IDVD slide show formatting

I've read conflicting info ... please help!
Max resoulution iDVD slide show for TV use:
Image resolution?
Image format - TIFF or JPEG?
Image size - 720x480 or 640x480 - or larger?
Thanks,
John

I'd use jpg since tiff are so large and would put a burden on the encoding process. The size iDVD reduces any image to is 640 x 480 x 72. I just make sure my images are cropped to the 4:3 ratio that's recommended and since my camera produces 4:3 ratio images I don't have much to do but minor edits. So I wouldn't spend a lot of effort cropping and changing resolution. Just makes sure they are in the 4:3 ratio.
OT

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Sorry if this seems like just a re-hash of the "Loss of Saturation" thread, but wow....what a disappointment. Actually I was shocked at the result of my first DVD created in iDVD. The images are so soft I'd be embarrassed to give this to someone to view. I shot the pics at ISO 200 inside with available light with my Canon PowerShot G5 at next to the highest resolution (Superfine 1600X1200), all images saved as JPEG's, no photo editing done. The images are very sharp in iPhoto.
Would shooting at ISO 100, highest resolution, or saving as TIFF or other format result in sharper images in the finished product or is this just the nature of the beast?
I can certainly try it out myself this weekend but was wondering if anyone else found a way to get sharp, well saturated images in an iDVD slide show.
Thanks in advance.
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Dale,
Since nobody else answered your other question, let me weigh in. It doesn't matter what ISO you shot the images at, if they look right in iPhoto or Photoshop or whatever software you're editing (or not editing) in. In theory the image you see in iPhoto (or iMovie or iDVD) should be what your final image looks like when you burn to DVD and play it on your TV. The problem you'll have is getting the saturations to match since your TV is working off an entirely different set of color and saturation settings than your computer. When I'm editing and working through colors for a DVD slideshow presentation I'll actually connect my powerbook to my TV and edit the photos directly on the television, thus giving me the correct colors (even though they usually look like crap on my Mac, they look right on the TV)
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Can I create an iDVD slide show and keep the picture resolution high so the pictures will be HDTV quality or near HDTV quality for playback on a DVD player?

How do I create an iDVD slide show that does not compress the photos making them low-res? When I insert the iDVD I have made into a DVD player connected to an HDTV, the playback quality of the pictures are very low. Is there a way to correct this when creatinf the iDVD?

The post by Bengt Wärleby in this topic describes a workflow for producing a high quality slideshow but not an HD one as macpmaus pointed out isn't possible: Create HD slideshow: Apple Support Communities
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My photos are sharp but become soft when used in and IDVD slide show.

My photos are sharp but become soft when used in and IDVD slide show. How can I prevent this from happining??

Hi,
I suggest that you try unchecking both of the crop options - landscape & portrait.
To re-create your situation, I had to check the crop for landscape pictures option.
I prefer to have control over any cropping so I tend to crop each image first before creating the slide show.
Brian

Pictures in iDVD slide show keep auto adjusting

Hi,
I'm knew to iDVD. I am a professional photographer and prior to iDVD used another piece of software to create DVD slideshows.
I created my first iDVD slide show, and encountered a weird issue. The only transition I'm using is a dissolve; it seems that at the time the slide show was being rendered, images were somehow being "auto adjusted" for exposure. The images come on the TV, then they automatically adjust for exposure; iDVD attempts to make lighter images dark and darker images lighter. It is annoying. Anyone know how to turn this "auto exposure" adjustment off?
I looked everywhere for help on this issue: I.E. turn off "auto adjust", but to no avail.

Hi,
Thanks for the reply...
Question: How do I turn on or turn off "auto adjust?"
I didn't quit and then restart...
The images are on the higher res side.
but again, where is the "auto adjust" setting located?
Michael

Rolling credits in iDVD slide show

I would like to have rolling credits at the end of my iDVD (not iPhoto) slide show, similar to imovie. Not sure how to go about it. Do I need to move the iDVD slide show to iMovie?
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rolling credits.....Do I need to move the iDVD slide show to iMovie?
Yes, only the only iLife product that can make rolling credits is iMovie.
But consider this- build the slideshow in iPhoto (without rolling credits or sound) use "Send to iDVD" to create a QT Movie (just close iDVD) and import the movie into iMovie, add rolling credits, titles, sounds, and then use that movie in iDVD. Ok, it sounds complicated, but it is really efficient compared to building the whole thing in iMovie......

