burning slide show

[john227]

Hi all.
I have made a collection so it is in order, created the slide show and now I am trying to burn it to VCD or DVD. I use The Create command and after it "makes" a .wmv (which takes about an hour), the wmv dialog box disappears and then nothing at all happens.
I have an AMD athalon 64 proccessor 1G of RAM, and am using PSE4. I also am using Scot Kelby's "Photoshop Elements 4" book. I have other burning software but I can't find the saved slide show. These are scanned slides and there are about 500 of them. I hate to have to lose the time I put into editing them into a chronological order.
Any help at all would be appreciated before I intoduce my computer to "Mr. Hammer"
Thanks so much,
John

[efarnstrom]

Hi,
If you do a search of this forum you will get nearly 160 hits regarding this subject. They are too extensive to repeat here, but full of suggestions to help you out.

[cats4jan]

Do you remember what you named your wmv?

Do a search on your computer for it.

start> search

enter parameters into the search box to lessen where it will search - i.e., the date

A list will propogate of all the things that fit your search parameters.

You only need a word or two to find your file - but, obviously, the more words you know, the better

[n692bc]

I just did a quick one in PSE5 and the default location it picked is:

desktop\my documents\my videos

otherwise as they said do a search for *.wmv

Good luck
Ross

PS: here is the link from my computer:
C:\Documents and Settings\Owner.Ross\My Documents\My Videos

[john227]

Thanks for all your help. I think I will have to scan as the file name doesn't come up with a wmv.
I think the forum search will help also.
John

[cats4jan]

Could you have saved the file as a "prel"

Do a search for all prel's

prel is the format slideshows are saved in before you make a wmv out of them.