IDVD disk image

If I create a slide slow of family photographs in iDVD and then save that slide show as a disk image can I just burn that disk image to a DVD in the Finder and have it play on my consumer DVD player that I use with my TV or do I have to burn the slide show from within iDVD.
I'm just getting started with using iDVD and want to make slide shows of all my digital photos and I find iDVD Help not very useful. Are there any good book that will help me use iDVD and present simple straight forward steps to creating slide shows.
BTW I'm using iDVD 5.0.1
Thanks,
Doug

Hi Doug,
If I create a slide slow of family photographs in iDVD and then save that slide show as a disk image can I just burn that disk image to a DVD in the Finder and have it play on my consumer DVD player that I use with my TV or do I have to burn the slide show from within iDVD.You use the Disk Utility application to burn the disk image to a DVD, see Burning a disk image file on a CD or DVD in Mac OS XI'm just getting started with using iDVD and want to make slide shows of all my digital photos and I find iDVD Help not very useful. Are there any good book that will help me use iDVD and present simple straight forward steps to creating slide shows
David Pogue's iMovie HD & iDVD 5: The Missing Manual is highly recommended.

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