Recording Photo - DVDs
Posted by: Mr Underhill on 22 December 2006
Well I'm still recording choirs I sing in, and producing CDs & DVDAs.
However, one thing I'd meant to do for the last couple of years was work out how to put my digital photos onto DVD to share with friends & family.
Had a need to do this last week. For the last few years we have gone skiing in the Ukraine with several friends families - and another family was thinking of coming along, but wanted to get a feel of what they were letting themselves in for.
I decided to use this as the excuse to waste a few hours!
Turns out to be very simple. In essence you need to:
1. Convert the photos to an AVI file; and
2. Convert the AVI to DVD standard.
Assuming you are using Windows:
Step 1 can be achieved via Picasa. This is a Google freebie - under Create > Movie.
Step 2 can be done via a number of packages, but there can be issues. The one I ended up using was FAVC, another freebie.
Haven't done any playing with this w.r.t. sound.
Picasa does a nice job of starting with the main photo and then zooming in, so you don't just get a static picture.
You can introduce JPEGs with commentary, rather than caption the photos.
Looks very nice via the DVD5 -> Plasma.
--and the next set of volunteers has enroled to join us this year!
Martin
However, one thing I'd meant to do for the last couple of years was work out how to put my digital photos onto DVD to share with friends & family.
Had a need to do this last week. For the last few years we have gone skiing in the Ukraine with several friends families - and another family was thinking of coming along, but wanted to get a feel of what they were letting themselves in for.
I decided to use this as the excuse to waste a few hours!
Turns out to be very simple. In essence you need to:
1. Convert the photos to an AVI file; and
2. Convert the AVI to DVD standard.
Assuming you are using Windows:
Step 1 can be achieved via Picasa. This is a Google freebie - under Create > Movie.
Step 2 can be done via a number of packages, but there can be issues. The one I ended up using was FAVC, another freebie.
Haven't done any playing with this w.r.t. sound.
Picasa does a nice job of starting with the main photo and then zooming in, so you don't just get a static picture.
You can introduce JPEGs with commentary, rather than caption the photos.
Looks very nice via the DVD5 -> Plasma.
--and the next set of volunteers has enroled to join us this year!
Martin