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Re: DVD-Video w/ 14000+ Still Images

The type of project you are describing can be done several ways.

First, you cold create a menu for each slide with appropriate buttons, and
graphics. If you bring in the Menus as PICT files and not PDF's, you could
place Audio Streams on them as well. The problem you would experience is that
14, 000 is over the limit for menus in DVD SP.

The second option would be to turn all your slides into a piece of video, then
you could have them play out sequentially with subtitles, buttons over video
etc. You could divide the videos into chapoter points by placing markers on
each start point and have the buttons jump to the next/last marker.

I personally could reconsider the SLIDESHOW function if I had to do this
project. Using PhotoShop you can embed graphics in each slide to inform the
user to hit the NEXT CHAPTER/LAST CHAPTER to advance or retreat, that is the
manual way to advance slides in a slideshow, you could also set a duration for
each slide to display in case you want to automatically advance them. You could
also place audio streams on each slide, but not SUBTITLES or MENUS. You could
make multiple slideshows and put MENUS between them for advancing to another
SLIDESHOW.

I recently completed a DVD for a client that had many still images (Not quite
14,000, I feel your pain) and I used a combination of SLIDESHOWS and MENUS to
do it.

JD




Sean Oglesby wrote:

> Hello group,
> I have been perusing the archives from the list and have not seen a
> related topic so I apologize if this has already been covered :) I have a
> project looming that looks to be of the time-consuming rather than overly
> complicated variety. Namely, a kindly couple with a LIFETIME of 35mm slides
> that want to simplify their lives considerably be putting them on DVD. No
> real problem (except that scanning 14000 slides makes me want to ...you can
> imagine), in fact the authoring couldn9t be simpler from my perspective. My
> past experience in DVD has been with Sonic Solutions Creator. Let me tell
> all of the folks out there that haven9t had the pleasure of authoring a
> project on that system that we have it GOOD on DVDSP (formerly Astarte). My
> real question is this. I am familiar with placing multiple still images on
> the video track while still being able to add subtitles, menus, and the
> like. The slideshow in DVDSP, while being very easy to use does not appear
> to let me do this. Anyone have a suggestions? I would be very happy to put a
> subtitle track with a single slide9s info over a still picture that had
> selectable next/prev commands and a auto-advance of x seconds. Thanks in
> advance.
>
> BTW...I am running a G4/733 w/ 768 MB RAM and the Superdrive and haven9t
> experienced ANY weird behavior in the least. Would be happy to post some
> performance numbers if the speed debates I saw are still active.
>
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