[Larna]

Not sure if I am being too ambitious as I have only made a couple of simple audio slideshows up to now.

I am making slideshows with hundreds of photos from my daughters visit to Australia & New Zealand last year. I have used 'My DVD' in Creator 8. It is all done and looks great, but the problem is with the biggest menu that contains 500 photos and 6 audio tracks. In preview, a couple of the tracks sometimes sound distorted. When I go into the menu edit option, I sometimes get the message 'Videowave 8 needs to close' and then everything closes down.

I haven't tried to burn the project yet, and I am hoping that I don't have problems with that, but I need to find out what the problem is with the audio first.

Is it possible to open this project (that has been totally created in 'My DVD') in 'Videowave', and would I then have more scope? I have opened 'Videowave' but I don't know where to find my DVD project!

[grandpabruce]

Not sure if I am being too ambitious as I have only made a couple of simple audio slideshows up to now.

I am making slideshows with hundreds of photos from my daughters visit to Australia & New Zealand last year. I have used 'My DVD' in Creator 8. It is all done and looks great, but the problem is with the biggest menu that contains 500 photos and 6 audio tracks. In preview, a couple of the tracks sometimes sound distorted. When I go into the menu edit option, I sometimes get the message 'Videowave 8 needs to close' and then everything closes down.

I haven't tried to burn the project yet, and I am hoping that I don't have problems with that, but I need to find out what the problem is with the audio first.

Is it possible to open this project (that has been totally created in 'My DVD') in 'Videowave', and would I then have more scope? I have opened 'Videowave' but I don't know where to find my DVD project!

You can't open a MyDVD project in VideoWave.

Update the drivers for your audio card/chip, or you could just burn your production, to a DVD, and see if the audio is ok on the DVD.

[sknis]

I assume that you are running XP. If so, go into Windows start, run and type in dxdiag, then OK. When the window opens, go to the Sound Tab. Move the slider all the way to the left. Listen to the slide show that gave you the distortion to see if that helped.

Vista does not have the same controls.

[Larna]

I assume that you are running XP. If so, go into Windows start, run and type in dxdiag, then OK. When the window opens, go to the Sound Tab. Move the slider all the way to the left. Listen to the slide show that gave you the distortion to see if that helped.

Vista does not have the same controls.

Thanks for your responses.
I tried the dxdiag thing but there was still some distortion, although much of the audio is OK. So, I then tried burning to disc, twice, but both times I got the error message '8007000e Error while Encoding Menu'. The 'overall progress' showed 100%, and 'Current task: completed 100%'.

Any ideas?

[sknis]

Thanks for your responses.
I tried the dxdiag thing but there was still some distortion, although much of the audio is OK. So, I then tried burning to disc, twice, but both times I got the error message '8007000e Error while Encoding Menu'. The 'overall progress' showed 100%, and 'Current task: completed 100%'.

Any ideas?

Where did you get the music and in what format? See if anything here will help; the error code is different but may give you some ideas.

Also, when you go to burn the project, select to burn it to an image file (ISO). Name the file and select the location where you want it created. When (if) it encodes, use Creator Classic to copy the ISO file to your blank DVD.

Please put your computer specs in your signature (My Controls at the top of this page) so we can see if your computer is up to the task. That error is often related to you video card/chip whose drivers are out of date or just won't handle the program.

This post has been edited by sknis: 21 July 2009 - 01:09 PM

[grandpabruce]

Thanks for your responses.
I tried the dxdiag thing but there was still some distortion, although much of the audio is OK. So, I then tried burning to disc, twice, but both times I got the error message '8007000e Error while Encoding Menu'. The 'overall progress' showed 100%, and 'Current task: completed 100%'.

Any ideas?

In MyDVD, click on Tools/Options, and set Render with, to Software. Then try again.

I would bet that you have an onboard video chip. Check it out, and let us know what chip/card you have.

[Larna]

In MyDVD, click on Tools/Options, and set Render with, to Software. Then try again.

I would bet that you have an onboard video chip. Check it out, and let us know what chip/card you have.

Thank you both for your responses again, and so quickly.
I went into Tools/Options and 'Render with' was already set to software.
I have tried to put my computer spec on the signature but it is difficult to know where to find everything, and some of it is Greek to me! Anyway there is a little more info there now.
Followed your link to a similar error code, and carried out 5 downloads from Dell that looked relevant, or said 'urgent'. I also downloaded the hotfix for EMC8. Then I tried another burn, and it was successful.
I put the disc in my DVD player and it looked great. Clicked on the biggest menu (6 audio tracks and 500 photos), and it played, and looked fantastic for the first 2 tracks, and then suddenly ended. Tried the second menu of a slightly smaller size, and that one jumped part of the way through, missing out many photos, and the music was then out of sync. The 3rd & 4th menus are quite small and they played without problems.
The tracks on the first menu, which is the most problematic, are M4A's apart from one track which is MP3.
I did burn it to an image file, but I don't have 'Creator Classic'.

[sknis]

You don't burn to an image file with Creator Classic. you do it with MyDVD or DVD Builder; it is one of the burn options. You should see three different options there.

If you don't have Creator Classic, then you do not have the full Easy Media Creator 8 program. What do you have? If I remember correctly, every version of EMC has had Creator Classic since 7 (that is the one I started with).

[Larna]

You don't burn to an image file with Creator Classic. you do it with MyDVD or DVD Builder; it is one of the burn options. You should see three different options there.

If you don't have Creator Classic, then you do not have the full Easy Media Creator 8 program. What do you have? If I remember correctly, every version of EMC has had Creator Classic since 7 (that is the one I started with).

