Photo dvd for Mac?

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Anyone know a good free bit of software for creating a photo slide show that i can burn to dvd and to which i can add music as well?

Was looking at pro show gold but its not mac comaptable.
 
Can't you do it with iMovie?
 
Cant you use iPhoto - save the slideshow and burn it with iDVD - just a guess, I don't know much about Macs, but my wife has one so I might have a look when I get time
 
yup - the Mac can do all this with no additional software. Use iPhoto, or iMovie or even iDVD to create any form of slideshow complete with music, transitions etc.
 
The problem i have with moving the images into i movie to add the music and transitions etc is that it degradesthe quality of the images drastically, they go all jagged edged.

Does anyone know why or how to fix this (can it be improved?)
If not is there any other way to add multiple tracks to a slide sho (iphoto will only let you add 1 track and no different transitions)
 
I will point a mate who is a Mac expert to this thread. I have a Mac, but only for a few months and haven't really used the native applications whereas he has. I have used it mainly for music recording (Cubase, SoftSynths and recently Images/Photography etc). I will ask him to comment for you.
 
James I havent tried this with imovie (but have with DVD Studio Pro) but it might be worth re-sizing your pics before you import them into imovie (or whatever). 720x576 pixels will get the right size for PAL and should stop the software badly resizing your shots :D
 
theMusicMan said:
I will point a mate who is a Mac expert to this thread. I have a Mac, but only for a few months and haven't really used the native applications whereas he has. I have used it mainly for music recording (Cubase, SoftSynths and recently Images/Photography etc). I will ask him to comment for you.
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That'd be great, many thanks.


As for re sizing them, i've tried this to no avail- I think its just a bug/failing of putting still images in a movie editor.
 
Done... no probs. I sent an email to a good mate of mine who I am sure will be able to help you.
 
Hi, I'm a friend of theMusicMan's. Haven't had much to do with slideshows so my suggestion would be to look on Apple's site: http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/imaging_3d/ Have a browse and try different ones and see which one is best.

I agree that the output quality of iPhoto isn't suited for professional high end slideshows. If you find one suitable then please share :)
 
Hi!
thanks for the reply.
I don't think its the quality of Iphoto thats bad , as when you watch the Iphoto slide show the image quality is fine- It just seems to get screwed up when its moved into i movie.

I'll do some digging on the mac site and see what i can come up with.

Cheers
 
I made a movie with iMovie using photos i had in iPhoto. Worked perfectly. No jaggies. Dropped the high res images into the movie, added tunes, exported to iDVD and away I went. Just so you know, it does work as its meant to using hi-res images.
 
so what did yo do differntly to me then? i'm using hi res jpegs. dropped into i photo, thn bang0- jaggies everywhere.
 
Not sure. I didn't do anything other than drag n drop. Did you set the resolution of the movie right?
 
maybe its the way the images are transfered into i movie?
did you drag and drop them or 'import' them?


edit: sorry you bet me to it.

How do i set the resolution of the movie?
 
Its when you create a movie, the first choice you get I think. Or maybe with iMovie 08 its when you export it. I haven't used it much. Should be a guide somewhere.
 
I doesn't give me that option anytwhere. I'm not on ilife 08 though. My i movie is a bit older, maybe thats why.

:shrug:
 
Ok when using iMovie HD, from iLife 05 (??) as in the last one, when I goto a new project it has an option for video format. I pick DV Widescreen because I have a widescreen TV. Should be ok with that option.
 
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