Burning a CD to view on DVD Player

I have a new Sony DVD Recorder & Player Model RDR GX-315.
When I Export photos to a folder on my desktop and the burn them (all JPEG images) some of the images have a minature thumbnail of the image while the majority have a JPEG logo. The ones that have the minature thumbnail cannot be supported by the DVD player. I don't know how these are different and how I can change them to be compatible. The Get INfo identifies all the images as JPEG's.

do they have the same aspect ratio?

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I am new to iMovie and currently using it to make a movie that I want to give as a Christmas present, therefore I want to burn the movie to DVD so it can be watched on DVD players as well as computers.
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Best / High Performances (most often my choice before Pro Quality)
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2 = EU
unclemano wrote
What it turned out to be was the "quality" settings in iDVD. The total clip time was NOT over 2 hours or 4.7GB, yet iDVD created massive visual artifacts on the "professional quality" setting.
I switched the settings to "high quality" which solved the problem. According iDVD help, "high quality" determines the best bit rate for the clips you have.
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• Set down burn speed to x4 - less burn errors = plays on more devices
• No other process running in background as - ScreenSaver, EnergySaver OR TIMEMACHINE etc
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• and I consider the iDVD Bug - never go back to video-editor to change/up-date - if so Start a brand new iDVD project
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• Lay-out - Turn on TV-Safe area and keep everything buttons, titles etc WELL INSIDE not even touching it !
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• Secure a minimum of 25Gb free space on Start-Up (Mac OS) hard disk
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• and I'm very careful on what kind of video-codecs, audio file format and photo file formats I use
• and I consider the iDVD Bug - never go back to video-editor to change/up-date - if so Start a brand new iDVD project
• Chapters set as they should - NO one at very beginning and no one in any transition or within 2 sec from it
• Lay-out - Turn on TV-Safe area and keep everything buttons, titles etc WELL INSIDE not even touching it !
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• Minimum of 25Gb free space on Start-Up hard disk
• No other programs running in BackGround e.g. Energy-Saver
• Don’t let HD spin down or be turned off (in Energy-Save)
• Move hard disks that are not to be used to Trash - To be disconnected/turned off
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pointer to this - turns on screen saver - to show that it has nothing to show
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• NO - TimeMachine - during iMovie/iDVD work either ! IMPORTANT
• Lot's of icons on DeskTop/Finder also slows down the Mac noticeably
• Start a new User-Account and log into this and iMovie get's faster too - if a project is in a hurry
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