Slide Show

[Lucile Dawson]

I managed to put together a slide show that works very well on my computer. I burned a CD with the show and it was saved as a WMV file. HOwever, the DVD player I need to use to put the show on my TV will only accept WMA files. Is there a way to save a slide show in WMA or JPEG? I can't go out and purchase a new DVD player.

[Wendy]

Hi Lucile ...

... and welcome to the forum :)

I can't help on this one but I am sure that one of the people who make slide shows will be along soon and will try to help you ...

Wendy

[TonyW]

WMA is audio only so that can't be used for slide shows. If your DVD player will handle VCD format CD's Elements will let you burn a VCD from a WMV file although the quality is not the greatest. Alternately you can just put the individual JPG files from the slide show on the CD and let the DVD player run the slide show but it will only be images not audio.

The best solution is to make a DVD of the slide show but you need a DVD burner in the computer and a program that will convert WMV to DVD format video - Elements won't do that itself but a lot of DVD burning programs will (and so will Premier Elements)

A lot of us finish up using a stand-alone slide show program like Proshow Gold which is more capable than any of the above solutions.

Sorry it's so confusing but because there are so many different video formats it gets very messy trying to explain what you can and can't do and different DVD players have different capabilities.

Tony

[Lynn K]

I am having similar troubles. I have been trying all kinds of ways to burn my Photoshop Elements 4.0 slideshow to a DVD that I can watch on tv... I keep getting error messages and crashing and such. I thought it was me... but you say PS4 won't make my DVD for TV??? How does more software help??

[huntress]

I've made a slide show using Roxio software. It was something that came bundled with something else. In the end it worked quite well but it was very quirky. I was hoping Elements would do the same thing and it is a bit disappointing that it can't. I hope they change that for later versions. I'd prefer to be able to play them on the TV vrs the computer. It is nice to get recommendations like the Proshow Gold. I'd like to here about more alternatives. I've just upgraded to PE4, I'm not going to buy Premier Elements for that alone.

Keep in mind that you need the right hardware. My CD has "CD_RW DVD" on it which means I can read and write the CDs and DVDs. Not all PC CD drives have write cabability. If it isn't printed on the front or an other computer it probably doesn't. You also need to have the appropriate type of CD/DVD for the device or the software to reformat it. It is complicated and hard to give specifics on-line. However, knowing the right questions to ask when you go shopping is 1/2 the battle. Good luck.

[Juli]

I seem to be having the opposite to the DVD problem - last night, I completed the creation of a slideshow and wanted to burn a CD of it. The only output I saw was to create a DVD of it to play on my TV which isn't what I wanted. I want to be able to burn the CD to put into a computer hooked up to an LCD projector and project on the big screen - doesn't seem to be working. I have Photoshop Elements 4.0.

[ATR]

Juli,

Check out the Help. It gives the details.

I have Elements 3.0, and this is a route...
In Organizer, select the slideshow that is saved there as a Creation.
Go to Edit/Burn a Video CD
Burn Dialog Box appears...fill in details, such as Burn VCD on drive....select NTSC if USA
Click OK
CD should be in drive
Your writer first writes the slideshow as a wmv file, followed by burning to CD

To view this CD on your computer, you need software such as PowerDVD or you can go through the MPEGAV subfolder of the VCD Folder. To view VCD on TV/DVD player, the DVD player needs to accept VCD. Mine does not.

Also check out the details for the profile that you select when you start to make the VCD. All sorts of info there.

ATR

[Shirloreo]

I'm a relatively new user of Photoshop Elements 4, first time on this forum.
I have done some scrapbooking and emailed the PDF files with great success. Now I am making up slideshows. I found that my DVD burner program that came with my new dvd burner did not burn WMV files. It said it was incompatible media. I spent lots of time on the web searching for a program that would convert the WMV file to a file that could be burned. Finally success. I downloaded Ultra DVD creator. The next hurdle was the DVD- and DVD+ format. I ended up buying both types of discs to see which ones to use. My new dvd reads both but my neighbour's would only read the DVD- since her dvd player is older. From now on I will only burn the DVD-. I think that is the most popular type of format. By the way the music and photos worked well together.
A question I have is, should I resize the photos before I put them in the slideshow? I did a 9 minute slideshow and the size was large...83 mb. It took forever for it to be saved as a WMV file. If I resize the photos what size would be best for slideshows? Reason for asking is I have many photos from my trip last year, probably working out to be a 20 minute show, so the file size will be huge.
:confused: :confused:

[karen donnybrook]

Hello Lucile, Hello Lynn, Hello Juli, Hello Shirl,

Great to meet you all and welcome to the forum. Hope someone can help you with your problems.

[Wendy]

Hi ....

... and welcome to all of you :)

I'm sure that someone who uses this feature will be along soon ...

Wendy

[TonyW]

I usually resize the images in Editor to 720x480 pixels which is the standard size for DVD first. I'm not sure that doing that will speed the process since when you create a WMV/DVD it will automatically resize to that size anyway.

You might want to take a few images and compare if resizing to 720x480 pixels first speeds the process. I haven't done that and would be interested to know if it does. You could also compare file sizes - my guess is that they'll be the same whether you resize first or let the software do it for you.

BTW I'm a Proshow Gold user so its been a while since I did a slideshow in Elements - if you're going to do a lot of slideshows for DVD you might want to take a look at Proshow Gold. It's a lot slicker than the Elements + WMV/DVD conversion route.

Tony