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

On a mac you just open iDVD then select from the photos in your iPhoto library and choose some music if you so wish from the iTunes library.

Mind you in a rush I have just banged jpegs onto a DVD and to date every DVD player I put it in find them no problem.

There might be something as simple on Windows or Linux, if so please let me know!

In Picasa I think it is just easier to click the "Create a Gift CD" button?