I'm just about to create a DVD with thousands of pictures in a giant slideshow, devided into several chapters.
My question is: will the slideshow "behave" just like a movie when playing it at my DVD, i.e. if I want to step back one picture do I have to press rewind on the remote control? Do you see what I mean? Or is there any way to have "prev" and "next" buttons in the lower left or right corner to manually step back andf forward in the slideshow?
Beginner with slideshow problems
Moderator: Ken Berry
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Trevor Andrew
Hi
Within the project your slide show consists of individual images.
Once you create a video file the individual images are combined into one file.
This file will play from the beginning to the end with no pauses, You cannot navigate whilst the movie is playing other than say fast forward/back/frame by frame etc. But you cannot skip directly to the next image.
When you burn a dvd from this file you will get one main menu for each video. For each main menu you can set chapter marks. This creates a sub menu allowing you to navigate the menu.
If you have several subjects within your slide show, you could make individual movies for each subject.
When you burn the dvd you will get a main menu for each movie.
Hope This Helps
Trevor
Within the project your slide show consists of individual images.
Once you create a video file the individual images are combined into one file.
This file will play from the beginning to the end with no pauses, You cannot navigate whilst the movie is playing other than say fast forward/back/frame by frame etc. But you cannot skip directly to the next image.
When you burn a dvd from this file you will get one main menu for each video. For each main menu you can set chapter marks. This creates a sub menu allowing you to navigate the menu.
If you have several subjects within your slide show, you could make individual movies for each subject.
When you burn the dvd you will get a main menu for each movie.
Hope This Helps
Trevor
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Kilmister
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jchunter
Kilmister,
In addition to Trevor's good advice, I would strongly recommend that you start by creating a slide show with a small number (5 - 10) of slides and carry that completely through the whole process (to R/W DVD) to make sure that everything works right.
I have never had problems with still images but some forum member have had chronic problems that, AFAIK, were never solved. My formula is to create a new Mpeg2 project with DVD-compliant properties: 720x480 pixels, variable video bitrate 8000Kbps, field order: Frame-Based (slides only) or. if video clips are mixed in, match the field order of the video, aspect ratio 4:3. Set Resampling Preferences to "Keep Aspect Ratio" and Max quality. I drop the jpegs into the Edit timeline at full resolution, (2048x1536). Then, as Trevor said, Create Video File of the whole project with the exact same property settings and then set up DVD menus just prior to the burn.
In addition to Trevor's good advice, I would strongly recommend that you start by creating a slide show with a small number (5 - 10) of slides and carry that completely through the whole process (to R/W DVD) to make sure that everything works right.
I have never had problems with still images but some forum member have had chronic problems that, AFAIK, were never solved. My formula is to create a new Mpeg2 project with DVD-compliant properties: 720x480 pixels, variable video bitrate 8000Kbps, field order: Frame-Based (slides only) or. if video clips are mixed in, match the field order of the video, aspect ratio 4:3. Set Resampling Preferences to "Keep Aspect Ratio" and Max quality. I drop the jpegs into the Edit timeline at full resolution, (2048x1536). Then, as Trevor said, Create Video File of the whole project with the exact same property settings and then set up DVD menus just prior to the burn.