Best Setting to Create Video in LR

Question

First I am talking about creating a video from still Raw photos in LR.   Actually two different topics;
(1) Issue with MP4 - I an new to all the settings, formats to do this.  I created an MP4 1080p with music and it worked well on Win7 OS but not on XP or Vista... The audio did not play correctly.      I might be able to live with this but I would like to know if creating 1080p or 720p would resolve the audio issue? at a trade off in quality? ... I a real newbie in this area...     The videos from stills that I have seen were not good quality but this created great quality.
(2) A different question --- What format/setting in LR to create a DVD with audio that could be played in a non Blu Ray unit... I want to be able to use a large TV with a DVD player.....    Do I use the create Video or do I create a Slide Show with audio and what setting...   I know I need to do some reading...    I am a bit under the gun to get processing results and since I have so many photos, they will be good for this type of thing vs. delivering just normal JPEG images.
Thank you.

Answer 1

As far as playing video files on different OS's this is more dependent on the player you are using and the video card, than the OS you are using. On windows systems windows media player should handle HD formats as long as your video card is up to it, if you have problems download VLC media player (just google it) as this will play anything you throw at it.
LR's video output is very limited (and in my view a waste of time), if you really want to incorporate still images into a video format you would be better using a video editing application rather than LR's output. For the best quality slideshow from still images you would also be better either showing slideshows directly using LR itself or using PDF's as even HD video will comes nowhere near matching the quality of a still photographic image. If you wish to mix still and moving images then I would crop and export the images as 8 bit tiffs and import them into the video editing application where you can have much more control. On Macs i-movie is pretty good for basic video editing. Unfortunately on windows you will really have to buy an application as the free windows application is useless. Premier Elements is a pretty good choice.
If you do wish to use video exported directly from LR the HD setting are 1080p or 720p and this would require a Blue Ray disk to play correctly. The HD 1080p gives a 16:9 format with a max width of 1920pxs, 720p is 1280 x 720pxs . To make a standard DVD you use the 720 x 440 output (rather than the two HD formats) and then you would require a DVD creation application to actually burn the DVD.
By the way, I have an a couple of tests on the HD output as a slideshow from LR compared with using Premier Elements. I will post these to Vimeo and put links once they are showing. One point emerges straight away, even without sound the same slideshow is 20% larger from LR than outputted from Elements using Vimeo's recommended compression settings in both cases. Played on my machine directly the Elements version also looks better, whether this will also show on line I don't know until they have uploaded and rendered.
Here is the version from LR...play at full screen and you will see the problems.
Here is the version made in Premier Elements, which is far better (and a smaller file).