DVD Authoring

csonni · Feb 17th, 2008, 07:17 AM

Just was wondering what others are using to create DVD's on their Macs. I have an old copy of DVD Studio Pro 2 and see that there is a version 4 out. I want to create a NL Tourism DVD with images and music. I'm sure I could do it with DVD Studio Pro 2, but is there much better alternatives without spending an enormous amount of money? I do have iDVD (older version) on my MacBook, but I would like to have several different transitions on my slideshow. iDVD may be a bit limited.

zarquon · Feb 17th, 2008, 09:14 AM

	Quote:			Originally Posted by csonni
	Just was wondering what others are using to create DVD's on their Macs. I have an old copy of DVD Studio Pro 2 and see that there is a version 4 out. I want to create a NL Tourism DVD with images and music. I'm sure I could do it with DVD Studio Pro 2, but is there much better alternatives without spending an enormous amount of money? I do have iDVD (older version) on my MacBook, but I would like to have several different transitions on my slideshow. iDVD may be a bit limited.

If you don't want to spend anymore money on upgrading your software, you could build the slide show part in iMovie as well, using the transitions there, and then export the whole movie project to iDVD.

You note that you have a MacBook, so you're iLife can't be that old a version. There should be plenty of nice transitions and options in it, and in iDVD. I think that you can even build your slides in iPhoto and transfer them into iDVD, but I've never done this. I think that the options for the movie size that it outputs is not very large, and you can't make custom sizes. (but you can do music and different transitions per image)

Z.

wtl · Feb 17th, 2008, 09:22 AM

Give iMovie a shot, which can do what you are describing, as can iPhoto and then use iDVD to burn the movie to disc.