PSE 4 for mac and iDVD

Does Photoshop Elements 4 for Mac support exporting slideshows in QuickTime format?
If so, is the format compatitble with iDVD6?

No, all PE can produce is a simple PDF slideshow.

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    Wonderful advice, if I could ever get to the point where I was actually downloading something, but since MY particular edition of DivX Player for Mac saves me all that bother by hanging immediately upon launch, DivX has very kindly saved me the trouble of having to go through all that "Force Quit" - "Resume" nonsense. Of course, I never get to download anything or use the DivX Player on YouTube or anywhere else, so that's a bit of a downside.
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    Bart Brown

    Well, I can start banging my head against the brick wall again.
    "I have never knowingly come across Divx in any shape or form. YouTube uses either Flash or HTML5."
    I don't understand how you can make that statement, considering the discussion you participated in at:
    https://discussions.apple.com/message/12210423#12210423
    under: Apple Support Communities > Mac OS & System Software > Safari > Discussions
    DivX Web Player and Safari
    ...from July 2009 to September 2010, sections of which you copied and pasted verbatim into this discussion, for example:
    "Klaus1
    Somerset, UK
    Level 7 (22,700 points)
    Re: Plug-ins
    Jul 12, 2009 2:09 PM (in response to Martin Alper)
    "...In Macintosh HD/Library/Quicktime/ delete any files relating to DivX (Perian already has them). However it should be noted that Perian is not an internet plugin and will not play DivX files imbedded on a website. For that you will need the DivX Player browser plugin available from http://www.divx.com/divx/mac/"
    And on September 4, 2010:
    "Klaus1
    Somerset, UK
    Level 7 (22,700 points)
    Helpful AnswerRe: DivX Web Player and Safari
    Sep 4, 2010 5:31 AM (in response to Philippe Pauwels)
    You should read this support page http://perian.org/#support in case you need to delete older codecs. In Macintosh HD/Library/Quicktime/ delete any files relating to DivX (Perian already has them). However it should be noted that Perian is not an internet plugin and will not play DivX files imbedded on a website. For that you will need the DivX Player browser plugin available from http://www.divx.com/divx/mac/"
    And, in reply to Philippe Pauwels response to the above post:
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    Level 1 (0 points)
    Re: DivX Web Player and Safari
    Sep 4, 2010 6:28 AM (in response to Klaus1)
    Hi,
    Thanks for your answer. After some more experimenting, i finally got it to work ... However, not every embedded DivX movie will play.
    I just deleted another codec in the Macintosh HD/Library/Quicktime folder. (One of the codecs mentioned on http://perian.org/#support was still in the folder). Before I had only deleted the files whose name has "DivX" in it.
    I did NOT install the DivX Web Player plugin.
    Now some DivX videos play, some don't... So maybe I should re-install the DivX Web Plugin? But the Web Plugin never worked for me ... If I re-install it, won't I go back to where I started?
    You replied, 10 minutes later:
    Klaus1
    Somerset, UK
    Level 7 (22,700 points)
    Re: DivX Web Player and Safari
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    It could be that your previous DivX player was out of date.
    As Perian says, you need both.
    First, I certainly wish you (or my search of Apple Discussions, which, inexplicably, did not turn up this discussion) had referred me to this discussion before -- it would have saved a LOT of time.
    Now, to your reply to Philippe Pauwels:  "As Perian says, you need both." Both WHAT, exactly?
    From the initial release of Perian 0.5, September 29, 2006, to the latest release, Perian 1.2.2 - Tuesday, April 13, 2011, there is not a single mention of DivX in the entire 2006 to 2011 version history. The only information on the Perian support page regarding DivX is the paragraph that states, in part, "Please consider removing obsolete QuickTime Components: ...DivX, DivX Decoder..."
    Can you please tell me what you mean by "Perian says, you need both," in regard to putative DivX Extensions, Plug-Ins, Components, whatever?
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    Thank you very much,
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    And there is an additional kid on the block: SilverLight. Microsoft has created their own version of what a replacement for Flash could be. You can read more about it here:
    http://silverlight.net/
    So, if you go to any sites that have been designed for this new Silverlight stuff, you can download the plug-in from here (but make certain that you are downloading SilverLight v.1.0 for OS X (10.4.8 upwards) if you are using a PPC Mac. Version 2 only works with Intel Macs:
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