Best way to do a quick 800 photo slide show...

We have 500-1000 photos we just want to project for a youth project with some music. Would it be best to go through iPhoto or iDVD (or both)to do this? What is the best workflow? I just need to put in some basic transitions and music...
Thanks in advance.

Note 500 to 1000 photos is a lot of slides for one presentation. 500 slides at 3 seconds each is 25 minutes. You are limited to 120 minutes on a DVD but you have to leave time for menus and transitions also so, the slide show will need to be 100 to 110 minutes long.
To play on a commerical DVD player, using iDVD you are likely limited to 99 slides using iDVD to create the slide show. Exceeding 99 slides can be problematic with some DVD players which either won't go beyond 99 slides or may have a "stall" or glitch in the audio/video when the 99th slide is reached.
Using iMovie would produce the best quality and flexibility (multiple transitions and music etc) but is time consuming as you will have to import pictures and work on the transitions individually. Global changes to transitions and timing cannot be made.
iPhoto might be your best bet but has less flexibility, but you can make global changes to transitions and timing (but all transitions and slide times will be the same). Create a photo album of your photos and arrange them in the order you want (you can skip this step if you want but I have found it easier to rearrange the photos) and then create a slide show choosing your transition and slide times and music. Now share your slide show directly to iDVD or share to a full quality quicktime file for better quality, in this case you will have to insert the file in to iDVD yourself. Note, if you have 1000 photos, this step will take the computer some time to complete.
Use iDVD to create your disk. Strongly suggest for maximum compatibility with DVD players that you save it as a disk image and then burn the image to DVD using Disk Utility (included on your system) at 2x or lower. Use a good brand DVD-R (not -RW or +R) such as Verbatim or Maxcell.
Hope this helps.
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