Idvd still images

I am interested in capturing images from a digital video to create a slide show for dvd. I would like to use only still images from a dv. Is there a way to do this?
thanks

I'm ceretianly no expert at this, but I believe that you can do this in iMovie. Once you've put your digital video into an iMovie project, there's an option somewhere where you select the shot you'd like and tell it to create a still image. Someone else will be able to help you further with this i'm sure.

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