IDVD Slide Show Playback?

I have developed an iDVD slide show on my iMac. Testing the DVD's I burned on different DVD players I found that the slide show is interrupted between each slide when using a Blue Ray DVD player. The show runs fine on all other DVD players tested. Why is the show being interrupted and what can be done to the slide show to correct this issue before burning another copy?

Hi
Have no true answer - but suggestions.
Brand of DVD - I use Verbatim
Type of DVD - I use DVD-R
Burn speed - I set it down to x1 (x4 recommended by many)
Free space on internal hard disk - I never go under 25Gb when doing DVDs
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Flickery transitions in iDVD slide show

I have burned two disks now using iDVD and had no trouble but I do have a question about transitions in slide shows. On the first disk I used a slide show (8 minutes, 99 images) with the “fit to music” option and the “use safe area” option for the display. The images were a little too small for my taste on my TV so I redid the show and unchecked the “safe” option. At the same time, I cut 9 of the slides but since I kept the “fit to music” option the timing was slightly slower. Fine, but I noticed that the dissolves between the images were “flickery” when compared to the first one on my TV. I had extracted the .dv of the first slideshow and included it on the second DVD so I could compare them directly and it’s true - they are smooth in the first but noticeably less so in the second, full screen, slideshow.
Has anyone else had this happen? Should I try to add nine more images back in? As it takes over an hour to burn this disk on my old, slow machine I'd rather ask first than attempt every possible variation on my own.
I can add that both disks were burned with the 60 minute “faster” rather than the 120 minute “better” quality mode. Since one doesn’t display the flickering I don’t really think the quality mode is relevant but who knows...
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Hi Rick:
Matti Haveri (one of the top rated iLife members) has done tests on this subject. here are his results:
----quote:
Movie slideshows tend to flicker with high-frequency images while "soft" images are OK.
So I did a quick test to see how the input image's resolution and blurring affects the output quality of those high-frequency images.
Test material: some 2048x1536 digital camera JPG images that had a lot of very sharp edges (buildings, thin wires, construction work scenes etc -- i.e. "high-frequency" images). I converted them to TIF so that there was no lossy JPG degradation involved. I manipulated the images in Photoshop as follows:
1. original 2048x1536
2. original bicubically resampled to 768x576. I guess also iPhoto bicubically resamples; at least the results are very similar. On the other hand, I believe Graphic Converter does not have bicubic resampling so I haven't got as good results with it.
3. original bicubically resampled to 640x480
4. original with 90° (vertical) 3 pixel Motion Blur. The idea is to blur only the horizontal thin lines which flicker on an interlaced TV. The vertical lines are unaffected by this filter.
5. original with 1 pixel Gaussian blur. This blurs horizontally approximately as much as the 3 pixel Motion blur, but it blurs the image also vertically.
In iMovie's 4:3 PAL standard DV project (720x576) I applied to each image a) no Ken Burns and b) 1-5x zoomed 10 second Ken Burns. I did not let iMovie render the non-Ken Burns images while exporting the project to iDVD because that is a well-known source for bad quality.
I burned the project via iDVD's Best Performance to DVD and checked the result via an interlaced 28" CRT TV.
The results:
#1-5 were all sharp with no Ken Burns as well as with 1x zoomed Ken Burns. But the higher resolution non-blurred input images were, in fact, TOO sharp and thus flickered on a TV:
1. 2048x1536 flickered very badly with and without Ken Burns
2. 768x576 flickered slightly less but also very disturbingly
3. 640x480 flickered only little. But both #2-3 tolerated the 3-5x zoom very badly because the input resolution was so small. The zoomed-in image was too blurry and the details were lost.
4. Vertical Motion Blur didn't flicker at all. But during the zoom there was some disturbing "living" in the vertical lines. Obviously the vertical lines must be blurred, too:
5. Gaussian blur didn't flicker and the zooms were beautiful and peaceful. The Gaussian blur lost some fine detail in the zoomed-in image but the quality was very good. And the loss of fine detail is just a trade-off for the flickerless image.
In fact, I have had very similar results to #5 with Photo To Movie's High Quality setting. Also Toast's slideshows are of good quality. A lot of people have also been satisfied with Still Life and PhotoMagico.
Conclusions:
- iMovie should blur the images so they wouldn't flicker on a TV. Applying a small Gaussian blur to the input images seems like a good workaround.
- Using Photo To Movie, Toast, Still Life and PhotoMagico and other 3rd party utilities are good alternatives, too.
----end quote
:)Sue

