Old Photographs onto DVD?

Hello Reader,
I have a friend that would like me to put together a slide show for his 50th wedding anniversary! The pictures date all the way back to the sixties. My question is this. How do I get these old pictures into my computer and then onto DVD? Do I need to scan the prints or something? I seriously doubt that have the original film
Thanks in advance,
Trey

Your slide show on DVD is a video. You can handle it in exactly the same way as a regular movie from a DVD.
By the way, did you see my MPEG Streamclip tutorials?
[Part One|http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2059475&tstart=0] and [Part Two|http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2070861&tstart=0]

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