IMovie Slideshow

We are creating a slideshow for a funeral and need to fade in/out different songs thoughout while using text, so iPhoto is a no-go.
I have iMovie 4 and iMovie '08 and could buy iMovie '11 if needed. If I want to create the best quality slideshow, which should I use and what is the best method for getting it to a DVD with iDVD (7.1.2) so that the photos aren't pixelated?
I've been scouring forums for awhile now and there are so many differing opinions that I have no idea what to do. Some say don't use '08 and use any version prior to and including HD6, some say not to export to iDVD, but instead import from iDVD. Please list detailed steps, so even a 3-year-old can follow them.
Any help will be appreciated.

There are many ways to produce slide shows using iPhoto, iMovie or iDVD and some limit the number of photos you can use (iDVD has a 99 chapter (slide) limitation).
If what you want is what I want, namely to be able to use high resolution photos (even 300 dpi tiff files), to pan and zoom individual photos, use a variety of transitions, to add and edit music or commentary, place text exactly where you want it, and to end up with a DVD that looks good on both your Mac and a TV - in other words end up with and end result that does not look like an old fashioned slide show from a projector - you may be interested in how I do it. You don't have to do it my way, but the following may be food for thought!
Firstly you need proper software to assemble the photos, decide on the duration of each, the transitions you want to use, and how to pan and zoom individual photos where required, and add proper titles. For this I use Photo to Movie. You can read about what it can do on their website:
http://www.lqgraphics.com/software/phototomovie.php
(Other users here use the alternative FotoMagico: http://www.boinx.com/fotomagico/homevspro/ which you may prefer - I have no experience with it.)
Neither of these are freeware, but are worth the investment if you are going to do a lot of slide shows. Read about them in detail, then decide which one you feel is best suited to your needs.
Once you have timed and arranged and manipulated the photos to your liking in Photo to Movie, it exports the file to iMovie as a DV stream. You can add music in Photo to Movie, but I prefer doing this in iMovie where it is easier to edit. You can now further edit the slide show in iMovie just as you would a movie, including adding other video clips, then send it to iDVD 7, or Toast, for burning.
You will be pleasantly surprised at how professional the results can be!
To simply create a slide show in iDVD 7 onwards from images in iPhoto or stored in other places on your hard disk or a connected server, look here:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1089

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Hello,
I created (and it took a long time) a slideshow with music using IMovie. Now I want to burn it to a DVD and am realizing I need to put it into IDVD. I saved it to my desktop and then dropped it into the IDVD Magic program but it does not save the slideshow. Or if it does, I can't seem to figure out how to play it. I also can't figure out how to choose the picture for the IDVD theme page. Any help with how to burn my IMovie slideshow on a DVD using either IDVD or some other way, would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!

Or if it does, I can't seem to figure out how to play it.
Click on the "Preview" button in the bottom left corner of the iDVD window. For more details go to iDVD Help: >_Making a Magic iDVD_
I also can't figure out how to choose the picture for the IDVD theme page.
Once you have added your slideshowGo to Help: _Adding images and movies to drop zones_
Any help with how to burn my IMovie slideshow on a DVD using either IDVD or some other way, would be greatly appreciated.
I am not familiar with the workings Magic DVD, but if you have already created the slideshow, it might be just as easy to follow the regular route in making this project. If you wish to try this, follow these steps.
1. Open iDVD, select to create a new project, and name it.
2. Select the theme.
3. Import your slideshow into iDVD. Go to your movies folder (or wherever your project is saved), and drag the iMovie icon (the one with the star) to the window of your iDVD project. Avoid drop zones.
4. You can add photos to the drop zones by clicking on the "Media" Button in the bottom right corner, and then on "Photos". Just drag and drop the photos to their desired location.
5. Preview by clicking on the triangle at the bottom of the window.
6. When you are ready to burn, first go to File>Save as disk image. This will allow you to have a final check of your project before burning to DVD. You can see how this project will actually play when played on a regular DVD player. If everything is fine, you can then burn the DVD using Disk Utility.
I hope this helps.
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Burning IMovie slideshow to a disc - still possible after recent update?

Greetings, I've used IMovie to put stil photos and some video into an IMovie slideshow. Previously, I'd used IDVD to burn the slideshow to a DVD, but since the recent update to Mavericks, IDVD is apparently no longer supported by Apple. Question: How does one now burn their IMovie slideshows to a DVD? Also, with friends in Australia and New Zealand (where PAL is the format) to whom I'd like to share the DVD, is PAL format possible? Thanks for any assistance! Phil

In iDVD 1-3, there was good quality up to 60 minutes, fair quality from 61 minutes to 90 minutes. Starting in iDVD 4, you could get movies up to 120 minutes, but the quality degrades with increased running time, starting at about 70 minutes. The quality at 120 mins is still better than the old version's 61-90 minute projects.
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Do I need iDVD to convert my iMovie slideshow project to a dvd and play in a dvd player?

