Best Place to design a slideshow to burn and view off a CD

Sorry if this is the wrong forum. In the old format there used to be a place to choose questions regarding the Creative Suite in general. Can't find it. So if this is wrong, please advise where I should be. Thanks.
I have a client that wants me to design a slideshow for her son's wedding. She will be playing it on her MAC at the event. Having the whole suite CS5 extended) and realize that you can do almost anything in many places, where is the best place to assemble, and burn the CD. I will be making custom slides (maybe 100). They will have photos and text on them (not just an iphoto picture slideshow...I don't think, or don't want to rely on a person's computer having iphoto). I was thinking maybe Acrobat or InDesign? Thoughts?
Thanks

Here's how to do it using Acrobat:
You will want to consider the aspect ratio of the projector or TV and make your multi page PDF match.
1. In Acrobat, go to Advanced> Document Processing> Page transitions> (Fade), auto flip, all pages.
2. File> Properties> Initial view> Open in full screen mode, save. (open the PDF once and say remember this choice, or something like that, save).
3. Acrobat> Preferences> General> Full Screen> loop after last page. You will need to explain this last part to the person who will be playing the CD.

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You will be pleasantly surprised at how professional the results can be!
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Welcome to the Apple Discussions. As TD pointed out, making a QT movie file of a slideshow involves rendering which is then encoded once again in iDVD. IMO, the best image quality for a slideshow is obtained when you create the slideshow entirely within iDVD. Of course there's no KB effect.
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Hasn't someone made a Sticky about this yet??
I just perused the forum for this answer and it seems the user "Shippley" has provided the most help in this area. I'm hoping they can help in this case. For making a dvd slideshow using ONLY iMovie, iPhoto and or iDVD what process has been determined to provide the best visual quality on playback in a DVD player?
I've read that for best results in putting a slideshow onto a DVD is to make the slideshow in iPhoto or iMovie first, and then send it on to iDVD.
But I need more information, and in one location-
Should the iPhoto/iMovie slideshow be WITHOUT any transitions for best quality?
In iPhoto, should we organize our slideshow in an Event then Share > Send to iDVD for best results, or is there a better way?
Does iMovie HD (6.0.4) or iMovie '08 (7.1.4) make a difference in quality? Otherwise I want the easiest.
When the iMovie slideshow is being sent to iDVD, should we use Share>Export Movie for the best quality when sending to iDVD? Or is there another/better way?
My photo's are scanned from slides and are small file sizes, if they were large (like from a digital camera) do I have to resize them for optimum DVD viewing?
What about the settings for widescreen or standard, either one better?
iDVD encoding, Best/High/Professional, which one for best clarity?
Like most other infrequent DVD makers, I do not want a fancy slideshow, I don't care if it has transitions if it means I can have better clarity in the DVD player. I have old slides that I simply want to burn to a DVD.
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Here is a quote from a post of F Shippley on March 8, 2010 that I am referring to. Bengt, you also responded to this post. The post is titled "poor picture quality with DVD slideshow".
Thus my confusion as to the best practice. I may look into Fotomagico, but like others, I don't want to have to pay for another application that may only be used once or twice a year! Thank you for your responses.
F Shippley writes, "As I told you in your other message yhread:
The easiest way to improve the quality of slideshows for use with iDVD is to create them as movies in iPhoto or iMovie! Creating slideshows in iDVD has MANY drawbacks (as you have probably found). It's 'quick and dirty' easy for a few slides, but that's about all I use it for.
BTW, for PAL DVDs use 768x576 pixel images for standard video and use 1024x576 pixel images for widescreen video. That's all the resolution a DVD supports. "

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