How to burn DVD

[thietpas]

I love Photoshop Elements 5.0 but I must be doing something wrong. I put together a slide show with music and I can't burn it to a DVD. I gives me the command to insert a CD-R disk (it rejects a DVD-R disk. It then goes through the whole process and buns a disk that can't be played on my TV only on my computer. What am I doing wrong.
Thanks,
Tom

[ATR]

With just Photoshop Elements 5.0 alone you cannot produce a DVD-VIDEO. You need additional software. What you can produce (and probably are) is a VCD (video CD = your slideshow in VCD format on a CD disc). This product is of lesser quality than a DVD-VIDEO.

I am surprised that you missed this very recent Thread that says it all again....

http://www.photoshopelementsuser.com/forum/showthread.php?t=30460

Any questions, please post again.

ATR

[thietpas]

I put together a slide show in PSE5 and I tried to use NERO to put it on a DVD but with so many options I am lost.
Please help a brother out, thanks,
"T"

[ATR]

"T"

The first thing that you are going to do is create your slideshow in Photoshop Elements 5.0. When you get finished, you go to Output. Since you do not have Premiere Elements 3.0, this is what you are going to do.

Select Output in the Options Bar at the top of the interface.
Where is says "What would you like to do with your slide show?", dot "Movie File (.wmv).
Where it says File Settings/Slide Side, make sure that reads DVD NTSC (720 x 480) if you are in the USA, otherwise check out if you are in a DVD PAL location.
Then click OK. You are going to name/save the wmv slideshow written (maybe save to Desktop or My Video, just make sure you name it so that you will be able to find it).

Open the Nero Vision Application of the Nero software.
The interface that opens will ask "What do you want to do?"
Select Make DVD and then DVD-VIDEO and follow the instructions given.

This is the catch. You have to have the Nero DVD Plugin in order to do this. When you see the "What do you want to do?" list, if it starts with Make CD
and you do not see Make DVD in the list, we have a problem. Full versions of Nero usually have this DVD Plugin. The Nero that comes bundled with DVD burners may not. It is the manufacturer of the burner who says yes or no to that.

If all goes well, you will be burning your wmv slideshow to DVD format on a DVD disc. Just make sure that your TV/DVD player supports the disc type (DVD-R, DVD+R, etc.)

Let me know what happens and/or you need further details.

Do not give up.

ATR

[Samson]

"If all goes well, you will be burning your wmv slideshow to DVD format on a DVD disc. Just make sure that your TV/DVD player supports the disc type (DVD-R, DVD+R, etc.)"

Huh? He can burn a .wmv file to a DVD-R to play back on his computer but to produce a NTSC DVD he will need to burn a mpeg1 or mpeg2 file.

[Barb O]

Samson,

ATR's instructions starting with

"Select Make DVD and then DVD-VIDEO and follow the instructions given."

are giving the steps to use the wmv file produced by Photoshop Elements as the input to a program which will encode to MPEG-2 and do all the other preparation for the Video DVD format. Other people have done this successfully when they have a variation of Nero which includes all the necessary components. And ATR's instructions include how to check for those necessary components. So it seems good to me.

[Samson]

.wmv is a low resolution/compressed format. To re-encode to a high resolution format is an unnecessary and quality losing step. The user should output the slide show directly to mpeg2 and burn a DVD from that. I'm sure that people have been successful in producing a DVD using ATRs method, but this is not the method that will yield the best results; that's what I was trying to say. :)

Here's sample of what I'm attempting to convey:

Slide show using .wmv (http://myfavoritevideoclips.com/potluck/disneyland2007.wmv)

30 second clip of .mpg file (http://myfavoritevideoclips.com/potluck/disney2007.mpg) (Will need to d/l to view)

[ATR]

Samson

The instructions given for using Nero are DEFINITELY not for just putting a .wmv file as .wmv format on a DVD disc. With the route described, you are taking your slideshow in .wmv, and with Nero Vision DVD-VIDEO plugin you are producing your slideshow in a DVD-VIDEO format on a DVD disc. Providing that your TV/DVD player supports the DVD disc type (DVD-R, etc) you have selected, you should have playback on your associated TV.

Remember that my response was directed at a user who apparently has only Photoshop Elements 5, but does have Nero software (hopefully with the DVD plugin):
1. You cannot output the Photoshop Elements slideshow from Photoshop Elements as mpeg. You can do as suggested in my previous post or send to Premiere Elements. The user does not have Premiere Elements. So Nero with the DVD plugin was IT.

Integration of Photoshop Elements 5 with Premiere Elements 3 would allow the user to bypass the .wmv by using the Photoshop Elements 5 option of Send to Premiere Elements (what I call the "as is" route).

I am not sure if you have used Nero. Nero has several applications within its program, one of them being Nero Vision which was suggested for the task.

ATR