[MacDV] Re: Creating Slide Shows

[James Asherman]

On Saturday, January 3, 2004, at 04:09  PM, Don Richter wrote:

> On 1/2/04 8:40 PM, "Joyce Ranieri" <jranieri at twcny.rr.com> wrote:
>
>> I'm taking some home video of last summer's vacation and making it 
>> into
>> a dvd. I want to add my digital pictures as a slide show. As I see it,
>> there are several options:
>>     1) creating the slide show in iPhoto and exporting it as a
>> Quicktime Movie, and then putting it in iDvd
>>     2) creating the slide show in iMovie and then putting it in iDvd
>>     3) creating the slide show in iDvd
>>
>
> Hi Joyce,
>
> I prefer using iMovie to create slide shows and using iDVD to burn the 
> DVD.
> One gets the most control with iMovie:
>
> A) Control how long each individual picture appears in the slide show,
> B) Insert transitions between slides,
> C) Control the musical track from iTunes (length, timing, etc.),
> D) Add separate narration track, if desired.
>
> It takes a while longer to set all this up, but the results are worth 
> it. I
> burned several DVDs because friends asked to borrow it to show to other
> people. When did that ever happen with a vacation slide show? (Okay 
> the fact
> that the locale was Paris in Spring probably has a lot to do with it 
> too,
> but I recommend iMovie.)
>
> Regards,
> Don Richter
>

That's the way and you can put captions in too.
J