Burning a disc of still images to be able to print

Hi, I made a sequence of still images in FCP and then put them into Photoshop and de-interlaced them and resized (1920x1080) and saved as JPEGs. Is it possible to go through DVD Studio Pro and burn a disc, so the client can have a disc and be able to print photos from the images (in any computer)? Any suggestions would be appreciated and what settings etc (PAL).
Thank you in advance, J

DVD Studio Pro would be the wrong tool for what you want to do. DVD-SP is for creating DVD videos - what you need to do is create a "data DVD," otherwise known as a generic DVD-ROM. Simply create a "burn" folder for the images and burn them to disc - no need to author a DVD video.
Furthermore, if the image files are to be printed, there would be absolutely no need to resize them prior to handing them off to your client. If the still images originated from interlaced video, then and only then would they benefit from deinterlacing. If they originated as still images in the first place, deinterlacing would essentially throw out half of the vertical resolution - thereby reducing the quality.
-DH

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Hello all, I've stopped by the discussion forums in the past for quick fixes to problems when they come up, this is my first post though that doesn't seem to address anything I've found on here...
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A. I don't use the *Share/Export to iDVD* function in iMovie. iMovie rendering can harm
the photos in a movie.
I do: close iMovie, Open iDVD and import the movie project here (icon with a Star on it)
or just drop the icon into iDVD.
B. Some photos with thin lines most often starts to flicker when viewed on a TV.
I do: In a photo editing program eg PhotoShop or Elements: Apply *Gausian blurr*.
Just slightly. Resulting in non-flickering photos.
C. One can rather easily find out if this will occure by:
• Connect Your miniDV (tape) Camera via FireWire.
• Analog out of Camera to a TV-set
• Set in iMovie. Playback via Camera
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• Flicker (add Gausian Blurr to those photos)
• Color, brightness & contrast
• Over all playback rythm and sound
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retchemteach
Although I have seen your post of today in my Inbox Email Notifications, that post has not yet appears in this thread. It will probably will sooner or later. But, to keep things moving along....this is a copy of what I am seeing as your message of today in my Indox Email Notifications
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I am still trying to buy some DVD-RW discs and will hopefully do that in a
bit. Meanwhile, I have more info for you and some simple (I hope)
questions. If you want to insert your answers, that would be fine.
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unless you mean doing that in Photoshop Elements, which I know how to do
(*see below)
I had NOT considered that I would need to watch the preset for the
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