Slide show output to DVD

As a surprise for my wife, I am trying to create a slide show of our wedding photographs on DVD. However, having created the slide show in PSE6 and saved it as a 'wmv' file, I have not been able to output it to a DVD. I have managed to output it to a VCD, but the quality is extremely poor.
I would be extremely grateful to anyone who could explain to me how I go forward from here. I should perhaps add that the DVD writer I purchased for this purpose came with Nero 7 Essentials, although whilst this has an option to burn videos to DVD, it does not seem to recognise my slide show file. Is there an economic solution?

>Is there an economic solution?
I'm new to slide shows, too, and just got my first DVD burner which included Nero 7 Essentials and I purchased the DVD burner plugin.
I don't know about PE6 but the wmv output from PE3 when converted to MPG-2 in Nero Vision SE 4.9.7.6 is not much better than my earlier attempts with VCDs. If you want to try it you should be able to get the wmv accepted in Vision by selecting "Make DVD/DVD Video" and then on the "Content" screen selecting "Add video files". Have you applied the update to Nero 7 Essentials? I don't remember if this worked before I did that.
I've been able to get near commercial DVD quality by using Nero Vision to produce the slide show using the following steps:
1. Since my target TV is widescreen I use PE Editor to crop the pictures selecting the best view in 16:9 ratio.
2. Resize the canvas to 107 percent with a black fill to eliminate the effects of the TV's overscan so I get exactly what I want. (The percentage took some trial and error.)
3. To speed up the process of adding pictures to the slide show in the sequence I want in Vision create a sequenced Collection in Organizer and export renaming to a temp folder.
4. In Vision go to "Make Slide Show/DVD-Video"
5. Browse for media/Browse and add to project.
6. Add preferred Transitions
7. Optionally Browse to a music track and add it (also created in Nero Essentials from a commercial CD.)
8. Click Next.
9. Select "Make Slide Show". (When making a slide show the option to "Create Chapters" is not available.)
10. Right Click "Title 1" and rename appropriately.
11. Click Next and Rename "My Disc" if so desired.
12. Click Next and Next again.
13. Click the "More" button and set up "Video Options". I use NTSC and for DVD-Video: High Quality, Progressive, High-Quality (2-pass VBR).
14. If you do not want to produce Chapters to allow "Scene Selection"
Burn to your DVD burner. If you want Chapters "Write to Hard disc folder". (First time through I'd just burn a test DVD and see how you like it.) If later you want to create Chapters:
a. Open Vision.
b. Select "Make DVD/DVD Video" and then on the "Content" screen select "Add video files", open the previous "Write to Hard disc folder". This time Create chapters will be available and you can go through that and burn to DVD.
Sorry for such a long post but since you are trying to build a surprise for your wife the results of my trial and error may short cut the process.
I'm unhappy with the music option in Vision. So far as I can see you're basically stuck with whatever length and level is in the track or tracks you choose.
Good luck.
Bob
Edit: Thanks to Barb O I've gotten a lot of info at this very friendly forum http://muvipix.com/phpBB3/

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