IDVD Slide Show Feature - Audio Issues

Looked around in this forum and did not see this specific issue.
I open iDVD, pick a theme, add a slide show, select the pictures out of the media window, and drag them in. Select a play list out of iTunes, and drag it in. Play the show in iDVD, all is wonderful. Burn the disk, put it in the DVD player attached to the TV, and the slideshow plays, but the music hick-ups at every slide transition.
Any ideas?
This also happened to me every time I tried to make a slideshow in the previous version of iDVD. I ended up creating the show in iPhoto or iMovie and importing that, but I guess I'd expect that if Apple put a slide show feature in iDVD, that it would actually work...

+but the music hick-ups at every slide transition.+
Toshiba DVD player? I've experienced that with those players...
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Idvd slide shows always display in 4:3

I am new to iDVD and to this forum. I have created a small slide show set to 16:9. My main page and the extras page display in 16:9, however, the slideshows all display in 4:3.
The images are cropped not distorted. This happens regardless of the theme I have chosen. The dvd player is set to 16:9 output and the idvd previewer shows the slideshows as 4:3 as well.
Does anybody have any thoughts?? I need help!!!
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I have a 16:9 monitor and I want to create slide shows using images taken from a DSLR in the 3:2 format. The images are scaled in PSE6 to the default 4:3 slide area.
When I send the slide show to a HDTV format the images are still confined to the default 4:3 box of the slide show.
Is there a possibility to change the default format for a slide show in PSE6 from 4:3 to 3:2 (DSLR format) or HDTV.
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Wolfgang

It all depends on how you crop the pictures. If you're doing a 16:9 slide show, and you don't want any black edges, you'll need to use nothing but horizontal pictures in the same proportions as 16:9.
Unclick auto KB, and you can set the focal point yourself on each slide. Auto KB is a quick fix thing, for those times when you don't care about cropping and focal point. If you do care about that stuff, you'll need to set each picture with it's own KB effect, either moving in or out based on the content of the picture. Auto KB is never going to be smart enough to do that for you.

Possible to include camera videos into iDVD Slide Show?

I would like to include the short camera videos with my still pictures in a slide show, is IDVD or iPhoto slide show capable of this.
My nephew used a program (ROXO -I think) on his PC to do what I am attempting on my MAC - can someone tell me if they have been able to do this using Apple's programs.
Ron

Hi Peter,
One question I do have is that if I "assemble" the pictures and movie clips in iMovie, then export them to iDVD..
..What about incorporating that with the Themes and structure that iDVD uses ??
Not sure I understand your question. iMovie is for editing movies (including still images). iDVD is for publishing a DVD using movie and still image assets. iDVD cannot edit any of the imported assets. The themes in iDVD are for setting up menu pages that allow the viewer to control the flow of the movies/still images, e.g. you can set up a button to start a movie, a button to start a slideshow, a button to a submenu with movie chapters.
It's a shame you can't drag'n'drop movies into iDVD like you can picures - Would make iDVD even more useful and powerful.
You do able to drag'n'drop a movie into iDVD, this will add a button on the menu page. It is just not able to "assemble" multiple assets into one long movie, that requires iMovie.

