Help burning photo slideshow

We have a photo slideshow we will be showing at a big family event. It is in iPhoto and needs to be burned to a dve.. We are new at this and have been told that if we don't send it to idvd and use "ken burns" effect the pictures will come out looking bad. I apologize if this isn't clear, but isnt there a way to send a photo montage with effects (that aren't ken burns) to some burning software in iLife that doesn't require "ken burns' and still will look great when played on dvd machine?
Thanks, Jim

Jim:
To burn to a DVD disk so that it can play on a TV you need iDVD. I've never used the KB effect so can't comment on it's quality once it gets to iDVD. I've always created the slideshow in iDVD, added the transitions and music there. If the effects are not motion related then using the Share->Send to iDVD should give you a pretty good final product. I suggest you give that a try and then do a Save as Disk Image. That will encode the material and save it as a disk image that can be opened and played with DVD Player before you commit to burning to a disk. If it looks good then use Disk Utility to burn the disk image to disk: Burning a disk image file on a CD or DVD.
I prefer creating my slideshows directly in iDVD but one downside with that is you can have only one transition per slideshow. The upside is you can add titles and/or comments to all or just selected slides.
Do you Twango?
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