I got the visitation music put on d.v.d..
now I need to put 18-20 photos on a d,v,d, as well
.

anyone have any Idea how many photos will fit on a d.v.d. ?

would 18 pictures at 15 seconds per picture work on a single d.v.d?

About 4.7 G worth.

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Originally posted by bendable:
I got the visitation music put on d.v.d..
now I need to put 18-20 photos on a d,v,d, as well
.

anyone have any Idea how many photos will fit on a d.v.d. ?

would 18 pictures at 15 seconds per picture work on a single d.v.d?

The answer is it depends on the size of the pictures. But 18 pictures at 15 seconds each should easily clear the limits of the CD under normal picture sizes, i.e. JPEGS. If you get into TIFF files that may be different depending on their size but even then there is a lot of space on a CD.

Leo,
the discs i sent are 700MB (0.70 GB) CDR format unless you transferred them to a DVD

image file weights can vary widely but "typical" JPGs would be in the 3-10 MB each range so obviously no need to use a DVD for 18 images

I forgot about picture size,
these pictures will all be 35mm standard size pictures.

if I need them blown up 4x or 5 x to be viewed on a 42 inch tv screen , then H m m m m m m.

I may have to re-think this

Short answer is yes.

The long answer is that there are more than one method of putting photos onto a DVD, but all of them will easily put several dozen, if not several hundred photos onto a standard DVD.

How the pictures are viewed are going to dictate the quality and format of the slideshow. For playing through a DVD player that's hooked up to a TV, you are essentially making a movie with 15 second clips of still video at standard definition. Standard definition is 480 pixels high, which is minuscule by today's standards. However, that's the maximum that a movie played through a DVD player can handle. On a DVD player, you can easily put over an hour of video at standard definition.

If you can put the slideshow onto a Blu-Ray Disc and play it through a Blu-Ray player onto a High Definition television, computer monitor, or projector, then the video you make can have a maximum resolution of 1080 pixels tall. Much better than 480, but only middling in quality by today's standards.

If you can put the slideshow onto a USB stick and can play it through a computer or a 4K capable device and you have a screen/monitor/projector that can handle higher resolution than 1080, then you can make the video whatever size you want, up to 2160 pixels high.

All of the above refers to slideshows that have been previously assembled and "rendered" into a continuous video. When you render out a video like that, you create a single large file that will hopefully fit onto the DVD/Blu-Ray/USB stick that you have. The size of the DVD/Blu-Ray/USB stick container is the limitation on your length of video--but you should easily get an hour of video on any size DVD/Blu-Ray.

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Originally posted by FALna45:
Leo,
the discs i sent are 700MB (0.70 GB) CDR format unless you transferred them to a DVD

image file weights can vary widely but "typical" JPGs would be in the 3-10 MB each range so obviously no need to use a DVD for 18 images

I thought that they could play the music on one machine and play the dvd of the pictures on another machine.

( would this be considered ass backwards? )

If you've got a 42 inch TV, and it's fairly new, there's a good chance that it will support 1080p resolution. But a DVD player will only be able to fill that screen with a blurry picture. Doesn't matter how big the screen is, the DVD will just take it's small 480p resolution image and just blow it up to fill the screen--the result is a blurry picture.

For a 1080 screen, you need to have a device that can make a 1080 image. Your choices are a computer, Blu-Ray player, or a smart device. Very few people have a blu-ray disc burner to make blu-ray discs, so your best choice is to put the video onto a usb stick and find a blu-ray player that will play video off of a USB or find a smart device that will do the same. Some TVs are "smart" and have a USB port that you can plug the USB stick directly.

In sum, making the slideshow into a 1080p video in .MPEG format and putting it onto a USB stick, and then finding a device with a USB port such as a Blu-Ray player, Playstation 3, Roku, or even a TV with a USB port, will likely be the best way to get a slideshow onto a 42" high definition television.

so I need to gather up the photos and haul them in to a "profesional" shop that can make it look nice as a much larger picture?

Leo, if you want to email me the photos and music to my email in my profile, tell me what order you want the photos to be in, and tell me if you want special transitions between the photos or no (for example, fading the photos between photos), I can make the following 3 things for you:

1) a standard definition movie file that you can put onto a DVD and play on a plain ole DVD player,

2) a high definition movie file that you can put onto a USB and play from a computer or a High Definition capable device with a USB port.

3) a high definition movie that I can put onto a private YouTube link and you can just click on it and watch it from whatever device you have.

Bendable,

Every scanner made in the last 15 years can scan a photo of sufficient resolution for a High Definition screen.

If you don't have a scanner and plan on just getting a CD made from the film negatives at the pharmacy, then those photos will also be plenty high resolution as well.

The resolution of the photos is rarely the bottle-neck. The bottle neck is usually the device that you plan to play it on.

sounds like I need to telephone the funeral home , to find out what they think I should be doing , so that it works on their machinery

the funeral homes tv is not a Smart tv, so it does not have a flash drive ,

if the photos get put on a flash drive, I need to provide a laptop that accepts a flash drive to hook up to the tv.

they do have a d.v.d. player that connects to the tv though.

Bendable,

Are you envisioning the photos playing on a continuous loop? If so, putting the photos onto a DVD separately, and not as part of a movie, would probably work best for the funeral home.

yes, a continuous loop

May I contact you at a later date to possibly do this for me?

If the 42 inch TV has an HDMI input, you should be able to simply do a slideshow on a laptop or tablet, with music, and connect the computer to the TV with an HDMI cable. I don't see any need for a CD or DVD player.

her tv is not hdmi compatible.

( it might be time for them to upgrade their equipment)