How Do I Create A Continuous DVDA Slide Show

Pop31 wrote on 1/9/2004, 7:39 AM
I've created a DVDA slide show project using approx 300 pictures. I've grouped the pictures into batches of 50 to 80 and have navigation thumbnails for each group of pictures on the menu screen. I've rendered and burned the slide show project but am having a problem in that I return to the main menu screen after each segment (thumbnail) of pictures plays.

I wanted to be able to start the slide show by clicking on the first thumbnail on the menu page and have all subsequent slide show picture groupings (thumbnails) play without returning to the main menu unless I click the menu button on my remote. Does anyone know how to do this in DVD Architect? Any help you can provide will be greatly appreciated. Thanks

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GaryKleiner wrote on 1/9/2004, 9:36 AM
The two ways that come to mind are:

1)Create a menu-based project, add slideshow menu buttons, and each contain your 50 -80 pictures (which is what you have done, I think), and ALSO add a Menu button that has ALL 300 pics.

2)First create the project in Vegas and render as one Mpeg with chapter stops so wherver you strated payback, it would play from there to the end.

Gary
Pop31 wrote on 1/9/2004, 10:47 AM
Thanks GK,
I'll try that tonight.
JSWTS wrote on 1/9/2004, 11:36 AM
If you take route #1, you should know that it is possible to put all 300 pics in a slideshow with DVD-A, but the viewer will only have the ability to jump forward or backward for the first 99. The dvd spec limits the number of chapters to 99 within a titleset, and since all the pics would be in one, DVD-A will only assign chapter marks to the first 99 you import.

The second option will also have the same limitations. You will be able to view all of the pics, one after the other, but you are again going to be limited to 99 chapters.

DVD-A seems to create slideshows by making long mpeg files (which is essentially what option 2 is doing, but via Vegas), which are disc space hogs. Other authoring apps that allow for slideshows are much more efficient in terms of disc space useage. They create single 'I' frames of each pic, and within the ifo file tell the dvd player how long to display the picture. This is opposed to simply encoding an mpeg stream to cover the entire duration the image is displayed. The file sizes are vastly different, and I find DVD-A does not come close to predicting the actual finished file size.

Jim