vcd prob

[daz10]

VCD I have created a slideshow and burnt it to cd. when i try to play back the disc on a dvd player, the sound plays great and at the correct speed,but the pictures are very slow and stop 2/3 into fading into the secound picture ? Also run it on the computers dvd and its just the same. can you offer any advise please!!!!, thanks

[MikeH]

Did you run the slide show before you created the VCD? Do you have the wmv file on your PC?

Mike

[daz10]

yes, the slide show runs fine. only when i burn it to disc the sound is perfect but the pictures run very slow.? never gets past the first frame before the music is finished? any ideas? thanks Daz

[MikeH]

I haven't come across this or found any references to it elsewhere. :(

The only thing I thought was that you had a long setting for the "Static Duration", which is the time that each slide appears on screen before advancing. However if it's ok when you view on your PC then it can't be that.

Maybe the VCD didn't burn properly? :?

Sorry I can't be of more help on this... :( :(

Mike

[tobybar]

i am having the exact same prob you had with VCD. audio runs at correct speed. slides are at least 10 times slower. i assume you never found answer to prob, but thought i'd check to see if you knew any more now than in march. thanks

[GoTigers]

I also have a very similar problem... I have created a custom slideshow with 195 pictures, various audio tracks in the background, and great transitions. My objective was to burn a VCD of the slideshow to share with friends and family. However, when I try to do this, my computer took 30 minutes just to generate the WMV file. Then it goes into a status of "transcoding videocd.wmv" and the computer just sits there forever! It doesn't look like it's doing anything. I waited 2 hours with still no change in status. I have a VERY modern computer with Pentium 4 processor and 1 GB of memory that I just purchased in Feb of 2004. Does anybody have any idea of what I might be doing wrong or what I could do to speed up the process? I'm running Photoshop Elements 3.0

[tobybar]

First, are we talking Auburn, Clemson or Detroit?

Second, I have since concluded that a) the quality of VCD's suck anyway and b) the only real answer is to get a DVD burner, which I have done.

I have created several .wmv files and, though they took a helluva long time, they did finish okay and allowed me to port the show to other computers.

TB

[GoTigers]

The only true tigers of course.... Clemson!

Thanks for the info... I still have not been able to create the VCD. I think I read in the "read me" file that came with the product that if you had problems creating the VCD, then maybe to try a different speed... I was trying to use 48x speed. So I'm going to try 24x next and see if that works.

Just out of curiosity, I don't see an option on my "Create" menu that allows a DVD to be burned. If I had a DVD -RW/+RW drive on my computer, would the Photoshop Elements "sense" that and put an option on the menu to create a DVD instead of a VCD?

[tobybar]

They've GOT you on this one. To burn DVDs, you have to purchase Adobe's PREMIER Elements, which is the video equivalent of Photoshop. I downloaded a free trial version a few days ago. It looks pretty complicated if you're not into videos and, of course, the trial version does not allow you to complete the process and burn a damn CD. I could have bought the combo (Elements + Premier) for $150 to begin with if I had only known. Separately, each pkg is $100. Not sure what I'm gonna do now.

(We're in the same conference at least. I'm a GaTech fan living on Tobacco Road. Raleigh/Durham NC.)

[MikeH]

They've GOT you on this one. To burn DVDs, you have to purchase Adobe's PREMIER Elements, which is the video equivalent of Photoshop.

Hi... if you want to burn a DVD then you do need additional software - but it doesn't have to be Premiere Elements... you can use any DVD creation software like Pro Show Gold, Nero, Roxio Easy Media Creator etc... I have Premiere Elements but other regulars here use software such as these...

Mike