Ok, just tried out the trial version. You can give it a try too - it puts an overlay on the screen of the final DVD regarding the fact that it's trial software. For 100 photos, it takes 3 minutes, and generates 8 minutes of video. I skipped all the audio and other options, and it defaults to a generic random transition between each photo and burns style pan and zoom for each photo, so there's always movement. You can easily add some audio tracks as well. It creates the video file, and will burn directly to DVD if you tell it to. You can instead edit the settings and get rid of the transitions, animation, and set the time for each image all at once. It doesn't seem to affect the conversion speed though - I had thought that removing the animations and pan/zoom would make it go more quickly. It is maxing our my quad core i7, so it does use multiple processors. A 543 image project, all images from a canon rebel xti (400d) ranging from 3MB to 5MB jpgs. At 5 seconds an image it generates about 1:15 video in about 12 minutes. It gives a little feedback - fps, time left, etc. On this machine it's encoding about 140-160 frames per second, sometimes jumping up to 300 for a few seconds. It's a GUI interface, which may or may not be to your liking. You drag all the photos in, you can rearrange them if you like, then click through each of 5 steps - add photos, add audio tracks, add subtitles and select if you want to burn a DVD immediately, do the conversion, then view the results. You can micromanage everything - selecting the transitions and pan/zoom for each photo, transition time, etc, but it's a quick and painless process if you just want to knowck out generic photo slideshow DVDs, and the random pan/zoom and transistions are reasonable. Anyway, I've been very happy with their other utilities, and this one seems to be par for them. -Adam On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 5:46 PM, M. Adam Davis wrote: > I've been very happy with VSO Software's other products. =A0They also > have a photo slideshow product: > > http://www.vso-software.fr/products/photodvd/photodvd.php > > I might have used an older version of it years ago, but don't recall > the experience. > > They have a trial version. I'll jump into it and let you know what I find= .. > > -Adam > > On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 11:26 AM, RussellMc wrote: >> Looking for slideshow software which can reasonably rapidly produce >> slideshows from JPGs & burn a DVD suitable for use with all / most >> /typical DVD players to display on a domestic TV. >> >> Want ir NOW [tm}. >> I have two solutions that "sort f work". >> >> Standards met / media / ...? >> Yes and no. >> JPG source. DVD + TV out. No hassles. >> Would like it to "just work". >> Don't want to need to refer to =A0CCCIT red/green/blue book. JPEG spec, >> MPEG spec , CCI ... >> >> How hard can it be : :-) :-) :-) >> >> >> I have two partial solutions, each with problems. >> >> 1. Ashampoo Slideshow Studio HD2. >> Slideshow produced is fine. >> Actual production time once all set up is bizarre. >> Maybe 1 to 2 minutes per photo on a trailing edge dual core system. >> (Pentium D 3.2 GHz). >> So a say 1000 photo display would take 1000+ minutes. Maybe > 1 day. >> BUT DVD produced will play on most common DVD/TV combinations using DVD-= R media. >> >> 2 =A0Microsoft "Movie maker". >> Slideshow produced is fine. >> Actual production time once all set up =A0is short (5 -20 minutes >> produce and burn with a very large number of JPGS). >> Does not display on many DVD players. Not even on many PC with DVD >> reader. Could well be codec issues. Seems to offer very limited >> choices >> >> >> R >> -- >> http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive >> View/change your membership options at >> http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist >> > --=20 http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist .