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[cami]

Hi. I was wondering if anyone could help me with a problem that im having with easy media creator 9. Im trying to create a slideshow with around 300 pics and audio. I preview it before I burn it or make an ISO image and everything looks alright. After everything is finished, I watch the slideshow and it skips over a hundred slides. There is no way to watch the slides that it skipped and it keeps happening everytime.

[grandpabruce]

Hi. I was wondering if anyone could help me with a problem that im having with easy media creator 9. Im trying to create a slideshow with around 300 pics and audio. I preview it before I burn it or make an ISO image and everything looks alright. After everything is finished, I watch the slideshow and it skips over a hundred slides. There is no way to watch the slides that it skipped and it keeps happening everytime.

You used the Slide Show Assistant.  It has a limit of 99 photos.  Use VideoWave instead.  No limit there.

[mark6869]

This 99 limit is interesting, how acurate is the limit? i have had problems with a slideshow made in mydvd and i have just checked there are 76 images in the show, it always previews correctly and burns to a folder set correctly as a .vob file but never appears complete on a disc. It always drops two slides and displays a blank screen instead, the background audio remains constant. The two slides dropped can be any two in the show usually quite close together if that makes any difference.
If you were to make the show in VW as suggested doesn't that use slideshow assistant just the same or are you proposing another way to make the show?

[Larry]

This 99 limit is interesting, how acurate is the limit? i have had problems with a slideshow made in mydvd and i have just checked there are 76 images in the show, it always previews correctly and burns to a folder set correctly as a .vob file but never appears complete on a disc. It always drops two slides and displays a blank screen instead, the background audio remains constant. The two slides dropped can be any two in the show usually quite close together if that makes any difference.
If you were to make the show in VW as suggested doesn't that use slideshow assistant just the same or are you proposing another way to make the show?

When using the Slideshow assistant it's accurate. That limit does not apply to projects made in Videowave. Your "blank" slides is a totally different issue btw, and not related to the 99  limit in the assistant.

Make sure Directx is updated, your video card drivers are up to date (from the manufacturer, like ATI & NVidia, not thru MS updates). If all that is up to date, go to Tools -> Options in MyDVD or Videowave and set the rendering to Software.

[grandpabruce]

This 99 limit is interesting, how acurate is the limit? i have had problems with a slideshow made in mydvd and i have just checked there are 76 images in the show, it always previews correctly and burns to a folder set correctly as a .vob file but never appears complete on a disc. It always drops two slides and displays a blank screen instead, the background audio remains constant. The two slides dropped can be any two in the show usually quite close together if that makes any difference.
If you were to make the show in VW as suggested doesn't that use slideshow assistant just the same or are you proposing another way to make the show?

VideoWave is not an assistant.  You open it directly, from the Applications page, and start building your production.

[mark6869]

VideoWave is not an assistant.  You open it directly, from the Applications page, and start building your production.

Obviously.. what i am saying is that VW has "slideshow assistant" within it the same as MYDVD does, so how do you make a slideshow in VW different to how you make a slideshow in MYDVD?

[grandpabruce]

Obviously.. what i am saying is that VW has "slideshow assistant" within it the same as MYDVD does, so how do you make a slideshow in VW different to how you make a slideshow in MYDVD?

I never did one in MyDVD, because, even though you may be able to do some editing, its function is for creating menus and burning.  VideoWave was the application designed for creating your productions and editing those productions.

I usually just open VideoWave and bring in movie files or pictures, and add transtions, music, or whatever else I want to do.  I then save it, close VideoWave, open MyDVD, bring in the .dmsm file, add menu, background, menu music, and then burn it to an image file or folder set, then burn to a DVD, using Disc Copier.