Creating DVD/VCD Photo Slide Shows for Your Mac
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Once you are done creating your slide show, click on the Make Menu button.
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5. Three slide shows and I am ready to go. |
The Make Menu section is for you to create an opening screen (main menu) for your disc. There are a couple of choices already built-in. You can choose the different settings as well as change the background image (see Figure 6).
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6. Creating the menu for the disc. |
At this time, you can preview your slide shows using the Preview button located at the top of the screen (see Figure 7). The mock remote control on the right mimics that of a real remote control of your DVD/VCD player. This is a good time to check the sequencing of your photos and go back to the previous section to make the necessary changes if needed.
 Figure 7. Previewing the slide shows. |
You can jump to different slide shows by pressing the various buttons on the remote control. Figure 8 shows Slide Show No. 3: "O'Reilly's Cambridge Office."
 Figure 8. Slide Show No. 3: Me standing outside O'Reilly's Cambridge office. |
When you are ready to burn the slide shows onto disc, click on the Burn button. You should see the window, as shown in Figure 9. There are several options to choose from -- you can either burn the slide shows directly onto a disc, or create disc images on your hard disk so that you can burn multiple copies later on. Finally, click on the Create button to burn the images onto the disc.
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9. Burning the images to disc. |
That's it! You can now send that disc to your friends and relatives showing them how great your last holiday was!
Wei-Meng Lee (Microsoft MVP) http://weimenglee.blogspot.com is a technologist and founder of Developer Learning Solutions http://www.developerlearningsolutions.com, a technology company specializing in hands-on training on the latest Microsoft technologies.
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DVD Picture Show for Mac
2004-08-20 06:29:07 davidtrpt [Reply | View]
I downloaded the trial version of DVD Picture Show for Mac, fully expecting that I would like it and that I would end up by buying the complete version. However, when I got to the BURN step, I received a message that the software did not recognize my new LaCie d2 DL DVD+/-RW (Model 300756) External Drive. Since I cannot fully use the trial software, I am reluctant to buy the complete version. In addition, the Ulead website indicates that they do not support technical questions about the trial versions. How can I tell if the complete version is compatible with my new drive? Or, better yet, how can I fully use the trial version to verify whether or not I really want to purchase it?
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iPhoto slide show
2004-07-28 17:00:53 Udo [Reply | View]
I made a slide show using iPhoto, which I believe, is the same as iDVD. The playback quality on my, admittedly aging, TV was very poor compared to a regular satellite TV picture on the same TV set, and extremely poor, when compared with a slide show I made With Photoshop, which runs on a computer.
Has anybody compared the quality of a slide show of this application against an iPhoto slide show?
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iDVD works just as well, and is free!
2004-07-28 09:57:06 strikeman [Reply | View]
Does Ulead do anything that iDVD doesn't? Certainly I have made several DVDs for my parents, with multiple slide shows per disc with menus, transitions and music to boot.
iDVD is integrated with iPhoto and iTunes as well so everything is fairly straightforward.
