Slide Shows

[Bob S]

I have put together five slide shows using PSE5 and Vista. I was not able to burn the DVD's using PSE5 so I used Vista's burner. I seem to have three different types of slide shows. Three of the slide show thumbnails have a small icon in the upper right hand corner indicating that they are Slide Show Creations, another has an icon indicating a Video and the last has an icon indicating a Creation. All five seem equally good. What is the difference?

Bob S

[ATR]

Bob S,

OK, you have Photoshop Elements 5 and you have created slideshows.

If your Organizer thumbnails indicate "Creations", that means all you did was save the slideshow as a creation just in the Organizer (not saved to hard drive). And, you can get at it there to do further edits. To get that to a disc, you will need to output it to some thing: Save As File (Movie File .wmv) or Burn to Disc or Send to TV or Send to Premiere Elements. Since you do not have Window XP Media Center Edition and Premiere Elements, forget about the last two.

If you say that you have a thumbnail in the Organizer with a video icon, this is how I think you got it there. You created your slideshow, outputted it to Save As File (.wmv), saved the .wmv to the hard drive (Organizer thumbnail with video icon) as well as save the original creation to the Organizer (Organizer thumbnail with creation icon).

Keep in mind: creation, additional edits in Photoshop Elements slideshow editor, yes whereas wmv, no.

With your present setup, you can create a VCD, not a DVD-VIDEO, within Photoshop Elements. BUT, you say that you have Vista. Certain editions of Vista have Windows Movie Maker as well as the Windows DVD Maker. So, what you will do is burn (or publish, whatever the wording in Vista) the wmv slideshow to DVD-VIDEO format on a DVD disc using Vista's Windows DVD Maker.

Cautions: Before you start the writing of the wmv, make sure that you have selected the appropriate File Size (ex. DVD NTSC for DVD-VIDEO for playback USA). Do not have your photo pixel dimensions exceed 1000 x 750 pixels.

Let me know if any of the above helped.

ATR

[Bob S]

Yes you helped. If the icon on the thumbnail is a creation, then it has not been saved onto the hard drive and if the icon on the thumbnail is Slide Show Creation then it is the saved version of the slide show. Is that correct?

If I go to File>Open Creation I should find all my slide show creations that I am still able to edit, add photos, etc. Correct?

If I save a slide show to the HD then there should be two thumbnails in My Organizer, one should be the creation and the other should be the slide show that I saved to the hard drive. Correct?

Bob S

[ATR]

Bob S

Yes to the last two.

For the first one, I would make this adjust in wording...
You say "the thumbnail Slide Show Creation then it is the saved version of the slideshow."
To avoid confusion with the word "Creation", I would suggest.....
"the thumbnail with the video icon is the wmv version of the Slide Show that was created and saved to the hard drive"

ATR