Photo size when scanning slides.

I recently scanned 900 Kodachrome slides most of them 50 years old. Following the instructions from a Silverfast tech I set the DPI at 1200 and selected tiff files. I now realize these pictures are 100 Mb each--way too big! Especially after editing which makes another copy. My question is whether I should start over and rescan all the slides at a much lower DPI or invest in some kind of software that will let me reduce the size. Either way will be time consuming but time is not really a problem for me. Also I would like your opinion as to whether I should use JPEG instead of TIFF if I decide to rescan. I want to make a slide show with 300 of these slides and burn it to DVD to watch on a 55" HDTV. Thanks for any help.

Another good way to do this is in Photoshop Elements. You can set it to do commands on batches of photos, in your case, to reduce the size from 1200 DPI to, say, 600 DPI. It may still take a while to actually do the reductions, but you won't have to be there, it'll do them automatically.
I used this feature once to reduce about 500 photos from original size to a lower resolution to fit on a sim card for a photo frame I gave my Mom a few years back. Worked like a charm.
You can also use the batch feature to change from tiff to jpeg, which is what I'd recommend. You really don't need tiffs for this type on on screen viewing. (But why not try a sample set of 10 or so, show them on the TV, and judge for yourself.)
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