IDVD slide show autostart

Hi,
I'm new to this so please have patience as I try to explain (thanks).
I made a slide show in iMovie and all I want to do is burn it to a DVD with no menu's. I need it to autostart when the DVD is placed in the DVD player. Is there a way to do that? When I transfer to iDVD it asks me to pick a theme and I don't want one, I just want it to be burned as is and play form a DVD player.
thanks

Welcome to Apple Discussions!
This is from iDVD Help:
+_Creating a DVD that plays automatically when it is inserted into a DVD player_+
+You can create a DVD that consists of a single movie or slideshow that begins to play automatically when the viewer inserts the DVD into a player. Such a movie or slideshow is called an “autoplay” movie or slideshow. You can also set the movie or slideshow to loop so that it plays continuously in what is called “kiosk mode.” This is great for creating presentations to be used in a kiosk or for making simple projects that require minimum viewer interaction.+
+To create a looping autoplay DVD:+
+Open iDVD and choose “Create a New Project” in the dialog that appears.+
+Type a name for your project in the Save As field, and then click Create.+
+The iDVD window opens with a default theme selected. This theme will not appear in your final DVD because an autoplay DVD does not use a theme.+
+Click the Map button (shown below) to open the DVD map.+
+Click Media to open the Media pane, then click Photos or Movies.+
+Drag a movie or a photo album, or even a single image, from the Media pane to the project icon.+
+You can also drag images or movies stored elsewhere on your computer or a connected server.+
+You can use photos, movies, presentation slides (created in a program such as Keynote), or other image files in a slideshow created in iDVD. iDVD works with any image file that is supported by QuickTime (including PICT, JPEG, TIFF, and PDF.)+
+To turn on looping for the autoplay movie or slideshow (a single image is also considered a slideshow in this context), click the project icon and then choose Advanced > Loop Movie or Loop Slideshow.+
+If you added a movie with sound, the audio of the movie is retained, so the viewer hears it during autoplay.+
+If you added a slideshow, you can double-click the project icon to open the slideshow editor. There you can add a single audio file or a playlist as a soundtrack and set other slideshow features, such as transitions and slide duration.+
+Click the Preview button to see how your movie or slideshow looks.+
+The iDVD remote control opens, and your DVD begins to play immediately.+
+When you’re finished, click the Exit button on the DVD remote control to return to the iDVD window.+
+If you are sure your project is the way you want it, you can burn it to a DVD. When you put the final DVD into a DVD player, it begins to play immediately and will continue to play until you stop it.+
Good luck with your project

Un even sound in idvd slide show

I built a slide show in idvd 6.02 and imported a mp3 music file from itunes. When i demo it on my mac the sound is great. level is constant at any volume through my external speakes. When i burn it the volume fluctuates. idvd prorblem? i have my setting at best performance. Movies is fine, just the slide show with transition of flip. I see others have had the same problem but no real solution. Any help appreciated.
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Low image quality on idvd slide show DVD

Hi, I am trying to create a DVD that will play wildlife images. I have the images (In high ressolution, edited at photoshop CS2) and an audio file (Wildlife sounds)
I went to IDVD, choosed a theme, added an image as the entrance, add a slide show, added the images to the slide show, added the sound to the slide show and exported.
My settings in idvd are set to best quality.
The resulting DVD presents very low quality, saturation has decreased immensly, sharpness is gone. Audio VERY loud.
Is this the best quality iDVD can provide? Shall I use FCP (I wish to avoid it since I will like to make new versions of the cd as long as new images arrive, iDVD, if it provides good quality, will make life much easier.
By the way, I tried exporting a slide show from iPHOTO to iDVD but the resulting quality is extremely poor. I also tried to prepare the slide shows on iMOVIE but the results I get are not good either...
Is there anything I ma doing wrong? Should I change the settings somewhere womehow? or Should I forget about iDVD?
Hope to receive an answer soon. Thanks for your time. Cheers.
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See Preparing images for DVD slideshows at http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=iDVD/6.0/en/17.html
I have the images (In high ressolution ...
Basically, that's an overkill. At this point (pre-HD capable burners) we are limited to the less than 640x480 pixel resolution of the NTSC system (or 768x576 pixel resolution of PAL).
You slide show should look 'fairly good' on a TV set or on your computer monitor viewed at 640x480.
Sorry.

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