The photos advance automatically in 5-second increments and can be paused. Each photo plays as a chapter on the disc so you can use the player's chapter skip function on the remote control to advance or go back. Toast can put up to 99 (or maybe 98) photos in each of up to 99 (or 98) titles. Drag folders of pictures into the Toast Video window with DVD Video selected as the format. One is called a DVD Slide Show which is the best for convenience and reasonable quality. There are different ways to show photos using a standard video DVD player. So unless you can connect via HDMI a Blu-ray player will only play HD from discs you burn or from media you stream through it. If you connect a Blu-ray player using the component inputs the player will only show 480i video from commercial Blu-ray discs (something the motion picture industry required). I just replaced my WEGA XBR TV with a flat screen two weeks ago, so I know about that TV. The picture on this TV is just great and I would not even think of replacing it until it gives up the ghost. ![]() The TV also has HDMI inputs also but this old player does not have HDMI jacks. It has component video jacks that I use for my old standard DVD player. Could you provide me a short list of Blu-Ray players that support streaming of photos from my Mac? My digital tuner HDTV is a Sony WEGA Trinitron picture tube unit. I will be in the market for a Blu-Ray palyer soon. I will have to try that and see how it goes. I totally forgot about being able to burn from Lightroom. As per your reply if you could look into the "virtual copy" item that would be helpful. If Toast could somehow see the edited pictures ( virtual copy) in Lightroom that would save all that extra work. ![]() Your reply answered that part of my question. I have edited plenty of my photos and would want the edited pictures burnt to CD or DVD. I think it would be best for me to export out of Lightroom to a folder for Toast to use. I do not have a Blu-Ray player at the present time. So you can give it a try yourself and decide if its worth keeping. ![]() Lastly, Roxio has a 30-day refund policy for purchases of its software from its online store. In that case you don't need to burn them to disc unless you want to take the photos elsewhere to play them. If you have a Blu-ray player many of them provide for streaming photos, videos and music from your Mac. If you're having Toast make a DVD slide show in SD or HD then Toast can use the source RAW file (presuming Toast reads that file) and converts it to MPEG 2 or h.264 for that format's slide show. I expect you'd need to convert your photos to JPEG via Lightroom before adding to Toast. If you are making a Data disc to play on your TV then the photos need to be in a format and size that meet the specs of the player. If that's important I can look further into that. At least I think it can see the adjustments in the virtual copy because I know Toast see virtual copies as well as the original file. However, Toast doesn't see any adjustments you made in Lightroom unless you apply those to a virtual copy and import the virtual copy in Toast. From what I can tell Toast will see RAW files (mine are converted to DNG) as well as other formats. Lightroom has to be closed when you open Toast in order for Toast to access the Lightroom catalog. It makes most sense to put the photos you want Toast to use in a collection. Toast 11 can see the collections and the source folders from your Lightroom Catalog. I haven't done that so don't know if those can be read by either a DVD player or a Blu-ray player. I presume you are aware that you can burn CDs and DVDs from within Lightroom 3 itself. Also, either kind of player can play a slide show of photos burned as a data disc as well as a so-called DVD Slide Show so I don't know if that is what you are planning or not. I can't tell from your description whether you plan to play the CD or DVD with a Blu-ray player (and want to burn the photos as an HD Blu-ray disc) or with a standard DVD player.
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