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Q: How do I make a simple slideshow DVD of a group of .jpg images?  No music, no fancy transitions. iDVD>magic DVD comes close but the quality is mediocre and I want the images in a specific order.  I also have iLIFE '09 which includes iPHOTO

How do I make a simple slideshow DVD of a group of .jpg images?  No music, no fancy transitions. iDVD>magic DVD comes close but the quality is mediocre and I want the images in a specific order.  I also have iLIFE '09 which includes iPHOTO

MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X Mavericks (10.9.1), USB SuperDrive

Posted on Jun 6, 2016 2:56 PM

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    Old Toad Old Toad Jun 6, 2016 6:48 PM in response to TOWENRV
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    Jun 6, 2016 6:48 PM in response to TOWENRV

    1 - put the image files you want in the slideshow in an album and sort as you'd like. Follow this Apple document to prepare the images for iDVD: iDVD '09 (7.x): Preparing images for iDVD slideshows

    2 - launch iDVD and select an older, non-animated theme.  You can change the theme background by dragging the image file of your choice, plain black or whatever, into the Info pane for the menu.

    3 - click on the "+" button and add a slideshow to the menu.

    iDVD001.jpg

    4 - double click on the sideshow button to enter the slideshow construction mode.

    5 - in the Media pane click on the Photos button.

    6 - click on iPhoto and find the album you created with the selected images.

    iDVD002.jpg

    7 - select all of the images in the album and drag to the left into the slideshow window.

    8 - select the transition for the slideshow and the time for each slide to be on screen

    9 - Follow this workflow to help assure the best qualty video DVD:

    Once you have the project as you want it save it as a disk image via the File ➙ Save as Disk Image  menu option. This will separate the encoding process from the burn process.

     

    To check the encoding mount the disk image, launch DVD Player and play it.  If it plays OK with DVD Player the encoding is good.

     

    Then burn to disk with Disk Utility or Toast at the slowest speed available (2x-4x) to assure the best burn quality.  Always use top quality media:  Verbatim, Maxell or Taiyo Yuden DVD-R are the most recommended in these forums.

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