Thanks to all of you who responded to my query. As far as I understand, Adobe Premier is used for actually making the videos, as is iMovie. They do not produce the DVD's. iDVD makes DVD's, but does not do what I need. To try to make the matter clearer, I already know how to add dialog to my vids, as well as background music. Many programs do that. The problem I have, is that I want to maintain the video and the accompanying music, but be able to add voice overs that can be turned on and off. This way, if a viewer wants to watch the DVD without hearing the explanations, he/she can turn that part off and enjoy the slideshow without all the gab. If they want to know more specifically what they are looking at, they can turn the voice overs back on. A perfect example of this is the Seinfeld set. You can watch each episode as it appeared on television some twenty years ago, or you can turn on the dialog to hear how each one was made. That's what I would like to do.

M

Hi Mel,
I use Cyberlinks Power Director to combine photos video clips with title pages and transitions into the video section. Music can be added and narration with a microphone input.
When rendered into a combined file you can select the output type including a DVD.
I usually make a smaller digital file for a USB flash drive which plugs into the TV for viewing.
The USB drive will hold several videos depending on their size. I’ve used this software for several years now and it works well to show off our vacation photos instead of albums.
John

Hello Everyone.

My name is Mel. I'm a fairly experienced photographer, and a very experienced traveler, having literally been (nearly) all over the world over the last fifty or so years. I've been taking 35mm slide photos since the early '60's ... I'm an old guy ... and turned to digital when they first came out with 5mp cameras in the early 2000's. I turn my photos into video slideshows which can easily be viewed on a television screen with an ordinary DVD player. This makes them very convenient to watch, and easy to distribute to those friends and relatives who are interested in seeing them. Many of the commercial DVD's I've viewed have an accompanying commentary, usually voiced by the director, a participant in the video, or an historian, which can be turned on an off by the viewer. I was wondering if any of you out there knew of any program for the Macintosh that would allow me to make such a DVD; one that would let me add commentary that could be turned on and off as the viewer wills it

Thanks very much in advance for any help you can give in this matter. Eventually I intend to post some of my travel pics here.

M

hassighedgehog Wrote: …."Just turning the mute button on and off with the Monitor/TV remote should do this."

No it will not, it appears a large portion of you who are commenting are not reading what he is writing or are not comprehending what he is asking.

He knows how to create a slide show with music, he wants to create a slide show with music BUT... add a commentary on an additional track, that can be turned on or off by the viewer at their discretion, but still leave the audio of the music playing. Simply hitting a mute button turns all the sound off and that is not what he wants to do, that is simple. Hopefully everyone else will read what the OP has already written and rewritten.