Hi
First of all - You need a DVD authoring program as iDVD. (No way around this - but there are free alt. as Burn™)
In iMovie'13 (vers 10.0.x) - Select SideShow (Video) project.
Share to file and as 460p - NOTHING ELSE !
Close iMovie and open iDVD
Import the Shared file
Select Encoding quality
In iDVF pref / Advanced - Burn Speed max 4 rather x2)
Save as a DiskImage
Test this to see all is OK
Burn the DVD
I only use - Verbatim DVD-R as they works greatly to me - NEVER Memorex, NoName or other cheap media = PROBLEMS
Good Luck - Yours Bengt W

IMovie SlideShow Project to IDVD?

I am very new to IDVD. I have ILife'11 to be delivered and installed, sometime soon. When IDVD is installed, I envision a simple click and drag or share option to transfer my IMovie Slideshow to IDVD. Right? My project in IMovie is very large (834 clips) with transitions and audio. I like what was created in IMovie and would like to see this on a DVD for sharing with others. Will the content created in IMovie be transferred over to IDVD? Would I select the Magic DVD portion of the IDVD menu, to create the DVD? If you create a new project and import a large amount of photos to an IDVD slideshow, how do you then accomplish attaching audio to a large number of photos? Is the process, similar to IMovie audio? Thanks.

From iMovie 9 and earlier select the Share ➙ Media Browser menu option.
Open your iDVD project, go to the Media Browser/Movies pane and drag the movie into your menu window being careful to avoid any drop zones that may be there.
For iMovie 10 export the movie out of iMovie with Size = 480p and manually drag the file into your iDVD menu window.
To add audo to an iDVD slideshow of stills first create a playlist in iTunes of the tracks you want to use. In the slideshow window go to the Media/Audio pane at the right, find the playlist and drag it into the audio bin at the bottom.
Follow this workflow to help assure the best qualty video DVD:
Once you have the project as you want it save it as a disk image via the File ➙ Save as Disk Image menu option. This will separate the encoding process from the burn process.
To check the encoding mount the disk image, launch DVD Player and play it. If it plays OK with DVD Player the encoding is good.
Then burn to disk with Disk Utility or Toast at the slowest speed available (2x-4x) to assure the best burn quality. Always use top quality media: Verbatim, Maxell or Taiyo Yuden DVD-R are the most recommended in these forums.
OT

I burned an iMovie slideshow project to a DVD but, despite the mac saying that it would play on a mac or windows computer it won't play on my windows laptop. Any ideas-?

I burned an iMovie slideshow project to a DVD but, despite the mac saying that it would play on a mac or windows computer it won't play on my windows laptop. Any ideas…?

Download VLC Player
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-windows.html
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DOn

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Looking for free royalty-free music for imovie slideshow

hi there,
i wanted to score my imovie slideshow with some free royalty-free music. can anyone suggest any sites where i can find it? i need about 1 1/2 - 3 mins., instrumental, easy listening or pop. thanks in advance.

Are you selling your slideshow or just using it for yourself and friends? If not, I don't think you need worry about licensing. You can just use music from your itunes folder for personal use. If you are using it in a commercial sense, then use look for royalty free. I posted royalty free question once, but what i really meant was where to find music and what sounds good. Also, imovie has some jingles that are instrumental. Some go for over a minute.

I am trying to find an app or software to burn iMovie slideshow to a dvd. I have a MacBook Pro with Mavericks. There are a lot of DVD Creator apps a the App store. Looking for a recommendation of what to use and tips.

I am trying to find an app or software to burn iMovie 11 slideshow to a dvd. I have a MacBook Pro with Mavericks. There are a lot of DVD Creator apps at the App store. Looking for a recommendation of what to use and tips. Thank you.

I've been using "Burn" for years and it has been the only DVD burning software I have ever used for the mac. I have never needed to look at other apps. Unless you want something that has more bells and whistles such as Roxio's "Toast" : http://www.roxio.com/enu/products/toast/pro/overview.html
There are thousands of quality free apps out there for the mac that are not part of the App Store. All you have to do is read reviews online, do a little search, the Apple forums are full of recommendations from experienced users that have been here for years...

Imovie slideshow image quality problems

I have created a slideshow in imove with music of a wedding my wife and I shot. For some reason the image quality is really poor. I tried going through idvd and I tried exporting it as a quicktime movie and burning it with toast but they both look crappy on the tv when we watch them. Please help because I need to get it out to the clients.
I have done this once before and I did have some problems but somehow got the quality we wanted. Any help is greatly appreciated.
Wayne Sawyer

If some slides show a lot of "jaggies" the project may have been affected by a long-standing bug in iMovie that adds jaggies to photos when you share the project with iDVD. If we grant permission for iMovie to render the images when sending the project to iDVD, it messes them up pretty badly.
If that's what happened, you'll need to re-import those images to replace the badly-rendered clips.
Lots more here:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=2105598&#2105598
Karl

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I have used IMovie to make slideshows mixed with videos for years. I have even made one recently which was perfect. Suddenly, some of the photos, though crystal clear in the timeline are blurred when set in motion. Certain transitions seem to cause the affect, but, it is hard to figure out why and which ones do it. IMovie seems to record the show in 1080 HD (1920 x 1080) whatever that might mean. When I tried sharing it to ITunes in both HD 720p (1280 x 720) or Large 540p, there is some improvement, but not on all. I am at a total loss as to what to do.

