any software to do what he wants, does anyone know how I can do this????

Thanks,
Jeff

[whatsmyname]

How many images are on that slideshow?

I think in that case, you have to treat each images as a separate track/chapter and that means 99-tracks (photos) max according to DVD-spec.

Have your Proshow slideshow on a single mpeg2-dvd file. Then with a software like Encore, mark your chapter points and re-Author from there. I use Encore, that is the only Authoring software I can suggest, there are other good, (free) solutions that'll do the job too, so I'll leave that for someone else to suggest.

[lordsmurf]

I'm sorry, but your client is an idiot.

What he wants to do is not allowable within the DVD spec. He's been using Powerpoint too much.

Most you can do is author a DVD with 99 menus, and give the illusion of this effect, but I have a feeling he has many more images, right?

[Des]

I have to agree with the Blue Lord on this.

I make a lot a of slide shows of all types and purposes for people and the only way to effectively acheive what you are decribing is with either Power Point or Pro Show Producer which will basically make it's own version of a Power Point presentation. But then it would have to play on a PC and will not play via a DVD player.

The menu method is a way to 'fake' a controlled slide show of 99 or less images on a DVD player and it's a bit of a pain in the butt.

Hope you are charging well for this.

Good Luck.

--dES

[tin2tin]

DVD slideshow GUI in combination with Gui for dvdauthor can do that. Just export from DVD slideshow GUI to .gfd format and open that file in GUI for dvdauthor. Then DSG will automatically have created a dvd structure with one slide pr. menu and with buttons to go back and forth between them. I think it should be possible to export around 8000 images that way(if you got the RAM to render the video too).

A videoslideshow and chapeter menus are also added to the dvd, but you can just delete those things before authoring the disk.
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And it's that easy that you can tell your client can do it himself.

[Alex_ander]

DVDLab Pro since 2.0 has a suitable option for doing this, but each picture should be added manually, that's the only problem with numerous pictures. That's 'Audio only title' option where you can add a picture for each chapter. Unlike with any slideshow with transitions, pictures are encoded here as MPEG stills (single GOP per chapter - shown for chapter audio length, single I-frame stored per GOP). Audio track may be a silent ac3 or mp2 with low bitrate and chapters (like 99 chapters per title, 99 titles per VTS) can be made short enough to save room for more pictures. To prevent changing pictures without user action, each cell can be looped (you can add cell commands like 'link top cell' in DVDRemake, if not internally in DLP VM command editor).