Create a DVD with footage that is shot in 16:9, 4:3 as well as 1920x1080 photos too?

I need to create a DVD with footage that is shot in 16:9, 4:3 as well as photographs too (and I'd like the photos to be at 1920x1080 as the DVD will be shown on a full HD tv)
Am I right in thinking I can setup a project in PE3 with widescreen settings, and then crop my images to 1920x1080 as well as using the video footage (which is 640x356 and 640x480)
I want the best quality images, hence I'd like the pics @ 1920x1080
Any advice appreciated

You'll get the best quality if you reduce the size of those images, believe it or not. It has to do with the way to program must downsize all images to fit in a 720x480 non-square pixel space.
You should open a widescreen DV project and add to it photos that have been sized to 480 pixels tall (or 855 pixels wide if you want them to fill the screen but lose some of the tops and bottoms of the pictures) as well as your other standard DV. This will create a standard DV project -- which is what I assume you want, since you're creating a DVD.
If, on the other hand, you're creating a BluRay disc, those measurements would be different -- although if you're not using hi-def source video, you will get hi-def video regardless.

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