Want your slideshows to do more, File formats for slideshows, Still images in sd projects – Apple DVD Studio Pro 4 User Manual
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You can also convert a slideshow to a track, allowing you to add additional audio streams
and subtitles to it.
A slideshow can contain up to 99 still images. Each still can have its own display duration,
or the viewer can control when to go to the next still. You can add audio to each slide
and let each audio file’s duration determine the slide’s display duration. Alternatively,
you can assign one or more audio files to the overall slideshow, with each slide’s duration
scaled so the whole slideshow fits the duration of the audio files. You can also assign
transitions to each slide, adding effects such as dissolves and wipes as you play the
slideshow.
Want Your Slideshows to Do More?
Even with all that DVD Studio Pro allows you to do with a slideshow, you may find yourself
wanting it to do more. For example, if you want a panning or zooming action on each
slide, or more than the 99–still image limit, you will need to use an editing application,
such as Final Cut Pro or Final Cut Express to edit the stills together into a QuickTime movie.
You can import the movie into a DVD Studio Pro track. You can even add markers and
force manual pauses so that the viewer can still control the pace of the slideshow playback.
Another way to get around the 99–still image limit is to manually create a slideshow in
the Track Editor.
File Formats for Slideshows
Slideshows can use a wide variety of still and audio formats. The following sections,
,
, and
, provide details on
these formats.
Still Images in SD Projects
DVD Studio Pro lets you use most common image formats in slideshows. You can also
use a mix of formats within a slideshow. See
for a list of supported
formats.
Once a still is imported into DVD Studio Pro, it is scaled, if necessary, to fit the slideshow’s
resolution. If any of the still images do not fit the 4:3 or 16:9 aspect ratio you’ve chosen
for the slideshow, a background color fills the gaps. You can set the background color in
the General pane in DVD Studio Pro Preferences. See
for more
information.
Important:
Use care not to mix 4:3 and 16:9 stills in a slideshow.
For more information about still image sources, see
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Chapter 18
Creating Slideshows