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hi all. Just found out the wife and I are to be God-parents to a lovely little girl born last weekend - aawww. Anyway took some piccies of her and their family etc and wanted to bung them on a cd with music playing during slideshow - cheesy yes but still nice. I have nero 6 somewhere but little else. Any idea what would be the best software to use for this .

cheers ;)

I use DVD Slideshow Professional.

Can be a little slow, depending on the size of the project, but it does the job nicely.

When you say "cd"...do you mean a VideoCD or a DVD?

Most of the video editing software is able to do photo-slideshows etc. with relative ease. And the build in Windows Movie Maker in XP (& Vista IIRC) is quite good for doing this.

The problem comes when you then want to put that onto DVD, because XP can`t simply create the format that`s needed for that. You always have to export it and then convert to the right format etc. Whereas the paid for applications (e.g. Sony Vegas) can do that part of it as well.

The above probably doesn`t help you much...but hopefully someone else can recommend something better! :D

PS - this page might be useful for looking at free tools for the conversion to DVDs etc.:
www.thefreecountry.com/utilities/dvdauthoring.shtml
Might as well try the freebies before paying for anything.

"Build a man a fire, and he`ll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he`ll be warm for the rest of his life."
-Terry Pratchett.

thanks folks. Sorted. used movie maker then coverted with convertxtodvd.


cheers ;)

hi me again. Need a bit more advice, got piccies on and tried several suitable-ish songs (flying without wings etc)but really want the feather song from the end of Forrest GUmp. Trouble is the copy I have on me Forrest Gump soundtrack is the first part of a suite of piano tunes - lasts 20 minutes. I have tried to source the part on its own elsewhere but to no avail as yet. My question is then - what software would i need to i record just the part of the song i want so i can use it on the disc of piccies.


cheers