free digital imagesBest free software to turn digital images into a slideshow DVD?

Or if there isn't any good free software what's the best to use (other than Adobe Premier Pro)?
You could try following software for some of your request features:
Virtual dub
A powerful freeware video editor with lots of features, including a choice of compression codecs, splitting, addition of audio racks.

AviDemux
A free multi-format, cross-platform video editor designed for simple cutting-split-merge, filtering and encoding tasks. It supports any file types, including AVI, DVD compatible MPEG files,MP4 and ASF, using a variety of codecs.
For more advanced and professional but still user friendly software, i will recommend DVD Slideshow Builder.It's commercial software but worthy.Everything is laid out in an easy free digital imagesto follow step by step instruction.

I think PhotoDVD is probably the best for ease of use.

You can try VSO PhotoDVD – Which is the easiest photo slideshow software to create beautiful DVD slideshows of your digital pictures. Share your digital pictures in an original way by watching them on TV with any DVD player. With PhotoDVD create movie like DVDs of your pictures and music, with a menu complete with chapters, audio and subtitles selection.
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I hope this may help you.
If you want to make a digital images slideshow DVD that can be played well on dvd player, you need to use a right software to convert and burn your digital images to slideshow video free digital imagesDVD that can be played well on dvd player, you can try RZ DVD Creator, it can convert and burn any digital images or videos to slideshow video DVD, and it can add any formats musics as images background musics, and can burn the made slideshow video DVD to any dvd disc(DVD+R, DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD+RW, DVD-R DL, DVD+R DL, etc), easy to use, run RZ DVD Creator, directly drag and drop all digital images into the software, insert a dvd disc and press "START" button, you will get a slideshow video DVD from your digital images, and you can play the burned slideshow video DVD on DVD player well. You can yahoo or google search RZ DVD Creator and download it, not free, but inexpensive, hope it can help you.