Moose wrote:
> Ken Norton wrote:
>>
>> Moose, I would agree with you in principle, but the problem here is
>> that Khen is trying to master a DVD that will play in any DVD player
>> on any television. I don't think the FastStone/Picassa solution will
>> work here.
>
> Then I guess I have to disagree with you in practice. I just grabbed a
> folder of images and an audio track in Picassa, had it create a movie
> and save it to disk. I imported that into Windows Movie Maker and
> asked it to Publish to DVD, which opened Windows DVD maker, which
> offered to burn a movie DVD.
Now I really have to disagree in practice. I just imported a folder of
the 135 images in my Strybing Arboretum* album into Windows Movie Maker,
pulled them into the storyboard, imported three audio tracks, pulled
them into the audio track, added a title and wrote the whole thing to DVD.
I put the DVD into my player - and it plays, complete with audio and
very attractive animated menu. It took a while to encode the data, less
time to actually write it to disk, but I don't have to tend that, it's
all in background. All about as hard as falling off a log. Since it's
true DVD format video, it should play on pretty much any player, I suppose.
Some images look pretty good on a 61" HDTV, other are pretty soft. Not
unexpected, as I didn't explore options and the images are cropped to
various sizes for web presentation, so the software resized them. It's
really quite presentable as a whole. With a little testing - rewritable
DVDs help- I'm sure I could create one with consistently sharper images
by doing my own pre-sizing.
It's never going to compete with HD, 'cause DVDs just don't have that
definition capability, but a that will be a problem with any DVD solution.
I did all this under Vista. I don't know how similar the XP version of
Windows Movie Maker is.
Now that Carol has seen the test DVD playing, she wants the images from
our recent trip on DVD. Ooops ;-)
Moose
* Strybing Arboretum <http://galleries.moosemystic.net/StrybingArboretum/>
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