GETTING TEXT ON PHOTOS AND BLANK SLIDE TO SAVE

[EFLOWERSSEAL]

I HAVE EMC 8, BUILD 805B30B ENU, I HAVE CREATED SLIDESHOW USING THE SLIDESHOW ASSISTANT, THE PHOTOS AND BLANK SLIDE ACCEPTS TEXT BUT WHEN I SAVE THE SLIDE SHOW TO WORK ON AGAIN LATER, ALL THE TEXT IS GONE WHEN I OPEN IN UP.. IF I BURN DVD BEFORE SAVING THE PROJECT, THE TEXT IS ON THE DVD. THIS HAS HAPPENED ON ALL SLIDE SHOWS I HAVE MADE. WHAT CAN I DO TO SAVE THE TEXT.

[grandpabruce]

I HAVE EMC 8, BUILD 805B30B ENU, I HAVE CREATED SLIDESHOW USING THE SLIDESHOW ASSISTANT, THE PHOTOS AND BLANK SLIDE ACCEPTS TEXT BUT WHEN I SAVE THE SLIDE SHOW TO WORK ON AGAIN LATER, ALL THE TEXT IS GONE WHEN I OPEN IN UP.. IF I BURN DVD BEFORE SAVING THE PROJECT, THE TEXT IS ON THE DVD. THIS HAS HAPPENED ON ALL SLIDE SHOWS I HAVE MADE. WHAT CAN I DO TO SAVE THE TEXT.

 

I have seen this problem posted in these forums, before. I do not remember what the resolution was, but you will be better off using VideoWave instead of the Asstistant.

[grandpabruce]

The slide show assistant lets you add text to each picture and you can also add a blank slide (with any color) and you can add a whole page of text if you need to. photos and music easy to add. it is easy to use and I like to use it. I just need it to work.

 

VideoWave does not let you add blank slides for text, when you want to add text to the picture, you have a choice for the one photo or the whole production. When I select one photo for text, all the other go gray and the text that I just added text to, jumps around, goes dark and I have yet to figured out how to get back to other photos. Last night I selected one photo tried rotating it 90 degrees and all the pictures in the production rotated 90 degrees.

 

The slide show assistant should do what I need and want and don't really care what ViedoWave can do or can's do.

 

Any help would be appreciated.

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You can do everything that you mentioned, in VideoWave. You just need to experiment.

 

List your sytem specs, similar to how I have them in my signature. It sounds like your video card may be the culprit.

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HP Pavilion Media Center m7590n TV PC

Intel Viiv Technology with an Intel Pentium D Processor 940 featuring two processing cores

2048MB (2x250GB) 7200 RPM Serial ATA hard drive

SuperMulti DVD Burner withn Light Scribe Technology

DVD-Rom drive 16x max speed

Wireless LAN 802.11 b/g

NVIdia GeForce 7300 LE graphics card with TurboCache supporting up to 256MB shared video memory and TV capabilities. (THIS WAS UPDATED JAN 9, 07)

HP wireless kkeyboarad and optical mouse with extended range (up to 16 feet(

USB 2.0 and FireWire (IEEE 1394) ports

Front panel 9-in-1 memory card reader

Personal video recorder (PVR) with high performance hardware encoder featuring instant replay nd up to 300 hours of video archiving

Capatible with cable, didital cable, satellite TV and antenna

FM turner (antenna included)

HP Media Center remote control with IR (infrared) receiver

Microsofe Windows

Version 5.1 (Build 2600 x psp-gdr.05034-1519: Serv9ice Pack 2

Physical memoru avaliable to Windows: 2,095,500KB

Ram 2048MB

 

The above information tell you more than i know about my PC.

 

 

I still want the slide show assistant to work, if it is a defective emc8, I will give up and use some other program.

 

The videowave is the pits, i have wasted more time trying to get it to work. the asistant works great except for it not saving the added text.

[sknis]

I still want the slide show assistant to work, if it is a defective emc8, I will give up and use some other program.

 

Please re-read post 2. Some people have had trouble with this and have taken the advice to move to VideoWave. Obviously you don't want to do that.

 

Are you using the two step Assistant in MyDVD or the three step Assistant under the photo tab? Try this. Close EMC V9, go to Windows> Start Programs . Roxio EMC 9> Photo and open the Slide Show Assistant from there. Create a short slide show and add text as you want. Does this work better? If so, just create a desktop shortcut to that program.

 

If that doesn't work or if that is to complex and time consuming to you, perhaps a different and simpler program would be your best bet.

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VideoWave isn't unstable, unless your computer is at the low end of the minimum specifications. What does the Assistant do that VideoWave won't do?

 

The slide show assistant lets you add text to each picture and you can also add a blank slide (with any color) and you can add a whole page of text if you need to. photos and music easy to add. it is easy to use and I like to use it. I just need it to work.

 

VideoWave does not let you add blank slides for text, when you want to add text to the picture, you have a choice for the one photo or the whole production. When I select one photo for text, all the other go gray and the text that I just added text to, jumps around, goes dark and I have yet to figured out how to get back to other photos. Last night I selected one photo tried rotating it 90 degrees and all the pictures in the production rotated 90 degrees.

 

The slide show assistant should do what I need and want and don't really care what ViedoWave can do or can's do.

 

Any help would be appreciated.

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The slide show assistant works great, i have opened it both ways, it does everything i want it to, if i compete a production and burn it before I save it, to work on the next day, it comes out great. The text added to pictures and the blank slides, just does not save when you save the production. I would like to know if the program is defective or if there is a step in saving the text that i am missing. The photso, transitions, duration, music, etc all saves and is there when I reopen production. EVERYTHING BUT THE TEXT. You have never addressed this problem.

[sknis]

The slide show assistant works great, i have opened it both ways, it does everything i want it to, if i compete a production and burn it before I save it, to work on the next day, it comes out great. The text added to pictures and the blank slides, just does not save when you save the production. I would like to know if the program is defective or if there is a step in saving the text that i am missing. The photso, transitions, duration, music, etc all saves and is there when I reopen production. EVERYTHING BUT THE TEXT. You have never addressed this problem.

 

It is a glitch. It happens for some people but not everyone and is probably hardware and interaction with other software. That was in the first sentence in the second post. If it were a bug where everyone had the problem, that would have been in one of the replies.

 

We gave you options and you have chosen not to use any of them. In fact, other than saying you don't want to use VideoWave, you have provided no information on your computer or the results of you doing a little work. I think this thread has come to a close. Clear enough?

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I have seen this problem posted in these forums, before. I do not remember what the resolution was, but you will be better off using VideoWave instead of the Asstistant.

 

The ViedoWave is very unstable and does not do the things that the assistant does. I purchased the EMC last Aug. and then subsquentlybought a new computer because I had insufficient memory to burn a DVD. I have the Pavilion Media Center TV PC: I have 2048 MB of memory and 500 GB hard drive. I updated the Graphics card at the suggestion of the email assistance. They also suggested that I upgrade to emc9. I would like to get this one working.

 

I would appreciate any suggestions you can give me. Thanks

[grandpabruce]

The ViedoWave is very unstable and does not do the things that the assistant does. I purchased the EMC last Aug. and then subsquentlybought a new computer because I had insufficient memory to burn a DVD. I have the Pavilion Media Center TV PC: I have 2048 MB of memory and 500 GB hard drive. I updated the Graphics card at the suggestion of the email assistance. They also suggested that I upgrade to emc9. I would like to get this one working.

 

I would appreciate any suggestions you can give me. Thanks

 

VideoWave isn't unstable, unless your computer is at the low end of the minimum specifications. What does the Assistant do that VideoWave won't do?