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[dfsm2009]

I have been at this for far too long (2 days) in my opinion for not having a finished product. I am following guidelines from each of of you, also reading the User Guide. I have the four slideshows created and then compiled into a movie in MYDVD. It works as I want it to in VideoWave; I get four songs with four eras of photos playing consecutively. Seems like I am ready to burn. I have attempted saving as .iso; .mpg, .dmsm and I cannot burn to a DVD, or least once apparently burned nothing is showing up on the DVD to the best of my knowledge. I have burned in MYDVD, and Copyadn Convert.
I know you are all well experienced with this software, but please if you will dumb this down for me. I can't believe I am so close but feel just lost in this final step.
Is there a fool proof step by step you can walk me through please?

Does it really need to be so challenging?
Please help again. Thanks.

[Beerman]

You say you've burned to an ISO but did the burn complete?  Have you burned the ISO to DVD? If the encoding is successful but the burn to dvd is not, than you might want to try a different brand of dvd.
Please explain if you are getting any messages when you are trying to burn to dvd.

[dfsm2009]

You say you've burned to an ISO but did the burn complete?  Have you burned the ISO to DVD? If the encoding is successful but the burn to dvd is not, than you might want to try a different brand of dvd.
Please explain if you are getting any messages when you are trying to burn to dvd.

Thanks for your help. I'll attempt to walk you through my process.
I have a file on my hard drive called Take4.iso.
If I double click on it it opens fine and begins to play. (No Menus) in MyDVD
If I then double click on the burn button I get a window "Burn Project"
I have Burn to Disc checked
I have save disc to Image File checked (should I or not?)
I click burn and it goes through the Open Project, Encode Movies and complete since there are no Menus.
What am I missing?
Is there more?

[Beerman]

Thanks for your help. I'll attempt to walk you through my process.
I have a file on my hard drive called Take4.iso.
If I double click on it it opens fine and begins to play. (No Menus) in MyDVD
If I then double click on the burn button I get a window "Burn Project"
I have Burn to Disc checked
I have save disc to Image File checked (should I or not?)
I click burn and it goes through the Open Project, Encode Movies and complete since there are no Menus.
What am I missing?
Is there more?

Uncheck the burn to disc and just burn an image file. When completed, find your image file, double click it and Roxio should open a program to burn the file to disc.  Complete this step then see if you get the disc to play correctly.
Sometimes, the burn to disc option just doesn't cut it for many.  I never use but if you do, you should leave the system alone when doing so.  In my mind, too much can go wrong to mess things up.

[myguggi]

Thanks for your help. I'll attempt to walk you through my process.
I have a file on my hard drive called Take4.iso.
If I double click on it it opens fine and begins to play. (No Menus) in MyDVD
If I then double click on the burn button I get a window "Burn Project"
I have Burn to Disc checked
I have save disc to Image File checked (should I or not?)
I click burn and it goes through the Open Project, Encode Movies and complete since there are no Menus.
What am I missing?
Is there more?

The Take4.iso file is your disc image file. When you burn to disc you should have the "save disc to Image File checked" unchecked of course; otherwise you just create the same file over again. What program "plays" the iso file? When you burn the iso file to a DVD there is no "encoding" involved anymore (all that has already been done).
Its very confusing to understand what you are doing or have done. Please refer to actual program names when you are describing your actions. "Click on the burn button" means nothing if you don't tell us in what program you are.

If you have no menus when you play the Take4.iso file then obviously you won't have any after you burn the iso file to a DVD.

Perhaps you should tell us exact how your created then menu for the project and how you created the Take4.iso file. It seems you never created an actual menu.

[dfsm2009]

The Take4.iso file is your disc image file. When you burn to disc you should have the "save disc to Image File checked" unchecked of course; otherwise you just create the same file over again. What program "plays" the iso file? When you burn the iso file to a DVD there is no "encoding" involved anymore (all that has already been done).
Its very confusing to understand what you are doing or have done. Please refer to actual program names when you are describing your actions. "Click on the burn button" means nothing if you don't tell us in what program you are.

If you have no menus when you play the Take4.iso file then obviously you won't have any after you burn the iso file to a DVD.

Perhaps you should tell us exact how your created then menu for the project and how you created the Take4.iso file. It seems you never created an actual menu.

No doubt it is very confusing understanding what I have done - I am very confused about what and how I have done.
However; I am happy to say I have created a NoMenu DVD that plays on both desktop and laptop and on a DVD player through a TV-  Quite the progress I might say and thanks to all here in this forum for the help. WindowsMedia Player has been the program playing the DVD on my computers.
Ideally what I would like as a finished product is this:
One Menu to open and play the entire movie of the four eras and songs continuously. Is this possible?
Is the Menu image and background song an additional movie, slideshow or what?
I will create each era as mpg files in VideoWave. Then compile all four eras together in VedeoWave with the Intro or menu (WHICH IS IT?) as a mpg file then save as an iso file in MYDVD on my hard drive and burn to a DVD as an iso file .
Am I on the right track.
A user guide isn't musch help without offering an understanding of the "why's" you do things - versus just the "how's" you do things.
Thanks for getting me this far - I hope I have the same success with my next step of adding a intro or menu whichever it is.

[Jim_Hardin]

Think in parallel to what you see commercial DVD Movies do…

A button plays one movie and returns to the menu (parallel = Extras)

Chapter buttons play from that point to the end of the movie (parallel = Scenes)

Menu background may be still or automated but time them and you will see they don’t exceed 20 seconds before they blip and repeat.

Keep in mind that Menus are like Ice Cream containers…

Everyone remembers the Content!!!
No one remembers the Lid…

Don’t waste a lot of time and creative effort developing the Lid.

(I think I just had a Forrest Gump moment?)

[sknis]

Forrest Gump: Mama Jim always had a way of explaining things so I could understand them.