TV replay of Slide show built in iDVD is poor.

I have followed the instructions to the letter for making and burning a slide show to DVD (using iDVD). No matter which format (4:3 or 16:9) I use, the final product appears very pixilated when played on the TV.
I have a wide screen Sony Bravia and have used it in wide, standard and all other options trying to improve the photos in the slide show ... all to no avail.
Can someone please tell me what I can do to overcome this problem. I don't expect HD (can't get it with iDVD) but I do expect a photo to look comparable to a screen shot on the TV.

I'm having the same problem.
I've looked at a lot of threads dealing with this problem but have yet to find any solutions that really help fix the problem.
Is it not possible to get good quality photos in a slide show through iDVD? So far they all look terrible.

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When I burn that slide show on a DVD and I put the DVD in my DVD reader, conected to the television, the quality of the images become very poor.
What's appens ??
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Hi
When I burn that slide show on a DVD and I put the DVD in my DVD reader, conected to the television, the quality of the images become very poor.
What's appens ??
As I see it - it falls back on that DVD is as STANDARD only Interlaced SD-Video at it's best (even commercial made ones)
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If You need higher quality (and this includes several problems)
• DVDs can not be used
• You can try Blu-Ray (short one on DVD disks) - BUT You also need a Blu-Ray Player as a PlayStation 3 (you also need a program that can author BD-Disks as Roxio Toast™)
• You can try to Export as HD and to an USB-Memory stick - if You have any device that can take this
• You can connect a Mac to a big sized flat-screen TV - and playback this way
End of ideas.
Yours Bengt W

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What do you have for slide timing? Set to manual and then try again:
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OT

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Looked around in this forum and did not see this specific issue.
I open iDVD, pick a theme, add a slide show, select the pictures out of the media window, and drag them in. Select a play list out of iTunes, and drag it in. Play the show in iDVD, all is wonderful. Burn the disk, put it in the DVD player attached to the TV, and the slideshow plays, but the music hick-ups at every slide transition.
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This also happened to me every time I tried to make a slideshow in the previous version of iDVD. I ended up creating the show in iPhoto or iMovie and importing that, but I guess I'd expect that if Apple put a slide show feature in iDVD, that it would actually work...

+but the music hick-ups at every slide transition.+
Toshiba DVD player? I've experienced that with those players...
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http://www.lqgraphics.com/software/phototomovie.php
(Other users here use the alternative FotoMagico: http://www.boinx.com/fotomagico/homevspro/ which you may prefer - I have no experience with it.)
Neither of these are freeware, but are worth the investment if you are going to do a lot of slide shows. Read about them in detail, then decide which one you feel is best suited to your needs.
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You will be pleasantly surprised at how professional the results can be!
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Note 500 to 1000 photos is a lot of slides for one presentation. 500 slides at 3 seconds each is 25 minutes. You are limited to 120 minutes on a DVD but you have to leave time for menus and transitions also so, the slide show will need to be 100 to 110 minutes long.
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Hope this helps.
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Slide shows and pic Quality

Hi, all:
Asking for advice, etc: I have been creating a slide show of a batch of old photos inherited from my mother. I want to share these photos, some of which are over 100 years old and have done the following:
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Any opinions on that or any hints, especially iMovie vs iDVD?

I recently put together a slideshow of several hundred images (both B&W and color) and used FotoMagio. It has more features and gave me better quality than iMovie/iDVD. I then used the movies it produced in iDVD.
Other like Photo to Movie.
Both have trial versions available.
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Slide Show File Names

To All,
Is it neccessary to have individual file names for all the files in all the slide shows?
I created a DVD with several slide shows that contian many images from my digital camera. Some of the files have the same name (ie:, DCS_004). All the slide shows stayed together while I put the presentation together. But now, when I reopen the iDVD file, I'm asked to find all the files for each slide show (which I have in individual folders). I choose the first slide for each show, the others followed automatically. But the problem is that the slide shows are all mixed up. Images (with the same name) from different shows (folders) are appearing in different slide shows. Should iDVD automatically find the images rather than me having to find each slide show???
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You can do it in Encore 2.0.
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Whenever I create a slide show and try to export it to iDVD I get an error message that says 'Export movie file could not be saved'.
I can export single pictures without any problem but cannot export the slide show to either iDVD or as a file.
Any idea what the problem may be? I'm using iPhoto 5.0.4 and OS 10.4.3. I've deleted .plist files and that didn't solve the issue.
Thanks,
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Lori, I guess I should have mentioned that I tried that suggestion after browsing the forum. I do have a Movies Folder.
I opened iDVD and started a new project. Left iDVD open and tried to export the slide show- same error message. I then quit iDVD and tried again-same error message.
I get the same error message when trying to export to iDVD and when just doing a straight export so I don't think it has anything to do with iDVD.
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Once you have the project as you want it save it as a disk image via the File ➙ Save as Disk Image menu option. This will separate the encoding process from the burn process.
To check the encoding mount the disk image, launch DVD Player and play it. If it plays OK with DVD Player the encoding is good.
Then burn to disk with Disk Utility or Toast at the slowest speed available (2x-4x) to assure the best burn quality. Always use top quality media: Verbatim, Maxell or Taiyo Yuden DVD-R are the most recommended in these forums.
If iDVD was not preinstalled on your Mac you'll have to obtain it by purchasing a copy of the iLife 09 disk from a 3rd party retailer like Amazon.com: ilife 09: Software or eBay.com. Why, because iDVD (and iWeb) was discontinued by Apple over a year ago.
Why iLife 09 instead of 11?
If you have to purchase an iLife disc in order to obtain the iDVD application remember that the iLife 11 disc only provides themes from iDVD 5-7. The Software Update no longer installs the earlier themes when starting from the iLIfe 11 disk nor do any of the iDVD 7 updaters available from the Apple Downloads website contain them.
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This shows the iDVD contents in the iLife 09 disc via Pacifist:
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