I want to burn dvd w/jpegs plus music

I would like to burn a dvd that can be played on a regular dvd player and viewed on a TV. It would be made of 300 jpeg images (photos) plus a soundtrack made up of a series of cuts from various CDs. The images could be in a simple slide-show say 2 seconds per image. But could the time per image be varied, say 2 seconds for one and 4 seconds for others? I have NERO 4 and a trial version of Ashampoo Burning Studio 6. I'm willing to buy new software to complete this project. Any suggestions? Thanks, Rob

 

Not to confuse my question above, but it also occurs to me that maybe Powerpoint may also work, but I would need to run presentation from a laptop, not a dvd player? I don't own powerpoint, and have never done a powerpoint presentation, and this would only be an option if burning a DVD is impossible. Thanks, Rob

 

Thanks Pete. Do you happen to know if this can also be done with Nero 6? Some reviewers say that Nero 7 is too much. There are a lot of places selling versions of Nero 6 for small dollars. Thanks, Rob

 

PhotoDex, ProShow Gold is the Program for you.

 

Nero 7

After reading all the incredibly negative reviews on Amazon about Nero 7, I decided to try it anyway. I believe that it will work eventually, but I have had the following experiences: 1. Frequent crashes, and freeze-ups. This requires frequent re-booting. I feel like I'm back to Windows 98. 2. I'm using 10 megapixel images. They don't look as sharp on the big tv screen as I thought they should, but that may be due to the dvd medium and my TV ( a 57" Hitachi 57F510 projection tv with "superfine" picture quality and 1280 lines of horizontal resolution.) Nero 7 reduces these images to, speaking from memory, 480 x 720 pixels ? Is there a way to increase this resolution? 3. I have about 300 images. The program will only allow 99 images in a chapter. Why is this? Is there a way to include all 300 in one slide show? The program forces you to run four slide shows back to back. The sound track can't be continuous through these 4 shows. It gets chopped at the end of each chapter.
You need to make 4 soundtracks separately, one for each chapter. This is after one day...Am I missing something?

So instead of one continuous slide show, with one continuous sound track, you get four slide shows, with a sound track that either has gaps of silence or tracks that get chopped off at the end of each chapter. The program has an option to vary the time the slides are on screen so that they match the music, but now you have to do that 4 times instead of just once.

It seems like such a simple problem, Make a high quality, high resolution slide show with cd quality sound track. I can probably eventually do this with Nero 7, but it sure isn't simple or obvious or BUG-FREE.