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[Bill A.]

I have Roxio Creator 9 and a Blue Ray DVD burner and player and want to burn photo slideshows to Blue Ray DVDs.  After making the slide shows I do NOT understand how to transfer them to the Blue Ray burning process.  I see that if I were burning videos in HD format, I can access them easily enough via the Quick Blue Ray menu, but not slide shows.

I really need some step by step advice using VERY plain english, not computer or Roxio talk.  

Thanks,

Bill A.

[grandpabruce]

Bill A., on Sep 8 2006, 05:17 PM, said:

I have Roxio Creator 9 and a Blue Ray DVD burner and player and want to burn photo slideshows to Blue Ray DVDs.  After making the slide shows I do NOT understand how to transfer them to the Blue Ray burning process.  I see that if I were burning videos in HD format, I can access them easily enough via the Quick Blue Ray menu, but not slide shows.

I really need some step by step advice using VERY plain english, not computer or Roxio talk.  

Thanks,

Bill A.

Well, hopefully someone who has lots of money and a BlueRay burner will drop in and assist you.  I bet that there won't be many, but I am anxious to find out who has one.

[cwdjr]

grandpabruce, on Sep 8 2006, 02:29 PM, said:

Well, hopefully someone who has lots of money and a BlueRay burner will drop in and assist you.  I bet that there won't be many, but I am anxious to find out who has one.

I would not invest in HD DVD on a computer at this time. The problem is that we have 2 formats. Who knows what will happen. In the case of video tape, the present VCR format displaced the Sony beta format. In the case of the old quad sound, there were 4 major formats, but none of these are with us today. In the case of standard defination DVD blanks for recording, we seem to have a draw between DVD+R and DVD-R with DVD-RAM still being used somewhat by Panasonic and a few others. At least it proved to not be difficult to design equipment and software to burn and play all of these types on the same drive using the same programs. The 2 new high definition DVD formats are extremely different. Each has powerful support in the equipment and movie industry. Until it appears certain that one format will win, I would not invest in a HD DVD drive unless it will play and record both of the new HD formats. That could be quite expensive at first.

[cdanteek]

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Until it appears certain that one format will win,

Name me a format that Sony has won? They are the largest backer of BD Blue Ray.

They are good at putting root-kit programs on your PC though!

cdanteek

Edited by cdanteek, 10 September 2006 - 08:50 PM.

[cdanteek]

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I am anxious to find out who has one.

That and other things, a easier way would be to just ask!

cdanteek

[grandpabruce]

cdanteek, on Sep 10 2006, 11:37 PM, said:

That and other things, a easier way would be to just ask!

cdanteek

Maybe we could start a poll, at the same time.

[Kevin J]

Slideshows, when burned to a DVD, are encoded into MPEG2 and when played back on a DVD player, they act just like the regular video on the disc in every way. When you create a slideshow in the Slideshow Creator, you're creating a slideshow project, *.dmss file, which contains all the information about the slideshow and is basically instructions on how to convert this slideshow format to a movie file. MyDVD does this step for you automatically. If you want to burn to Blu-Ray, you'll have to perform this step yourself but it's not too bad.

First open up VideoWave and select Open Production. On the bottom of the Open Production file browser, there is a drop down next to Files of Type. By default VideoWave Productions are selected. Hit the drop down and select Slideshows (*.dmss). Browse to the location of your slideshow projects and open the first one. You'll see it added to the timeline. Now go to File, Output As. Make sure NTSC is selected and under Video Quality select DV Format AVI. Make a filename and hit Create Video File. Now go to the Blu-Ray creation window again and import this slideshow video. Repeat for other slideshows.

With selecting DV-AVI format you're limited to a 720x480 resolution (regular DVD) so you're not taking full advantage of the huge resolutions of Blu-Ray but you can take advantage of the extra space. Because you're using DV-AVI format, when reencoded to be on Blue-Ray, you'll lose less quality then if you were to encode to DVD. You'll also fit a lot more slideshows on a single disc, which is always great. Remember when we thought 4.7gbs was a lot for a single disc?