Beth Cataldo, April 17, 2007

Creating a Slideshow in DVDSP
Slideshows show off a series of images in a linear order. Slideshows are limited to 99 slides. If you have more than 99 slides, you can link slideshows together to accommodate them. You can have a slide last for a specific timeframe or have the viewer determine when they move to the next slide by hitting the NEXT or BACK key on their remote. You can either place sound on each individual slide or you can run a continuous audio stream under all slides. You can make the slideshows interactive by converting them to Tracks after you are done formatting them.

Still images in slideshows can be one of the following formats:

If the files are not in the 720X480 pixel format, DVDSP will reformat them to fit in that size. Don't forget to put on the broadcast-safe color space in Photoshop. If they don't fit the aspect ratio, DVDSP will fill in the extra pixels with a background color that you set in the Preferences dialogue box.

Otherwise, slide shows are prepared exactly the way media is for the rest of DVDSP.

NOTE:

• The Slideshow editor does not support Photoshop multilayer still images. It will merge all visible layers into one layer.
  
• Make sure you give each file a unique name. If you don't DVDSP may switch similarly named files when it multiplexes the project.
  
• If you want to use images at a widescreen 16:9 format, you can create the Slideshow and then convert it to a Track. That Track should be formatted into the 16:9 format.

Before your create a Slideshow, set your preferences:

Default Slide duration:

1. Select DVDSP>Preferences

2. Click on the General icon

3. Click on the Default Slide Length textbook and choose a default in seconds.

4. Click apply.

To Apply a Background color (for images that don't fit the 720x480 format)

1. Click Background Color

2. Choose a color by selecting the color picker.

To Create a Slideshow:

You should import all your assets before you begin. There are several ways to create a Slideshow. Do one of the following:

1. In the Toolbar , click the Add Slideshow icon

2. Choose Project>Add to Project>Slideshow

3. Control+Click in the Outline view and selcect Add>Slideshow

Open the Slideshow Editor

1. Double-click the icon to open the Slideshow editor.

2. To add an asset to a Slideshow, drag it from the Assets container into the slide list area. You can drag a whole folder if you are using all the files in a folder.

3 . Drag and drop the images up or down in the slide list to reorder them.

5 . To delete a slide, click on it and hit the delete key.

Set the Slide Duration
A single slide will play for the default time you have set. If you want the viewer to control the time they see the image, click on the Pause button and the slide will pause.

Adding Audio Streams
You can assign an audio file to each slide or a single audio track to the entire Slide Show. If you do assign individual audio files to each slide, each file must have the same format, bit rate and sample rate. DVDSP supports the following audio formats: AIFF, WAV, SDII, MP3 and AC-3. The first asset you add to the slideshow is the default asset type all audio after that. If you try to drop a different file type, DVDSP will give you an error dialogue box.

To add an audio stream to the entire Slide Show:

1. Drag the audio stream from the assets container over the Audio button.

After you drop the audio, you will have three options in the Slideshow Inspector: fit to audio, fit to slides, loop audio. If you choose the Fit to Audio button, DVDSP will calculate each slide's duration based on the duration of the soundtrack.

If you choose the Fit to Slides option, the slideshow will be based on the individual slide duration and the audio will stop playing once the Slide Show ends.

If you choose to Fit the Audio to the Slideshow length and the Slideshow is longer that the audio stream, you can also choose to loop the audio by checking the Loop Audio box in the Inspector.

To Add Audio to a Slide
1. Drag the audio asset on top of the slide you want it to play with.

2. The slide will play for the duration of the audio asset.

To Delete Audio Assets:
1. Click on an asset you want to delete and hit your delete key.

Converting Slideshow to Tracks
You may want to get more out of a Slideshow, such as viewing it at 16:9, adding interactive buttons, or have multiple audio streams. To convert your Slideshow to a Track you just need to click on the Convert to Track button at the top of the Slideshow Editor. DVDSP adds Chapter Markers with the slide's name at the beginning of each slide.

Setting Slideshow End Jumps
1. Click on the Slideshow icon in the Outline View.

2. in the Slideshow Inspector, choose a Menu, Track or other item to go to in the End Jump pop-up menu.

Previewing Slideshows
To simulate a Slideshow, control-click the Slideshow icon in the Outline list and choose Simulate.

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