Slideshow help

I'm putting together a slideshow that I'd like to burn to a dvd and show in an auditorium. What is the best way to do this? IDVD gives me poor picture quality...limited time to get this done...any ideas?

If the video projector supports more than VGA resolution (640 x 480 pixels) AND if it is Mac compatible, you can use FotoMagico to create a higher resolution slideshow for playback via your computer; you can probably also do something like that with iPhoto.

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