Slideshow for TV

I posted a thread in the Presentation forum - https://photography-on-the.net …/showthread.php​?t=1268558, but thought I might get more help here. I'm interested in creating a slideshow on a dvd for playback on a TV. I've used a couple of programs (ProShow Gold, Roxio, and another), but when viewed on a TV the image quality sucks. I've found a couple a couple of places that basically talks like you're not going to get a good quality image from a dvd shown on TV. It's entirely possible I'm missing a setting somewhere, but would I have enough coasters from trying different programs.

Any thoughts? Do you mainly provide a slideshow dvd for viewing on PC only? What do you use?

Thanks.

I wound't trust DVD videos – I would prefer digital files on DVD discs.

It's like the difference between audio CDs and MP3 files on a CD.

OK, let me rephrase - what is the best (quality) way to provide a slideshow of images that can be viewed on a TV?

sony vegas, adobe premiere... adobe production suits contain premiere and photoshop

Make the slideshow, but don't burn it as a DVD video. Instead, export it as a ~4GB file and then put that file on a DVD disc.

Most modern DVD players (and all computers) can read the common video formats (MPEG, AVI, MP4, etc).

mclaren777 wrote in post #15528061
Make the slideshow, but don't burn it as a DVD video. Instead, export it as a ~4GB file and then put that file on a DVD disc.

Most modern DVD players (and all computers) can read the common video formats (MPEG, AVI, MP4, etc).

I may have to try that. great suggestion

I recommend ProShow, either Gold or Producer. Best advice I can give you if using this software for Television is to save it as a video file - MPEG-4 at 1080p. Then burn to a disc. Burning directly from software to television output was problematic for me especially with the aspect/ratio part.

I use animoto and pay a little extra for better quality finished product. Never had any issues with quality burnt as a DVD.

David

^ animoto ..Overpriced at $249 a year.. Crazy....

I use Proshow web and always provide in both MP4 and Blu-ray. Used to produce DVD format but the quality really was poor compared even to MP4. Blu-ray is the real way (for now at least!)

scorpio_e wrote in post #16274311
^ animoto ..Overpriced at $249 a year.. Crazy....

That's the full pro version. The one below that is 99 for the year.

David