Blurry iDVD slideshow DVD's????

Has anyone seen this and have a remedy?
Specifically, when I watch a Slideshow in iPhoto, the pictures are perfect. Hi resolution.
When I pull the jpegs in iDVD, add an opening Theme, and background music, and then Burn a DVD ---- the resolution of the pictures is terrible. Whether I play the burned DVD on my Mac, my Plasma, or a regular 4:3 TV, they're very poor quality.
Any ideas if this is a setting issue, or is iDVD lacking in some way? FYI -- When I make movies from iMovie, or Final Cut Express, they burn and look great.
Thanks!

Hi Baygun,
You can copy the ENTIRE iPhoto Library folder to the new G5. Make sure it has a different name before you place it in the Pictures folder so it doesn't replace the library that is already there.
Launch iPhoto with the Option key depressed and choose to open another library. Navigate to the library you just copied over from the PB and highlight it, then click the "open" button.
Copy iPhoto Library folder from one Mac to another
-If the library is small enough, burn the ENTIRE iPhoto Library folder to CD/DVD.
Drag the iPhoto Library folder from the CD/DVD to your Pictures folder of the iMac.
-If the computers are networked, copy the ENTIRE iPhoto Library folder to the Pictures folder of the other Mac.
-If you have an iPod, copy the ENTIRE iPhoto Library folder to the iPod. Connect the iPod to the other computer and copy the iPhoto Library folder to the Pictures folder of the other Mac.
-If you have a firewire cable, copy the ENTIRE iPhoto LIbrary folder to the Pictures folder of the other Mac
Things to keep in mind:
-If the usersnames are different you might have to set the permissions on the iPhoto Library folder to Read/Write for the new user. Check the "apply to enclosed items" at the bottom of the "get info" window.
-If there is another iPhoto Library folder on the other Mac, change it's name so it doesn't get replaced by the iPhoto Library folder you are copying into the Pictures folder...or....drag it to another place on your hard drive.
Lori

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I have a brand new iMac
If you are still within your 15 day return period. Call Apple they will sent out iDVD at no charge. (There are no realistic substitutes.)
Nicely explain that you may return the computer without iDVD. That usually does the trick. You MUST speak to a senior advisor to get a free copy. The first tier people cannot do it.
408-996-1010
800-692-7753
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http://www.amazon.com/Apple-MC623Z-A-iLife-VERSION/dp/B003XKRZES/ref=sr_1_1?ie=U
they recommened a 3rd party program so I downloaded "Burn-osx"
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Welcome to the Apple Discussions. I believe you can get the entire slideshow image into the TV Safe area this way:
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ron

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1 Do one of the following:
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• Press Command-O.
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Hello,
I'm puzzled by the suggested procedures.
First, I personally prefer to use iPhoto to compose my slideshow: iPhoto simplifies the workflow of creating the slideshow and managing the transitions between each images (Ken Burns effects); iMovie always creates the same default KB effect, while iPhoto randomizes it and still allows for manual adjustments. I don't add music to the iPhoto slideshows.
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iDVD has an option to add the original pictures to the DVD in the "DVD ROM" area. You can determine if it's there by inserting the DVD in a computer and quitting out of the Player application. Double-click the disc icon and look in the folders -- hopefully you'll find more than two folders and the third one will be labeled something like "DVD-ROM."
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I don't know if a screen capture would be better... thinking if you had a very large screen, then you'd wind up with a larger-sized screen capture (more pixels).
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I have been unhappy with the resultant quality of slideshows that I have created in iPhoto and exported ('shared') with iDVD. The iPhoto quality is outstanding but I find significant quality degradation in iDVD in terms of clarity and smoothness of Ken Burns effect motion. This poor quality carries-over to the iDVD burned DVD-R.
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Message was edited by: MikeyM

Have you asked over in the iDVD forum also? Any DVD authoring program will not be as sharp as what you see in iPhoto or on your computer because all media is reduced to 720 x 540 pixels. The same goes for videos. Smaller videos are scaled up and that's where you can lose image quality.
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Photo to Movie has received good reports in this forum. When using the KB effect you need to use the largest image available. Not so much with just still photos. As far as videos with motion you did use the Professional Quality setting, right?
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Still images blurry in slideshow

still images blurry in slideshow
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Use an image editing program like Photoshop to resize the images to the correct resolution
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You will also find links to many
free tutorials in the PremiereProPedia that will quickly show you how things are done in Premiere Pro.
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Scanner resolution question related to idvd slideshow

I would like to scan 35mm slides for an eventual iDVD slideshow. I have plenty of storage space.
1. Would a 1200 dpi scan be good enough for an eventual slideshow to replay
on an HDTV?
2. What slide file format is best, e.g., pdf, tiff, jpeg
3. Do I need to do anything special to have the 16:9 aspect?
Advice would be appreciated.

No, I didn't use those numbers. I used some higher
number but kept the 16:9 ratio, e.g., 720 dpi was 935
x 527. Apparently, not the right thing to do.
That should be fine if you are creating a NTSC DVD - you are working in NTSC and NOT PAL aren't you?
As far as 72 verse 1200. I didn't try anything lests
than 720 dpi for my scan. I guess I thought
(probably wrong) that higher resolution would be
better for hdtv.
So, if I use the number you mentioned (per Apple) I
should see the entire screen filled on the hdtv
playback? And is there a point at which increasing
the dpi for the initial scan doesn't help the final
resolution that much?
Unless you are working with the 'Ken Burns' pan and zoom effect for still images in iMovie, the size listed in the Apple document is all you need.
As far as "should see the entire screen filled on the hdtv playback?" goes, you need to have set your set top DVD player correctly to do this - I know this was an issue when iDVD 6 first came out.

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iMac G5 Mac OS X (10.4.3)
From previous posts, it seems that iDVD photo resolution is always less than viewing a iPhoto slideshow while in that application.
So here is my question:
When I use the option of sharing the photos, iDVD creates a "slideshow" folder with the photos in .JPG,on the DVD. If I copy the folder to my desktop, open, then the resolution is great when viewing on my G5. So if the iDVD app and my verbatim media can create/support these images, why is the iDVD slideshow resolution so poopy?
iMac G5 Mac OS X (10.4.3)
iMac G5 Mac OS X (10.4.3)

OK, but why so lousy even when viewing the DVD using
my G5?
An NTSC TV set has less than 640x480 pixel
resolution
- you computer monitor has more than 4 times this
resolution.
You are looking at an image with less than 640x480 pixel quality displayed on a much larger pixel count monitor.
Sorry, but what you see is what you get.
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I created a slideshow in iDVD using many photograps from a recent vacation. I used audio from itunes and it all looked flawless in the preview. When I burned the slideshow dvd the music was garbled and jumpy and some of the photographs were superimposed upon one another. Also, other clicks and visual disturbances happened throughout while viewing and ultimately my dvd player just stopped playing it.
Yikes! Any ideas what happened?

Music and iDVD-built slideshows have had problems at times, at least in iDVD5.
Some users have pasted thier music together in garageband instead of using playlists.
As for the movement/uneveness, I have no idea.....maybe if you fix the sound it will fix the duration?
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