Usually after a vacation it takes me a while until I have all the footage and the pictures ready for viewing. Sometimes I just leave the footage there and I come back to it later or much later. So since I just was in Peru I wanted to process the footage from my Sanyo FH1. I have like 1500 photos and 4 hours of footage that I want to put on DVDs. So the first problem I ran into is the fact that I have no BluRay burner and all of my footage is 720p and 1080p. Too large for regular DVDs. So until then I decided to make a slide-show of the photos I have and send it to family and friends. I wanted to create the slide-show as a regular DVD to play it on the TV. I mean everyone has a DVD in their house, and they comfortably view it as a movie.
So the first try was Adobe DVD Encore, has all kinds of bells and whistles but when I tried to import the 15 hundred photos it took a long time. And I just preempted the task (Task manager End Task) ‘cause it was too much. Then I tried Adobe premiere to make the actual slide-show and the background sound. Premiere worked better but when I exported to a DV format the quality was terrible. So I tried Ulead Movie factory.
Ulead DVD Movie factory made it much easier for me to make my slide-show and it was quick about it. It also enables you to export the MPEG2 video as NTSC or as PAL, and then you can burn it with Adobe Encore or other burning software, or you just export as an ISO or burn it directly with Ulead. The quality was great. Also for 15 hundred pics it take you a while to make transitions pans and zooms but the DVD factory has that built in and it randomizes the movements, which is pretty cool.Now when it comes to the fine tuning is where this app is lacking. But it is really good because on high volumes no one goes through each transition pan and zoom. So it really did a good job.
