What is best iLife application to make simple slideshow?

Ultimately it will be burned to a DVD and distributed to numerous users. The DVD will only contain the slideshow. The slideshow is simply 100 - 150 photos with transitions and music.
I've practiced with iMovie, iDVD and iPhoto to make the slideshow, but was wondering how seasoned users prefer to do it. (this is my first "project")
Another important consideration is quality. I'm working with a 4:3 aspect ratio. What size and resolution should I use for the photos? I have huge size photos to work with and I will resize in photoshop. I've read a little about the quality subject in recent posts and it almost seems like regardless of the quality of your original photo, it will still end up low res on a dvd. ???
G5   Mac OS X (10.4.3)  

swamped,
I haven't done any testing with the DVD project yet (burn movie to DVD and test it on tv screen) but am hoping the quality is ok. I'm still a little fuzzy on the size settings though. (bare with me, I am from the print side of design where we like to work with inches and 300dpi) I understand the 640x480pixels (4:3 aspect ratio) and it should be 72 resolution because you can't get any more resolution from a monitor. But that gives me a small "window". If I do say, 1800x1350 (same 4:3 aspect ratio) it gives me a larger window and hence... better quality??? Does this mess things up when it comes to making a movie, burning a dvd or playing it on a dvd player?
I can always tell when comes with a print or design background - they always 'think' in terms of dpi. From a digital video/dvd standpoint - forget all about dpi! It doesn't come into 'play'. (Unless you are scanning prints with a flat-bed scanner in which case you need to use a dpi setting to get the number of scanned pixels you need.)
Today we can make DVDs with images in the 4:3 aspect ratio or 16:9 aspect ratio. See Preparing images for DVD slideshows at http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=iDVD/6.0/en/17.html
If you don't plan on doing any 'Ken Burns' zooming, the image pixel sizes given in the document (notice no mention of dpi) are all the image data you need.
Read through Matti's comment in the thread I gave - Photo to Movie has two output options - and he discusses the quality differences.
F Shippey

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