Apple DVD Studio Pro 4 - Manual (Page 113)

Before you can add a slideshow to a DVD project, you must have correctly prepared
slideshow source material.
This chapter covers the following:
• Slideshow File Formats (p. 113)
• Aspect Ratio and Resolution (p. 114)
• Colors (p. 114)
• Audio (p. 114)
Slideshow File Formats
When preparing still images for use in DVD Studio Pro slideshows, most of the same rules
for preparing menu backgrounds apply. These same considerations apply if you intend
to add slides to a track.
DVD Studio Pro lets you use most common image formats in slideshows:
• Photoshop PSD files using the 8-bit RGB mode
Slideshows do not support layer selection, as menus do. The layers visible when the
file was last saved become the visible image of the graphic.
• PICT files
• BMP files
• JPEG files
• QuickTime image files
• Targa (TGA) format files
• TIFF (TIF) format files
Once a still is imported into DVD Studio Pro and you build the project it is assigned to, it
is converted into an MPEG image and, if necessary, automatically scaled to fit the frame
size defined by the slideshow’s resolution and display mode settings.
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Preparing Slideshow Assets 7