Is there any way that I can put video and photos onto one DVD?

Question

I am doing this for my aunt, she told me that she wanted to have video playback and photos on one disc in a sequential form. I've been running this over in my mind and all I can come up with is that you would have to go back to the menu and click on either one of the titles to play either the photos or the movies.

anyway, is it even possible to have video and photos on a single disc dvd or video cd? Any response would be great, thanks!!!!

~Zach

Answer 1

Yes anything with photos and videos are possible, you will need a n editor to do it for you. have a look at this one

Answer 2

Sure.. there are several ways.

One is, as you're probably thinking, using DVD "menus" as the photos. This is possible, though you want to use the sort that's timed, then automatically branches to the next. But that will get cumbersome in most DVD apps.

Another way... some DVD authoring programs have some extra intelligence to automate this process. Sony's DVD Architect, for example, can automatically create a video "slide show".

There are also a number of dedicated "video slideshow" programs out on the market. Most of these make it easy to do a photo montage, which they'll then render as normal DVD video, not a series of still images. I don't use these, but there are quite a few of them.

My solution is using my primary video editor (Sony Vegas) to create a photo montage. In Vegas (and presumably other NLEs), you can specify the time automatically allotted to each photo dropped onto a timeline. If you do just that, you'll have a photo slideshow ready to render in a couple of minutes (render to MPEG-2 to create a standard DVD).

Of course, it gets more interesting as you move away from the notion of a fixed slide-show... this isn't a projector full of slides. Digital camera images are much higher resolution than video (even HD), so you can "do stuff" with the photos. It's a far more interesing slide-show to use creative transitions, to pan, zoom, or rotate the photos, etc. This is the kind of thing that those dedicated slide-show apps can do, but if you already know the video editor, use it.

Also, when the slide-show is relatively short, I usually render it twice. Render it as a DVD, to play on any old player, but I also render it in high-defintion, WMV-HD or AVCHD. These formats will play on computers, advanced DVD players, Blu-Ray players (at least in the latter case), and games machines (WMV on the X-Box, AVCHD on the PS3).