Sounds like you are in Browser view, not the Viewer view.
Is anything reported in the Activity window ("Window→Show Activity")?
What happens if you select all and then while pressing "Option" execute "Photos→Generate Previews"?

Terrible Loss of Contrast Playing iMovie slideshow

I am stumped! I have tried to compile a slideshow using iPhoto and iMovie. These are old black and white photos that were scanned. When I burn them to a DVD they look okay on my monitor, but when I play the DVD on a big screen TV or in a large projection format the facial contrast is blown out to almost white on most photos. I've tried adjustiing in Photoshop before sending the jpeg's directly into iPhoto or iMovie. Nothing seems to work. Also, when I use the Ken Burns effect there is noticible pixilation in the movement. Can anyone help me?

Besides calibrating the monitor (..and its 'theta' ..no, sorry: 'gamma'..) what about the TV / projector?
Many are notoriously incorrectly set up ..just go into any TV shop and see the range of different brightnesses/contrasts/tuning and clarity on all the different TVs.
It may be that your monitor's OK, but the TV is wildly out, and set to too high a contrast and incorrect brightness setting. Many modern TVs adjust their own brightness and contrast to match the general 'ambient' brightness in a room, so that the picture's bright enough to watch with the curtains open in daylight. As the room gets darker, the TV adjusts its own settings downwards (reduces it own brightness & contrast) to match.
Many projectors show little fine detail, but just 'blast' pictures at a screen to give maximum impact.
I'd try a variety of different TVs. Oh, and TVs don't have the fine resolution (..nor generally do projectors..) which monitors have. So you'll almost always see far more detail and gradation on a monitor than on a TV. TVs are built for watching moving pictures from across the room, or from several feet away, and not for looking at static pictures with fine detail from only a foot or so away, as you do with a monitor.
So don't expect too much from a TV..

Best way to export imovie slideshow to idvd?

I've built an 8 min. slide show in imovie with transitions between stills and music too.
What is the best way to get it into idvd to watch on regular tv. I want a good quality. It looks great on my computer in imovie, how do i finish the final step?
I am using Leopard and imovie '09.
Under the SHARE menu I see a few export options and am not sure which one to use?
Thanks

My advice would be to do some trial runs. I have used the process AppleMan suggested with good success. I have also saved from iDVD as a disc image and created a DVD by burning using disk utility. That process yields a good final product too. Currently, I am working on a project that is about 6 minutes long including still photos, music, sound effects and titles. I did a test by exporting the slideshow movie to the desktop, opening iDVD and dropping it in and burning from there. Of all the methods I have tried, that one has given me the sharpest, brightest images. So for now, that is the process I am using. Good luck.

Finally finished my iMovie slideshow...

but it's 9.7GB! It's 30 minutes long and I'd like to burn it to DVDs for few people.
Is there a way for me to reduce the size without changing the slideshow so I can fit it on 1 DVD? Otherwise I'd have to burn it on 3 dvds for each person who wants it. If that's not possible, I'd like to burn chapters onto the dvd but how do I know how much memory each chapter takes?
Finally for future reference, what size photos should I use to reduce the slideshow size?
Thanks in advance.

Hi Steven,
I've only burned one dvd after creating a project in iMovie, so I'm no expert but this is what I did last week after playing around with my new iMac ...
Open iDVD --> preferences --> "encoder settings" --> "best quality".
This should work. I recently burned a 75 movie that was 12 gig or so and initially I was unable to burn it all to one dvd due to the file size (didn't have any dual layered dvds around either). I tried the best quality and it took a while for the encoding to happen, but it worked ... got the whole movie on one dvd.
Hope this helps.
Good luck,
Brent

Moving pictures in iMovie slideshow

I have started a slideshow project in iMovie, but now that I have the pictures in iMovie, I am finding them much harder to put in order than in iPhoto. Would it be better to start over by putting them in order in iPhoto? And if I do that, will they be in the same order when I transfer them to iMovie?

You can put them in order in an iPhoto Album. Then in the Photo Browser in iMovie, you can drag the icon for the album into your movie all at once, and the photos should stay in order.
You can also drag an iPhoto Event into your movie, but the photos will not be in order.

How do I burn imovie slideshow to a DVD??

I created a slide show in imovie. 77 slides, transitions and music. This is my first creation in imovie. How do I get it onto a DVD which will play on my TV?
I went to the burn project, says that won't play, looks like I have to send it to idvd, but I don't want to drop it into one of their backgrounds.
I have looked in all my books, but they don't seem to make sense to me. Can someone give me instructions geared toward a 3rd grader??? I think that is my level.
Thanks!
Colleen

Colleen,
To create a DVD playable on a TV set you will have to use iDVD. If you don't want to see any menus, export your slideshow as DV video from iMovie.
Then use that DV format movie in this procedure: http://homepage.mac.com/profpixel/AutostartDVD/autostart.htm that I put together a couple of months ago as a result of requests in the iDVD forum.
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