I sometimes have difficulty choosing the correct words, and names for IT things. I did copy a previous email that said 'Also, when you go to burn the project, select to burn it to an image file (ISO).' I had already done this when I used 'My DVD', where I had created the project, to burn the disc.
I have 'My DVD Premier Suite 8' which I downloaded from Roxio.

[sknis]

I sometimes have difficulty choosing the correct words, and names for IT things. I did copy a previous email that said 'Also, when you go to burn the project, select to burn it to an image file (ISO).' I had already done this when I used 'My DVD', where I had created the project, to burn the disc.
I have 'My DVD Premier Suite 8' which I downloaded from Roxio.

Then you should have Creator Classic but you may have "Disc Copier". Use that to copy the ISo to your blank DVD.

When you made the ISO file, what location did you specify for it to be encoded to? (poor grammar but I think you know what I mean.)

[Larna]

Then you should have Creator Classic but you may have "Disc Copier". Use that to copy the ISo to your blank DVD.

When you made the ISO file, what location did you specify for it to be encoded to? (poor grammar but I think you know what I mean.)

I just saved the iso file to My Documents/My DVDs. Thought that would be the easiest for me to remember.

When I go into 'All Programmes' & hover over 'Roxio My DVD Premier 8' The following are the options that I can see. DVD & VIDEO - Cinemagic; Cineplayer; Media Import; My DVD; Videowave. ORGANIZE - Media Manager. PHOTO - Media Import; Photo email Assistant; Slideshow Assistant. TOOLS - Disc & Device Utility; Express labeler; Label Creator. HOME.

So I can't see anywhere to copy my iso file into.

[sknis]

I just saved the iso file to My Documents/My DVDs. Thought that would be the easiest for me to remember.

When I go into 'All Programmes' & hover over 'Roxio My DVD Premier 8' The following are the options that I can see. DVD & VIDEO - Cinemagic; Cineplayer; Media Import; My DVD; Videowave. ORGANIZE - Media Manager. PHOTO - Media Import; Photo email Assistant; Slideshow Assistant. TOOLS - Disc & Device Utility; Express labeler; Label Creator. HOME.

So I can't see anywhere to copy my iso file into.

Permier must be the lite version of EMC 8.

Since you were able to make the ISO file, try one of the free programs that will allow you to copy that ISo to a DVD. If you go to c/net downloads, there are a lot of them. For example this one.

[grandpabruce]

The only version of EMC 8, that had all programs, and had full function of all programs, was EMC 8 Deluxe.

The only good thing about EMC 8 was, it introduced the ability to create panoramas. with your pictures.

[Larna]

Permier must be the lite version of EMC 8.

Since you were able to make the ISO file, try one of the free programs that will allow you to copy that ISo to a DVD. If you go to c/net downloads, there are a lot of them. For example this one.

Hi,

I did use that link, and downloaded the free software. It burned the ISO file, but although the contents of all 4 menus were burned onto the disc, the actual menu page that shows the 4 'buttons' was missing.

This must be the meaning of the original error message on 'My DVD' - '8007000e Error while encoding menu'.

So the ISO file must not have the menu included because of the error in trying to encode it.

[malatekid]

It's quite strange that an ISO got created when you got an error message while encoding the project.

Anyway, maybe you can use this freeware VLC media player to preview the ISO and see if it exhibits the same issue you observed when you burned it earlier. Just download the software, and launch it. Then drag the ISO file from Windows Explorer and drop it on the VLC application. It should launch the video.

Let us know the outcome.

This post has been edited by malatekid: 24 July 2009 - 07:11 AM

[Larna]

It's quite strange that an ISO got created when you got an error message while encoding the project.

Anyway, maybe you can use this freeware VLC media player to preview the ISO and see if it exhibits the same issue you observed when you burned it earlier. Just download the software, and launch it. Then drag the ISO file from Windows Explorer and drop it on the VLC application. It should launch the video.

Let us know the outcome.

I downloaded the VLC Media Player, and opened the ISO file. It went straight to one of the 4 menus and started playing it, but the sound was very distorted. I found the button on the VLC player to go to the menu page, but it did not do this.

[Larna]

Hi,

I did use that link, and downloaded the free software. It burned the ISO file, but although the contents of all 4 menus were burned onto the disc, the actual menu page that shows the 4 'buttons' was missing.

This must be the meaning of the original error message on 'My DVD' - '8007000e Error while encoding menu'.

So the ISO file must not have the menu included because of the error in trying to encode it.

I've just been playing the disc that was burned using the free software that I downloaded, and have found that only part of the contents at least one menu were burned to the disc. So it is not just the menu page that is missing it is also big chunks of the content. When it was encoding on 'My DVD' I could see the whole of the contents of each menu in the preview pane, so there seems to be 2 separate problems here. Encoding the menu page; and burning the total contents of each menu that appeared to have been encoded successfully.

[malatekid]

Can you make a smaller project out of it and save as another project? That is, just have one title (remove the other 3) and save it with another name. Then reencode and burn as an ISO file. Preview using VLC. If it works fine, add the 2nd title to the project and save as another file. Reenconde and burn. I guess you see where I am heading on this one.

[Larna]

Can you make a smaller project out of it and save as another project? That is, just have one title (remove the other 3) and save it with another name. Then reencode and burn as an ISO file. Preview using VLC. If it works fine, add the 2nd title to the project and save as another file. Reenconde and burn. I guess you see where I am heading on this one.

I could try that. It will mean burning each new project each time, so I will be using more discs. I think I will postpone that to another day. It's 1710hrs here in UK, and I am turning square eyed!

[Jim_Hardin]

I could try that. It will mean burning each new project each time, so I will be using more discs. I think I will postpone that to another day. It's 1710hrs here in UK, and I am turning square eyed!

No, that is not what Jess suggested at all!

You will burn NO Disc if you follow his suggestion, yet you will know for sure if it is going to work.

Then build up from there.