Maximum number of photos in dvd slideshow - what's my best option?

I have made just one slideshow dvd - it contained 3 different slideshows, one of 90 photos, one of 120, one of 146 photos.
Now I am doing a slideshow for the celebration of life for a friend's late husband.
My problem: she has given me about 500 (maybe more) photos. I've scanned over 300 and have lots to go.
I want this to be just one slideshow so that my friend can have it playing (and looping) throughout the gathering).
Before I proceed with this huge project: HOW BIG is too big for a slideshow? I was going to do one iPhoto slideshow and then export it to iDVD. But I'm starting to wonder if this is unmanageable.
PLEASE help. What is my best course of action? How many photos can I cram into a slideshow? (I'll be adding music as I did on my previous project.)

Welcome to the Apple Discussions. If you create the slideshow in iPHoto there is no limit on the number of photos. However, there is a bug with the latest iPhoto regarding adding music to slideshows and exporting as Quicktime or directly to iDVD. There are a couple of workarounds for that.
1 - create the slideshow w/o music, add it to an iDVD slideshow (like you would a photo)
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and add the music in iDVD.
2 - create the slideshow w/o music, export as a QT movie, 640 x 480. Join the music together into one new audio file with Garageband or the free Audacity, and join the two with Quicktime Pro.
You can have more than 99 photos in an iDVD slideshow but will get a pause/hesitation at slide 100, 198, and every 99 slides thereafter. That's because iDVD has to set the chapter number of slide 100 back to 1 (part of DVD international standards). If burned to good media at 4x or less you can minimize the effect although it depends a lot on the DVD player. Some handle it better than others.
FWIW I've found that I get better screen image quality when creating the slideshow in iDVD. The downside is that there's no Ken Burns effect and you can only have one transition type for the slideshow.
If you have QT Pro and want to go the join route post back and I'll describe the workflow.

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