Poor resolution of slide show on CD

Created slide show in Photoshop Elements 5.0 and burned to CD. Resolution was poor and it did not play in a DVD player. Sales person insisted bundle of Photoshop Elements 8.0 and Premier 8 would allow me to create a DVD. Tried editing my Elements 8.0 slideshow in Premiere. Playback "stuck" and resolution poor. Saw forum where I should "render" the slide show. My 10 minute slide show took 6 1/2 hours to render and then the whole thing crashed and it still isn't rendered. Decided to try building the slide show in Premiere. Cannot sync my music to the slide show (so it all ends at the same time) and have found nothing to tell me how. Decided to go back and try to burn the CD in Photoshop 8.0 as these are Christmas gifts. Resolution is so bad I would be embarrassed to give it. Have called Adobe support and held for 20 minutes before giving up and sent an email to support a week and half ago and have not had a response. Can anyone help? Right now I'd just be happy to give the CD slide show in a decent resolution from elements.

I can't help you with the premiere elements problems, but VCD is an innately horrible format. You should be able to burn a regular video dvd by outputting your PSE slideshow as a WMV file and sending it to PRE to do the dvd authoring, or by using whatever dvd writing software came with your burner.
There is no such thing as a decent quality, reliably-playing VCD, unfortunately. They're always awful.

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Thanks for using Apple Support Communities.
Looks like you have image quality issues when using iDVD to burn.
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http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4078
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