I was asked by Phil to create a DVD slideshow from a load of photos he had to show at his wedding. Thing is because there was a 1000 of them we wanted them in a random order and didn’t want to rename them all or change the order by hand.
Before anyone starts commenting saying “You can’t have a random slideshow on a DVD. Once it’s burned it’s fixed”. I know. What we wanted was to not have them in the order they were taken in but rename the file names so they play in the DVD the same every time but in a apparently random sequence.
After A LOT of Googling I eventually gave in that I wouldn’t be able to do it using either iDVD or iPhoto as for one reason or another, they wouldn’t do it in the current versions. Luckily this forum has a solution using terminal if you’re not squeamish. Since I’m from a programming background it was no problem and works like a charm. Just follow the steps exactly and you’ll be fine.