Okay well the thing is though, I have to have the photos sorted in different folders, or a menu of some sort because the pictures were taken on different days. And...because my audience wouldnt be happy sorting through 2000+ pictures to find a certain one.
Any ideas on how a Macbook could help me sort these? I thought about looking for a program that could tag the pictures and make them searchable, but I doubt one exist that would help much.
Quite easy!
1. Import the photo's into iPhoto.
2. Organize the photo's into events as you like (This should be completed automatically by iPhoto though)
3. Open iDVD go to preference, click slideshow, then choose always fit for TV safe and also click add originals to DVD-Rom (This gives computer access to the original files, but takes up space).
4. Choose the theme you want.
5. Build the menu you desire (like an initial menu to choose photos of video,In your photo menu instead of adding buttons, click the media tab, choose events, and drag each event on to the menu. It will create a title (usually the name of the event, but you can change it), automatically make it a slide show, and add the pictures to the rom.
6. If you want to add music to the slide show, click media, then audio and drag the song you want over the words of the slide show title, and it will play that song during the slide show. (Unfortunatly you can only have one song per slide show, you can make it loop, or fit the pictures to the music. If you want multiple songs you need to use iMovie . . . if you want to do this just ask)
7. Preview the project, make sure it is what you want. (Use the project info tab to check disk space).
8. Burn the DVD.
There are other options for like the song and the slide show, accessible by double clicking the label for the event once it is in the menu.
Just play with it, it is not hard at all and works awesome! I created one last week with movies and pictures that was a full DVD with a pretty complex menu. It only took about 35 minutes to render and burn on my macbook.
If you have any other questions just ask.
-Chris
