Low resolution idvd's

Question

When I burn a dvd from Aperture the pictures are sharp and clear on my hi-def MacBook Pro 17"screen. When I burn a dvd through idvd it is not a picture I'd show anyone. I told at least 3, one to one instructors, I planned to duplicate dvds to sell. None of them thought to mention that the idvd res would be embarrassingly low. For other problems they had me clear the HD and reinstall everything
I have read on some threads that all dvds are bad. Not so from Aperture.
Is there no way to get good Aperture quality (RAW exported as full JPEG) via idvd? Has Apple no pride in their product?
I am fully up to date on all software on the machine.
Also the screen size when I playback from dvd is very small. Is this a clue to operator error.
Please be gentle, I am an old retired guy and this all hard to understand.
Thank you.

Answer 1

Wow what q barrage of information. I read it all. Not sure I understood.
I have NOT made a slideshow from aperture to a dvd.
I have made dvds of groups of pictures via file>export>versions, select the dvdas destination and click burn. To the uninitiated,as I, it seemed, if a dvd can contain information that will replicate the original then idvd should be able to do the same. I finally think I get that point.
Yes I viewsed the dvd on my old tv, it looked bad. Much worse than a purchased video dvd.
I didn't expect my dvd to look soooo terriable via dvd player on my computer. I mean so terriable I can't believe anyone whould ever use this medium for stills or video and that apple really sells anything making such terriable pictures. Shouldn't the pictures look as good as a movie played on the dvd player?
I still think I or the computer are making a mistake somewhere. My pictures don't look as good as the idvd tutorial. Don't you think they should?
You asked how to get Aperture pictures to idvd: choose media and the projects from aperture come up. From there I select the album that I created (in aperture) to be part of my dvd. As others have stated that once this is done and you check the created dvd the pictures look good. Once burned the pictures are too embarrassing to show. I'm shooting RAW with 10.1 MP and love what I see in aperture.
Options I understand to be:
-A $1000 Adobe program.
-A $129 program fotomagicio.
-Hire someone with a good program to do final assembly and burn of a master. (Now I am assuming that the master can be reproduced to multiple dvds with high quality.)
-Try out this automator thingy that says it is not guaranteed and seems pushing new limits on my computer skills.
-Trade the camera and computer for power tools and take up a new retirement plan.
Other than that I need more education as to how all this information gets recorded and duplicated.
So much for the all gain, no pain, easy with professional looks that apple promotes.
Call me discouraged, and I do thank you. This is the best support I have received on any of my apple hard or software.
Ken