Bobster Loc: Thousand Oaks, CA

I have created a slide show from 377 pictures taken on a recent trip. How do I record it on a dvd? I edited the photos in Lightroom. How should I save it and put it on a dvd so that i can show it on a television.?

DirtFarmer Loc: Escaped from the NYC area, back to MA

Irfanview can produce a slide show but it’s Windows only and the slide interval is constant.

It produces an executable file that you can just copy onto a dvd

National Park

An easier way to show them on a TV is to simply copy the photos onto a flash drive and then plug the flash drive into a USB port on the TV. If you have organized the slide show so that the photos are out of the order in which they were taken, you may have to rename the photos so they show in the order you want.

By the way, 377 photos seems like a lot of photos for a slide show. I start to lose my audiences after 125-150 photos (although perhaps that has more to do with the quality of my photos rather than the number of my photos!).

CHG_CANON Loc: the Windy City

Many TVs will run a slide show of images by default, via a USB drive (aka thumbdrive). Just export the edited image files, either to a work folder or directly onto the USB drive. My experience is it helps to give the images a user-defined name and counter, like IMG0001, 002, 003 and so forth. The LR export gives you filename 'models' and a counter to have the file names dynamically generated. If you sort the images by capture-time when selecting which files to export, they'll output to these named "counted" files.

Think about your audience and their time / interest. Is nearly 400 images an unreasonable amount? Should you employ a more critical "editor's eye" to reduce that amount?

DirtFarmer Loc: Escaped from the NYC area, back to MA

I have a slide show around 300-400 family photos. Nobody looks at it all the way through. It’s just background.

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

TV can be set to display them, like at a gathering/party....

bsprague Loc: Lacey, WA, USA

Stay away from DVDs. The DVD specifications were made when we had tube TVs. Now our typical TVs are flat and likely to be "4K" or at least "HD".

Lightroom Classic has a Slideshow module that works well to create your slideshow and output it to a video file (*.mp4) that will play on TVs. It is limited to "HD". That video file can be copied to anything. Some optical drives and some BluRay players will play video files if the disc is formatted as a DVD data disk. Much easier is to put the video file slide show on a UDB thumbdrive as already mentioned.

If you have a "4K" TV, and want to take advantage of it, there are at least two choices. One is to use Lightroom to output highquality JPGs sized to 3640x2160. Copy them to a thumbdrive, plug it into your TV and play them. Order them sequentially like Paul describes. The other way is to use any of the current video editing programs and build a 4K video project. You can add voice, music, titles, etc. Then output an MP4, 4K video file to a thumbdrive. Depending on your gear, you might be able to use a DVD data disk.

CHG_CANON Loc: the Windy City

My experience with 4K TV, Lightroom and 'slideshows' includes a few other helpful ideas:

a, file renaming, as mentioned above
b, resizing images to 3640-pixel on the long side @ 100% JPEG quality
c, using only landscape images to 'fill' the screen, use a metadata filter on aspect ratio to kick (remove) the portrait candidates
d, create a LR Export User Preset to make this a repeatable process

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

Only if Standard Definition is <totally> unacceptable.......

Terry in Indiana Loc: rural Indiana

I just made a slide show of 109 images on the Lightroom module. Easily exported to a USB drive as a video file if you want, but I also copied it onto my laptop. I can easily mirror my laptop screen to the smart TV (using settings on the laptop, which will "find" the TV) and then whatever is on my laptop screen is on the TV. That was the easiest to do, since your photos are already in Lightroom and you can use those high resolution photos. Play the slide show on your laptop and it also shows up on your TV screen. It was easy to do, even for this tech-challenged gal (me!)!

bsprague Loc: Lacey, WA, USA

Agreed! If you do that, you can put the images on your TV and do like what we used to do with a Kodak Carrousel projector using the TV remote.

Why do you prefer that instead of a 4K video?

Architect1776 Loc: In my mind

That's about 1.5 hours at 15 seconds each which is really fast.
Most people would go nuts looking at someone else's vacation photos that long.
Perhaps 20-30 at most that have discussion value.
If they are of places seen by everyone dozens of times everywhere what value?
If as background just to have running for no reason to run most TV can do that.
Most people would go

sodapop Loc: Bel Air, MD

Burn Aware is a program that lets you burn DVDs. The typical burnable DVD holds 90 minutes of video/slideshow. and printable.Very easy to do

timbuktutraveler

I personally think it is "overkill" showing that many images.

You viewers will get bored.

I keep my photos to about 150 in in a viewing and never have had a complaint.

burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

DVDs are so 20th century. I still own a DVD burner, but haven't made more than five discs in the last ten years. Making DVDs can be done from some video editors (Final Cut Pro on the Mac has an option for that), but normally, you need a special program to re-format the video to the DVD standards, make a "landing page" or "start page", and add chapter markers. Most of those programs are gone or incompatible with modern operating systems.

If you "just gotta" make a DVD, explore solutions from these folks: https://www.roxio.com/en/

These days, VIDEO is all digital, and all high definition or 4K. DVDs are standard definition (640x480 pixels or 720x480 pixels), which is very low resolution.

YouTube and Vimeo are the modern way to distribute video. You can make a Full HD or even 4K video on your computer, upload it to YouTube, and provide your intended audience with the text link to it. That way, they can watch your show on a smartphone, tablet, computer, or smart TV.

YouTube accounts for personal use are free. Sign up for a Google Account, and create a channel.

To make simple slide show videos, I scale and save all my images to a size of 3840x2160 pixels, which is sized for 4K TV screens. In some instances, this requires "padding the canvas" on the sides of the image with black, gray, color, or whatever.

Once all my images are sized for 4K, I drop them into either iMovie or Final Cut Pro on my Mac. From there, I edit them on the video editor's timeline, adding titles, effects, music, narration, sound effects, or whatever I want. Final step is to export the show to a file compatible with YouTube, and upload it to my personal channel.

The advantage of this workflow is that you can incorporate ANYTHING into a show, including video, audio, stills, text, and graphics. Whatever you use, be sure you have the rights to use it, since Google DOES check for copyright infringements.

NOTE: You do need a RECENT computer to make 4K videos. It needs a fast processor and a fast graphics processor. It needs plenty of memory and storage. Many computers made before 2020 are not powerful enough to process 4K.