PDA

View Full Version : Photo dvd for Mac?

James Greed
13-09-2007, 17:53
Anyone know a good free bit of software for creating a photo slide show that i can burn to dvd and to which i can add music as well?

Was looking at pro show gold but its not mac comaptable.
Glen
13-09-2007, 18:18
Can't you do it with iMovie?
RickMezza
13-09-2007, 18:20
Cant you use iPhoto - save the slideshow and burn it with iDVD - just a guess, I don't know much about Macs, but my wife has one so I might have a look when I get time
theMusicMan
13-09-2007, 18:25
yup - the Mac can do all this with no additional software. Use iPhoto, or iMovie or even iDVD to create any form of slideshow complete with music, transitions etc.
James Greed
13-09-2007, 20:39
The problem i have with moving the images into i movie to add the music and transitions etc is that it degradesthe quality of the images drastically, they go all jagged edged.

Does anyone know why or how to fix this (can it be improved?)
If not is there any other way to add multiple tracks to a slide sho (iphoto will only let you add 1 track and no different transitions)
theMusicMan
13-09-2007, 21:01
I will point a mate who is a Mac expert to this thread. I have a Mac, but only for a few months and haven't really used the native applications whereas he has. I have used it mainly for music recording (Cubase, SoftSynths and recently Images/Photography etc). I will ask him to comment for you.
Jimmy_Lemon
13-09-2007, 21:01
James I havent tried this with imovie (but have with DVD Studio Pro) but it might be worth re-sizing your pics before you import them into imovie (or whatever). 720x576 pixels will get the right size for PAL and should stop the software badly resizing your shots :D
James Greed
13-09-2007, 21:03
I will point a mate who is a Mac expert to this thread. I have a Mac, but only for a few months and haven't really used the native applications whereas he has. I have used it mainly for music recording (Cubase, SoftSynths and recently Images/Photography etc). I will ask him to comment for you.

That'd be great, many thanks.


As for re sizing them, i've tried this to no avail- I think its just a bug/failing of putting still images in a movie editor.
theMusicMan
13-09-2007, 21:06
Done... no probs. I sent an email to a good mate of mine who I am sure will be able to help you.
cjohnwalsh
13-09-2007, 21:41
Hi, I'm a friend of theMusicMan's. Haven't had much to do with slideshows so my suggestion would be to look on Apple's site: http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/imaging_3d/ Have a browse and try different ones and see which one is best.

I agree that the output quality of iPhoto isn't suited for professional high end slideshows. If you find one suitable then please share :)
James Greed
13-09-2007, 21:44
Hi!
thanks for the reply.
I don't think its the quality of Iphoto thats bad , as when you watch the Iphoto slide show the image quality is fine- It just seems to get screwed up when its moved into i movie.

I'll do some digging on the mac site and see what i can come up with.

Cheers
petemc
13-09-2007, 21:45
I made a movie with iMovie using photos i had in iPhoto. Worked perfectly. No jaggies. Dropped the high res images into the movie, added tunes, exported to iDVD and away I went. Just so you know, it does work as its meant to using hi-res images.
James Greed
13-09-2007, 21:51
so what did yo do differntly to me then? i'm using hi res jpegs. dropped into i photo, thn bang0- jaggies everywhere.
petemc
13-09-2007, 21:52
Not sure. I didn't do anything other than drag n drop. Did you set the resolution of the movie right?
James Greed
13-09-2007, 21:54
maybe its the way the images are transfered into i movie?
did you drag and drop them or 'import' them?


edit: sorry you bet me to it.

How do i set the resolution of the movie?
petemc
14-09-2007, 06:56
Its when you create a movie, the first choice you get I think. Or maybe with iMovie 08 its when you export it. I haven't used it much. Should be a guide somewhere.
James Greed
14-09-2007, 11:16
I doesn't give me that option anytwhere. I'm not on ilife 08 though. My i movie is a bit older, maybe thats why.

:shrug:
petemc
14-09-2007, 20:07
Ok when using iMovie HD, from iLife 05 (??) as in the last one, when I goto a new project it has an option for video format. I pick DV Widescreen because I have a widescreen TV. Should be ok with that option.