DVD's

[rockabilly]

:(Hi folks. My first time on the forum.

I am using Photoshop elements 4. Some months age I created a slide show of my holidays and burnt the slide show to a DVD - no problems.
Last week I transfered photos from my canon 350 into elements and also some from the wife's camera small canon digital camera all photo's were in the jpeg file. I made a slid show and when I came to burn the DVD box came up showing 'incompatable media, please insert a cd-r or cd-rw into drive'. I have never seen this before, my question is is there something wrong with the drive or am I doing something wrong - please help. :mad:

[Kabeeo]

I had a similar problem, but the issue was the formatting on the DVD, which was faulty somehow. I bought a new box and they worked fine. Don't know if that helps.

[JEGavlas]

:when I came to burn the DVD box came up showing 'incompatable media, please insert a cd-r or cd-rw into drive'. :mad:

You never said what kind of drive you had. If you drive is a (sony?) DVD+/- I would suggest you try a DVD+. I had similar problems with a Sony. I was very frustrated for about a month until I tried a DVD+ and have had no problems since. CD- work okay but DVD- failed eight out of ten times.

[ATR]

Rockabilly

Please clarify.

You say you have Photoshop Elements 4 where you created a slideshow and burned it to DVD.

How? And what did you think that you were producing, VCD, wmv on a DVD disc, DVD-VIDEO, other? Where did you play that and where do you want to play this newly created slideshow?

If you have only Photoshop Elements 4.0, these are the possibilities as I see them:
1. You created your slideshow and outputted it in VCD format on a CD disc all within Photoshop Elements 4.
2. You created your slideshow in Photoshop Elements 4 and outputted it to a .wmv file that you saved on the hard drive and subsequently burned this .wmv file to a DVD disc with software that came with your DVD/CD burner. End result, a wmv file on a DVD disc. Or, you used a software such as Nero with a DVD-VIDEO plug in to burn the wmv with DVD NTSC profile to DVD-VIDEO.
3. You created your slideshow in Photoshop Elements 4, had the wmv with the DVD NTSC profile written, and sent this wmv over to Premiere Elements to produce a DVD-VIDEO

Let us know more details and we will see what we can come up with. Right now, my first guess is that you were in the VCD burn mode in Photoshop Elements 4.

ATR

[rockabilly]

:)Hi Guys.

Thanks for the replies so far. When I did the first dvd I had besides photoshop elements, a nero programme in my PC. Recentley I had a problem with the PC and I uninstalled the nero programme, and I am wondering reading the last post that the dvd was burnt using the nero software. With photopshop elements 4 do you have to have other software to burn slide shows to a dvd? Or should I install Nero again?
I have burnt a slide show to a cd-r but when I play it via the digital TV I get lots of little coloured squares across the picture.

Once again thanks for your help.

Rockabilly.

[ATR]

Yes, Photoshop Elements 4 alone will not give you a DVD Video. You need to integrate it with a version of Premiere Elements OR write the wmv slideshow (make sure your profile (File Size) is set to DVD NTSC or DVD PAL depending on your location, save it, and then burn that to DVD-VIDEO with a software such as Nero that has the DVD-VIDEO plug in.

What you can produce with only Photoshop Elements 4 is your slideshow in the VCD format on a CD disc (lesser quality than DVD-VIDEO).

What profile did you use for the writing of the VCD? What went into your slideshow, just photos and what were the pixels dimensions which can be verified by taking a photo into Photoshop Elements Editor, Image Size dialog.

ATR

[Joe M]

I use a free program called DVD Flick to burn DVD's that play great on my player. It can take quite awhile to finish but it's easy to use and the finished product looks great.

[rockabilly]

:) Hi Guys.

With all your answers I now realise where I went wrong. I will install Nero again and use that to burn the DVD.

Thanks to you all for such quick responses and your help is much apreciated.

:)Cheers
Rockabilly.

[scurtis623]

Yes, Photoshop Elements 4 alone will not give you a DVD Video. You need to integrate it with a version of Premiere Elements OR write the wmv slideshow (make sure your profile (File Size) is set to DVD NTSC or DVD PAL depending on your location, save it, and then burn that to DVD-VIDEO with a software such as Nero that has the DVD-VIDEO plug in.

What you can produce with only Photoshop Elements 4 is your slideshow in the VCD format on a CD disc (lesser quality than DVD-VIDEO).

What profile did you use for the writing of the VCD? What went into your slideshow, just photos and what were the pixels dimensions which can be verified by taking a photo into Photoshop Elements Editor, Image Size dialog.

ATR

Looks like burning a VCD with PE 5 is not possible. I don't have the premire 4 or whatever. I do have Roxio Easy CD burner, but where do I find the slide show I created in PE, looks like it was saved as .wmv and there is no option to find that and burn it to a DVD or CD?
HELP...
Shirley