Importing stills for slideshow

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Importing stills for slideshow

I have read the help files in the manual but am still unclear on this. Can anyone guide me as to the proper way to deal with this?

I am going to import some tiff slideshow stills into DVDSP. What is the proper way to prepare the files?
Right now I just have the raw tiff scans.

1)How do I handle resizing the files for DV NTSC?
2) Do I change the pixel aspect ratio in Photoshop to DVNTSC or let DVDSP scale it upon import?
3. Is there anything else I need to know about dealing with slideshows that may not be immediately apparent?
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Posted on Nov 19, 2006 10:05 PM

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Drew13

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Nov 20, 2006 4:27 AM in response to editgrrl

Usually the best way is to prepare them as any other graphic assets for menus

Start at 720 x 534 72 DPI and rescale them unconstrained to 720 x 480 72 DPI (DVD SP 3 PDF Pg 77) in versions of Photoshop prior to CS2 (maybe CS1 has the same templates, went from 7 to CS2) or in CS2 use the template for DV

Usually the less scaling DVD SP does the better quality, though I have gotten nice results also as long as the original picture was in the proper ratio and I did not want to go through all the steps

Slideshows may not work well on all DVD Players, I have had them jam out at various times. If you convert the slideshow to a track (make sure to make a copy of the slideshow) works okay and keeps things like manual advance

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editgrrl Author

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Nov 20, 2006 6:15 PM in response to Drew13

Am I beter off doing the slideshow in iphoto, exporting it, and importing it into DVDSP as a track then? Also I don't know what you can do with DVDSP vs. iphoto so will have to look into that. Maybe the one in DVDSP would have more options to make it better looking.

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Drew13

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Nov 21, 2006 4:29 AM in response to editgrrl

Really depends what you want the slideshow to do to some degree. iPhhoto and iMovie make some quick and easy tracks/transitions from photo. Even dropping an bbunch of pictures into a folder in iPhoto and just letting it make a random slideshow works fine, really depends on what you are trying to do (for instance slideshows built in DVD SP are easier to implement remote control advancing between slides compared to doing it on a track yourself)

But if you are just doing the moving picture thing, does not hurt to try the other apps to make a .mov (and then compress it in Compressor to an m2v)

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editgrrl Author

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Nov 21, 2006 9:20 AM in response to Drew13

Well, my customer wants no motion at all, so it's just a basic slideshow. Right now the basic scans are really large. So I guess I just need to resize them and go through iphoto?
I really don't want to mess with any features that could cause disk playing problems down the line. They can pause the video if they want to stop on a picture - that's what he plans to do.

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editgrrl Author

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Nov 21, 2006 10:02 AM in response to Drew13

Will I get the same resizing results by simply running the DV resize pixel aspect ratio option in Photoshop?

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