CD slide show for DVD

[David Thrasher]

If you have the instructions for making a Super Video CD from Mac Addict, I may have a solution for you: 

First of all, make a movie of your stills by importing them into iMovie and drop them onto the timeline in the order you wish them to be. (If you have iMovie 3 and you get that Ken Burns effect, you may have to ask the other listers how to get rid of it if you don't want it.) If you want them to be shorter that the 5 seconds they're given by default in iMovie you may need to split clips and discard the unwanted portions. Export the movie as a full quality Quicktime movie.

Next use MissingMpegTools as per Mac Addict's instructions to create your Mpeg-II file(s). 

When you get to the step where you are using MissingMenuGen (I think I have the name right) you'll notice that you can set what clip comes next when the one that is playing times out. I would think that you could set it as a continuous loop. Without going into all the steps, that looks like it could be your solution.

-Dave

Original message
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Date: Mon, 07 Jul 2003 08:19:09 -0500
Subject: [MacDV] CD slide show for DVD
From: "R. A. Cantrell" 
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Listers,
            I have a small project in mind. I don't know exactly how to do
it or if software has already been written to  do it, (or if it can be
done.)

I want to burn a cd that  will play in my DVD player. I want to have that
cd
do  this. Automatically open and  run a continuous loop slide show of
images
on  the  television. I think I  could do all this  so that it would run 
on
a  computer (where  I  have  the capability of clicking to open  and 
start
the  slide show) but  I  don't know quite what to  do  about getting it 
to
run this little  set of tricks automatically.
-- 
All the best,
R.A. Cantrell