[eyeline]

tried to make a slide show DVD with 2000 photos.
Draged my photo folder onto my opened Toast where it automatically
put them into folders of 99 each.fine
Encoding started and got to about folder 12 and crashed. I tried it 3 more times and then itried it with 11 folders of 99 photos each and it worked ,But looked like crap.Blurry , fuzzy whatever you like but not stunning Quality.Photos taken on a 8.1 Megapixal camera.Latest Mac Pro tower with 2gig of memory.
Any ideas?

[tsantee]

If Toast has trouble reading or scaling an image in creating a slide show it ungracefully crashes. You can find which slide caused the problem by examining the last successful image in the Roxio Converted Items folder. The next one had the problem.

As for the picture quality, Toast is resampling the image at 640x480 resolution. This extreme downsampling with Toast from very high-resolution images is ugly. The trick to good-quality slide shows is to first export your images to 640x480 using a photo editing application and then drag those to Toast.

Another thing to note: If you are looking at a DVD slide show on your Mac change the view in DVD Player to Normal size. Otherwise DVD Player is blowing up the size of the image to fill the screen which obviously creates a fuzzy blurry image. You need to watch DVD slide shows on a TV to see them at their best.

[eyeline]

tsantee, on Oct 29 2006, 07:56 AM, said:

If Toast has trouble reading or scaling an image in creating a slide show it ungracefully crashes. You can find which slide caused the problem by examining the last successful image in the Roxio Converted Items folder. The next one had the problem.

As for the picture quality, Toast is resampling the image at 640x480 resolution. This extreme downsampling with Toast from very high-resolution images is ugly. The trick to good-quality slide shows is to first export your images to 640x480 using a photo editing application and then drag those to Toast.

Another thing to note: If you are looking at a DVD slide show on your Mac change the view in DVD Player to Normal size. Otherwise DVD Player is blowing up the size of the image to fill the screen which obviously creates a fuzzy blurry image. You need to watch DVD slide shows on a TV to see them at their best.

[eyeline]

Thanks very much, will try your ideas next weekend

Cheers eyeline