I have just over 500 images that I want to put in a slideshow dvd that can
be played on any dvd player. The problem I have is that although Nero has a
slideshow creator it limits you to 99 images per show. Does anyone know of
a free (or very cheap, this is a one time deal) piece of software that will
handle the 500+ images?
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On Thu, 2 Feb 2006 15:59:00 +0000 (UTC), Steve <steve@steve.invalid>
wrote:

Ulead has CD & DVD Pictureshow. don't know if it'll work with 500
pics at a time or not. $49.99 to download, and you can get a free
trial fist to see if it does what you want.

"Steve" <steve@steve.invalid> wrote in message
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Steve

Just requires a little lateral thinking.

A 'slideshow' DVD is basically a movie with still images displayed for x
seconds per image.
At only 10 seconds per image it will take nearly 90 minutes to sit through
your 500 photos.

So if you create five 99 photo Video's (AVI's or Mpeg's) and save them to
disk, you can then create a DVD made up of five chapters each one containing
one of the previously created movies.

I went thru the same exercise building a DVD of Holiday (Vacation) photo's a
while ago.
Ended up using Ulead Video Studio 9 to get all the photo's in one go (nearer
800 photo's)
Sat down to watch & realised immediately all photo's in one go was to much,
better of splitting it into chapters.


Cheers
Paul.

"Steve" <steve@steve.invalid> wrote in message
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Or you could get the free Microsoft Photo Story, that one will do 300
photo's.
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/u...y/default.mspx

Cheers
Paul.

On Fri, 3 Feb 2006 15:56:46 +1300, PC wrote:

Thanks for that Paul, I'll try both (or is it three lol) ways and see which
he likes best (this is for a mate who spent a month in Aus over xmas)
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PowerPost2000 wrote:
Hello, just happened to be passing through because I was searching for
information on Ulead's PictureShow; not only is the trial version
limited to 15 days, but you can't have more than 10 pictures in a slide
show, or more than 5 slide shows on a DVD.

Now, call me picky, but I want to know how long it's going to take for
the application to render a DVDs worth of data, and I'm not going to
find out by this method.

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Halmyre

Hi, Steve,

Photo2DVD Studio is another software choice. You may get it a try from
http://www.photo-to-dvd.com

Best Regards.