Using iDVD 5.01. Adding pictures to slideshows.

Good evening, I am having problems adding certain pictures to a slide show that I am creating. The program allows me to drag and drop some pictures but not others. All the pictures are from the same camera and the same format (JPG) They are not all in the same roll (iPhoto) in fact part of some rolls are allowed, while others aren't.
Any ideas?
Thanks, Brian

Have any of the photos been adjusted/modified anywhere?

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If you'd like to integrate the speeches with the slideshow, I'd do that in iMovie where you'll have more control over the timing. Use chapter markers at the beginning of each speech so the viewer can jump to a particular speech (note that chapter markers advance the viewer to a particular spot -- the viewer keeps watching the rest of the video until the end of everything or until they use the remote's menu button).
If you're just wanting the speeches to be on the DVD so people can listen to the speeches after seeing your slideshow, you could:
- use iDVD or iMovie to make a "slideshow" with just 1 image matching the length of a speech.
- create three submenus and use the speeches as menu music. Here's a (random) video on creating submenus:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlhQSb_D5kc
John

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Poor in what way? iDVD creates standard definition displays of 640 x 480 pixels and will not look as sharp as the orignal photos in the iPhoto slideshow on a Mac monitor.
OT

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....or is there a better application to produce decent DVD of photo slideshows?
Yes. It's called DVDSP (apple's top of the line DVD Authoring application). It has a much longer learning curve than iDvd and is more $$$ but it does work well. The Help Menu alone is over 640 pages long. However, is this app significantly better than iDvd solely in terms of visual quality?.... No.
But it does offer many more tools to address visual artifacts on the finished DVD, more audio control, much better control of durations per slide, audio, buttons that work as expected, among other things. (for additional examples of this see chapter 12 of the DVDSP Help Menu / starting on p. 373).
Short of DVDSP, and much less money, you can also try these 2 third party apps which come highly recommended on this iDvd Forum:
http://www.lqgraphics.com/software/phototomovie.php
http://www.boinx.com/fotomagico/overview/
At the moment most macs do not yet support burning to Blueray (which does offer much better results). Once this technology is more commonplace, then I believe we will see a significant improvement in what you are trying to do above.
Hope this is helpful but if not just come on back.
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Share your movie using either Share/Media Browser or Share/iTunes.
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Don't use over 99 images in a slideshow. You may have trouble:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=302961
1. Just create a new extras slideshow menu from the main menu by using the + button and select Add Submenu. Then go there and add slideshows the same way, only select Add Slideshow and then drag your images in; or use the Import funtion.
2. Drop Zones are for single images/movies.
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iDVD 6 Getting Started PDF download
Apple's iMovie Learning Site
Apple's iDVD Learning Site
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General Learning Center
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Every time I burn a slideshow project using iDVD, the playback, whether it be on the Mac or on a generic DVD player, produces a momentary pause somewhere. I burned the same project several times in order to pinpoint the error, however the pause does not occur at the same place. Any suggestions?

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I am using IDVD to make slide shows. The pictures are clear and of good quality. When I burn the slide show to a disk, the pictures are blurry and of poor quality. Is there a setting for quality of picture in burning a disk?

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Hi,
I would like to make slideshow with music. But not sure i should use iDVD or iMovie to do.
After finished slideshow, i need burn DVD to my friends.
Please help
Thank You !

Thank You for your answer. Let me try.
Thanks!

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a. < Hard Drive with an available space of 12GB > If this is the Main hard disk
the free space is way to low ! ! should be minimum 25Gb for iDVD to work as intended
b. In iDVD 1-6 You can't set burn speed - it read from DVD discs and x16 is way
to high to get an usable result. (In iDVD08 this can be set to x1)
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• In iDVD save as DiskImage (File menu and down)
TEST this with Apple DVD-player.
• If it doesn't play OK try to use another encoder
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(From fellow poster Mishmumken: )
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http://support.apple.com/kb/PH5543?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US

Using iDVD 5.01. Adding pictures to slideshows.

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