Wanting to make a high quality slide show

I have pse 5 and want to make slide shows. I know that I must save the show to .wmv.
Please give me some tips on making the best quality HD tv slide show using pse 5. I am primarily concerned with visual quality, not features such as a 1000 different transitions.
As far as VCD's go, are they capable of producing excellent quality, assuming a short slide show?
Or, will I have to get Premiere to get the best playback quality?
Lastly, do the stand alone slide show programs create better quality (not transitions, etc.) shows?
Thanks very much in advance.
Steve.

>As far as VCD's go, are they capable of producing excellent quality, assuming a short slide show?
simple and direct answer - NO
>best quality HD tv slide show using pse 5
How will you play back this slide show on your HD TV?
Do you have a Media Center configuration where you can play from your PC to your TV?
Do you have a DVD burner that can burn Blue Ray DVDs and a TV DVD player that can play the Blue Ray DVDs?
Premiere Elements does have the potential to give you better quality for TV playback from a DVD. More info and suggestions sort of depend on responses to those questions above as well as the specifications of your PC and therefore its capability to handle HD video.
EDIT - adding comment
If you want to pursue the Premiere Elements discussion, there is a forum at muvipix.com (a site started by some regulars at the Adobe Premiere Elements forum) that may be a better forum for this discussion.
>Lastly, do the stand alone slide show programs create better quality (not transitions, etc.) shows?
Potentially yes. ProShow Gold is a program that some Photoshop Elements users like for their slide shows. Hopefully someone who is using that software will post to this thread.

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Thanks for using Apple Support Communities.
Looks like you have image quality issues when using iDVD to burn.
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http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4078
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I'm not sure what to tell you about pixel ratio and RGB vs. CMYK....
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A How To: Create a Widescreen High Definition Slide Show from the Organizer

[EDIT] I just tried another one and, weirdly, that produced an output with black bars around all four sides! So maybe this 'how to' is not 100%. I have considered deleting the post altogether but, as it does still produce a superior slideshow quality file than the standard ones provided with Elements, I've decided to leave it with this edit added at the top for additional info.[END_EDIT]
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So if you are just after a straightforward slide show (i.e. not needing PRE features) but want it displayed on your Full HD TV set here is what you do:
Download the HD Profiles from http://forums.nexusmods.com/index.php?/topic/236895-hd-profiles-for-windows-movie-maker/. There's also a couple of useful SD sizes there as well. Save them somewhere you can easily find them.
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Save and Output your slide show.
In the output dialog ('Save As a File') scroll down to the bottom of Slide Size and select 'Browse for more ...'.
Browse to the file you downloaded in step 1 and click Open.
Click OK and your Widescreen HD .wmv file is prepared.
Here's a Gspot analysis of my test output file. As you can see it is an HD file with a 16:9, square pixel, aspect ratio.
Ta Da!
Cheers,
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nealeh
You did not mention a specific Premiere Elements Elements Organizer combo for this, so for now I will address this from the version 11, not Windows Movie Maker, perspective if I need to get version specific.
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Local Disc C
Profile Files (x86)
Adobe
Elements 11 Organizer
Assets
Locale
en_US
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.....10. 640 x 480 Enhanced Definitions
.....12. 852 x 480 Widescreen Enhanced Definition
.....14 1280 x 720 Widescreen High Definition
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More later.
ATR

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