VCD Slideshow Help Question

[abcrich]

I was trying to follow a HOW TO article "How to make a VCD,XVCD,SVCD slideshow with a MAC" in the VCD HELP section of this site & was not able to create a Slide Show on a CD. The article gives the following instructions;

There are two main methods to make a quality slideshow you can watch on your DVD player with a Mac.
The first method is to get Query VCDMaker Professional. As this software is almost impossible to find, I
suggest the second method as follows :

STEP 1. Put your pics in a folder, open GraphicConverter 4.0, select the File>Convert menu,
select on the left the source folder and on the right the destination folder, select Batch, as 'Dest format'
select Quicktime / Moov, then Options and Compressor : None, then click on the BATCH button, select the
function "Bring to Size" and select 768x576, center/center, color=black. You can also add a
'Sharpen Edges' if your source pictures need to be sharpened. Then click on CONVERT and you will
quickly
convert all of your pics into hi-res quicktime movies.

STEP 2. Drop all of the .MOOV obtained in step 1 directly on Toast 5 VCD mode window, it will encode
and burn. Play the result on your DVD player.

I was following the second suggestion & was able to create the .MOOVs as directed in STEP 1 but when I dropped them on the Toast 5 VCD widow, I get a message that "The .MOOV cannot be used to create a Video CD because it does not contain audio data or the audio data cannot be exported."

I gather after reading several other posts in this forum that there may not be a reasonable way to create a slideshow on a CD using a MAC. Is that true? If not I would appreciate any suggestions on how to proceed.

[major]

The short method worked with previous versions of Toast Titanium. The newer plugin checks for audio before adding a video file. So you should either follow the longer method in the HowTo (in order to create a SVCD) or create compliant hi-res MPG stills with MissingMPGTools & author the stills-VCD with VCDImager (some detail here). Unfortunately, there is still no software to automate the process so you can just drag four hundred pictures and obtain a VCD disk image.