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bStro wrote on 12/30/2004, 8:52 PM
I hope you haven't done too much work on this, because you need to do a music compilation for what you want. A picture compilation has a single audio file and several pictures. A music compilation has several audio files, and you can assign a video or picture to each one.

Rob
bolt wrote on 12/31/2004, 4:34 AM
Oh c what you mean... well all i did so far was drop in the picture and assign a track.

I'll have a go with the music compilation and then drop in the pictures accodingly.

Thanks for this.
bolt wrote on 12/31/2004, 4:54 AM
I've tried going into the pic compilation but can't seem to get it to do what i want.

I've basically got 80 photos of my holiday which i'd like to make a slide show out of with music.

What is the best way to do this? Music or Pic compilation? I want to use 3 tracks tracks to spread over 12 minutes. How can you manipulate the audio in DVDA?
JSWTS wrote on 12/31/2004, 5:36 AM
If you need it to switch exactly with the audio, then I would suggest doing the work first in Vegas, and then import the file as dv-avi or encode to mpeg2 and ac3 in vegas and import into DVD-A after that. You could tweak the picture duration as needed, and tweak the transition between songs so that your picture switch is timed exactly. If the transition doesn't need to be timed exactly, you could render and audio file of your three songs, one after the other, as one long stream. You would then create a slideshow and select this audio stream for background and adjust the slide duration to match the audio length. Doing a slideshow allows DVD-A to create chapter marks at each pic so the viewer can navigate backwards and forwards. If you go the Vegas route as noted above, you would have to manually create chapter marks for each pic (or set them in Vegas first--either way you need to manually do this) within DVD-A.

Jim