On May 8, 12:50 am, Bobdddds wrote:

You can use Wondershare DVD Slideshow Builder which is very powerful
and very popular now, many friends and I like it very much. It's very
easy to create a customized DVD slideshow with photos and videos, and
to add music, transitions, and cool pan/zoom effects and make
beautiful DVD menus. Also, you can create .mp4, .wmv, .avi, .3gp
movies from videos in other formats for our iPod, Zune and 3GP Cell
Phones, Youtube .etc.

To be important, it has great photo and video editing function that
can meet all our needs. For example, you can perfect your photos with
attractive frames, special mask effects, and rich Cliparts, Wordarts
or Text. And it is easy to crop music to sync with slideshow. You can
use the video edit function to trim the video, add the caption and
frame to the video, and change the original audio with your favorite
music, etc.

You can download it free here
http://www.photo-to-dvd.com/dvd-slid...lder.php?sid=8
And a specific tutorial is here
http://www.photo2vcd.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1452
Some useful information such as tips to make slideshow awesome is
hehttp://www.photo-to-dvd.com/other/po...ld-memory.html

If you have a legal version of windows XP, you can get a free program,
Microsoft Photo Story 3 for Windows XP. It can do some basic
functions. It can let you do everything windows movie maker does but
with photos.http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/u...aphy/photostor...

Hope this helps!

Bobdddds,

Thanks for your input. I'm on a Mac system, using iMovie & am happy
with it. It was a steep learning curve (for me), at first, but after
making one DVD, I can make more fairly easily, now that I understand
the software & that can be said about any software.

Actually, my difficulty relates to presenting my content, and Hick
helped me a lot. It's always a case of being sensitive to your
audience & I've had to separate what interests *me* from what my
audience will find interesting.

TheBreeze, following this, has some good observations.

David