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[Ken Schultz]

When making a Photo Disc under Toast 9, how do you configure Slideshow to show only a folder's worth of slides at a time?  

When I mount a Photo Disc, Slideshow defaults to showing the entire contents of the disc as a single show.  A show of over 400 images is not too useful, so I'd like to be able to show just a folder's worth of images at a time.  Is there some way I should configure the Photo Disc before I burn it to make this possible?

[tsantee]

Interesting question. I'll have to experiment with this. One possibility is if you are using DVD media you can make a DVD slide show of just the one folder and then choose add Data content to have the other folders included in the disc. Toast automatically also makes a Photo Disc slide show when you mark that you want the original images included in the disc (in the settings for the DVD slide show). I don't know how this will turn out because I've never tried it. Here are the steps:

1. Choose video DVD as the format in the Toast Video window and add your folder of images. Up to 98 images can be included in each DVD slide show title.
2. Click the More button and make sure the boxes are checked for "Add Data Content" and "Add Original Photos."
3. Give your video DVD a name other tham My Movie.
4. Go to the Data window and choose DVD-Rom (UDF) as the format. Click new disc and give the disc the same name as you gave your movie.
5. Add the folder of images that you don't want in the Photo Disc Slide show.
6. Return to the Video window and click the burn button.

If you choose Save as disc image the disc image file will include everything that's supposed to be there. However, if you then burn that disc image file to DVD using the Image File setting in the Copy window the resulting DVD will be lacking the data content. So choose Save as Disc Image if you want to preview everything, but don't use that image file to burn your disc. (There's a workaround for this but since you have the project set up in Toast you can just click the burn button instead of Save as Disc Image when you want to create the DVD disc.

[Ken Schultz]

Thanks much for your quick reply.  I can see how your suggestion would give me a Slideshow for the FIRST folder I put on the Photo Disc.  But (naturally) I want more. How then would I get a Slideshow of the SECOND folder, then the THIRD, etc?  

The idea is to pass on a full DVD of family photos, nicely organized into folders.  I'd like to allow the recipient (running Windows OR Mac OS) to select any folder and see a slideshow of JUST the photos in that folder.  The challenge is to do this without demanding that the Windows recipients have some sort of slide show software already installed.

It appeared that Toast's Slideshow feature could do this right from the DVD, but Slideshow seems to have no control over showing an individual folder, let alone selecting WHICH folder to show.

If Toast doesn't add any slideshow-by-folder capability, I plan to simply copy the folders of JPG photos to a DVD.  Then:

     For Mac recipients of my DVD, they could simply select all the contents of a folder and double click to open a Preview slide show of that folder (a feature of the operating system).  

     For Windows recipients of my DVD, I don't know if any such capability exists in XP or the new Windows 7.  Any ideas as to what I should do?

Regards, Ken

[tsantee]

Thanks much for your quick reply.  I can see how your suggestion would give me a Slideshow for the FIRST folder I put on the Photo Disc.  But (naturally) I want more. How then would I get a Slideshow of the SECOND folder, then the THIRD, etc?  

The idea is to pass on a full DVD of family photos, nicely organized into folders.  I'd like to allow the recipient (running Windows OR Mac OS) to select any folder and see a slideshow of JUST the photos in that folder.  The challenge is to do this without demanding that the Windows recipients have some sort of slide show software already installed.

It appeared that Toast's Slideshow feature could do this right from the DVD, but Slideshow seems to have no control over showing an individual folder, let alone selecting WHICH folder to show.

If Toast doesn't add any slideshow-by-folder capability, I plan to simply copy the folders of JPG photos to a DVD.  Then:

     For Mac recipients of my DVD, they could simply select all the contents of a folder and double click to open a Preview slide show of that folder (a feature of the operating system).  

     For Windows recipients of my DVD, I don't know if any such capability exists in XP or the new Windows 7.  Any ideas as to what I should do?

Regards, Ken

I'm feeling lazy enough to accept your word that Toast puts all the folders' images into one slide show without any way to organize them. I've never seen anything that provides a way to control this.

I have another option for Mac users: Use Quickview. All they need to do is open a folder, Select All and press the space bar. The same viewer that you see with the Toast photo disc slide show appears. I don't know what Windows offers that's similar.

Now if you a few minutes to spare and want to impress folks, go to jetphotosoft.com and download Jet Photo which is freeware. With it you can create Flash slide shows that can be viewed in a browser. These, of course, are cross platform.