[Willard M]

I made a short movie of 4 stacks of 5 pictures each with a slow dissolve between each stack.

I used one of the pictures in each stack as the background picture and them added 4 pictures to the background in sequential order with 4 second duration between pictures. I also reduced each of the 4 added pictures in each indirvidual stack to 30% of normal size and positioned them in each corner of the background image and assigned various effects for entry with don't fly out ending.

The stacks form and execute just as planned. My problem is that in the transition to the next stack there is a delay in the images not transitioning all at once. EMC 9 apparently does not treat the stacks as individual units. Some of the pictures in a stack actually are still visible through a 4 second duration and show on the following stack before disappearing.

I have tried going to Timeline and making sure that all of the images lineup with the background picture duration. I did this by going to each of the 4 individual picture and using the OVL track made sure that the duration lined up with the duration of the background image duration.

I thought maybe my problem was only with my computer only having 512 memory. I burned a disc to see if the problem was with my computer but the disc also showed the stack pictures as leaving in a random order.

Is there a way to make Roxio treat each individual stack as a single unit as far as transitioning is concerned?

[myguggi]

I made a short movie of 4 stacks of 5 pictures each with a slow dissolve between each stack.

I used one of the pictures in each stack as the background picture and them added 4 pictures to the background in sequential order with 4 second duration between pictures. I also reduced each of the 4 added pictures in each indirvidual stack to 30% of normal size and positioned them in each corner of the background image and assigned various effects for entry with don't fly out ending.

The stacks form and execute just as planned. My problem is that in the transition to the next stack there is a delay in the images not transitioning all at once. EMC 9 apparently does not treat the stacks as individual units. Some of the pictures in a stack actually are still visible through a 4 second duration and show on the following stack before disappearing.

I have tried going to Timeline and making sure that all of the images lineup with the background picture duration. I did this by going to each of the 4 individual picture and using the OVL track made sure that the duration lined up with the duration of the background image duration.

I thought maybe my problem was only with my computer only having 512 memory. I burned a disc to see if the problem was with my computer but the disc also showed the stack pictures as leaving in a random order.

Is there a way to make Roxio treat each individual stack as a single unit as far as transitioning is concerned?

One way might be to use Videowave to output each stack as a separate movie in avi or mpeg format and then Add the movies in myDVD placing transitions between each "stack movie"

[Willard M]

Thank you.

I never thought of trying that. I have been doing high school graduation programs for the high school using Power Point. My last PP program had almost 400 pictures in it. I was hopeful that I could use the EMC program as it would be easier to accomodate than the PP program from a computer to the projector.

I will give your suggestion a try.

Willard