Creating a DVD Slide Show

[Huntn]

The Goal: Create a DVD that will play as a slide show on a computer or on a TV via a DVD/Blue Ray Player for my Dad who is basically computer illiterate.

It's been a long time since I've messed with Slide shows on DVDs and it was using iDVD which is no longer around. On my Mac I understand that I can use Keynote to create a family photo slide show, is this correct? How involved is that?

And secondly is it as simple as burning a Keynote Presentation to DVD, and would this play automatically from the DVD on the computer or DVD/BluRay player for the TV or is a third party software required?

Thirdly, since Big Sur is in my future and if third party software is required, Big Sur compatibility would be nice and OH BTW no ******* subscription for such software. I saw a big name brand want a 1 year subscription for their DVD burning software the bastards! 👀
Thanks!

 

[BrianBaughn]

Keynote will export a movie at 720p or 1080p. To burn to a Blueray disk you'd have to have a Blueray burner. A regular DVD burner will make the old-fashioned NTSC-type low resolution (480p) movie. You can use an app like the free "Burn" for that.

Your Dad's TV might play an HD movie from a file on a USB stick if you want to consider that. Some BR players have a USB port, too. Would look a LOT better.

 

[Dave Braine]

You can also use iMovie to make your slideshow, and then Share/Export as a movie file. Probably a bit quicker and easier than Keynote.