rendered slide show only colored panels

[AlbertS]

I have created a slideshow of 250 slides with background music and transitions using VideoWave 8, it will work in the preview mode in videoWave 8 but when I try and render it to produce a video file to be burnt to DVD, I only get colored and black screens with no audio, several times a transition will make a brief appearance, but other than that nothing.

I am using WindosXP, AMD athalon @ 2.13GHz with 512 Mb ram, S3 Graphics ProSavageDDR display adapter, I believe to be the most up to date drivers, I have cleaned my disk and defragged and have 24% of 80GB hard drive available.

I rendered this several times using different output settings, with no success.

This slideshow is using jpgs of various sizes, some are over 1Mb in size, the music is Mp3s.

Could someone tell me what I am doing wrong?

[AlbertS]

I figured that with your suggestions the prob may be in the graphics card so after much work I loaded all the files onto a toshiba Satelite Pro 4600 and fired it up, the slide show preview played beautifully (in the preview) then I started to render it to an Mpeg for DVD (best selection) it looked like it was going well the file was going to be 3.1Gb so I left it through the night.. at some time it hung up and just stopped showing 43% and wasn't advancing at all, so I started it up again in the morning and it got up to 87% and hung some time during the day. So then I shut it down, did a disk cleanup and defrag and then went into the performance and changed it to "performance" . I am working with a 750Mhz, 32Kb Primary memory and 256 Kb secondary memory Using Windows XP the Hard drive is 20 Gb and there is aprox 9 Gb available, I have the files on an external network drive. Trident Video Acceleratoy CyberBlade-XP (Toshiba) Display adaptor.

Now it will not show the preview and when I try play the preview it will play the music only and the counter bar(usually moves) stays at the first of the slideshow.

I now notice that I have a yellow "signal" showing through the audio track and all the slides are there in the storyline and timeline but the preview remains black, I tried rebooting and putting it back to custom performance but still does not come back wher it was earlier.

Thanks for your continued patience

 

If the mp3's were purchased from an on-line store, you can not use them directly in this program since they are protected by DRM (garbage). Your rights may include burning them to a CD using the program that came with the files.

 

Is that a laptop or a desk top? If a desk top, you can get a new video card for well under $100 that will work well. If it is a laptop, there are some things you can do.

 

You should be able to shut down all power savings options, set the video chips to performance and away from appearance. You should be able to do that in Windows XP.

 

 

 

 

Make sure that you are encoding in the software mode. Display 96 dpi, at or above minimum screen resolution for this program. And don't do anything else with your computer while it is encoding. My older laptop will run the program in the hardware mode so there may still be a slight chance.

 

On the off chance that there is something else you are doing that is different, look at this process and see if that is basically what you are doing. What are you doing differently? The process is for V9 but it is the same for V8.

[sknis]

I have created a slideshow of 250 slides with background music and transitions using VideoWave 8, it will work in the preview mode in videoWave 8 but when I try and render it to produce a video file to be burnt to DVD, I only get colored and black screens with no audio, several times a transition will make a brief appearance, but other than that nothing.

I am using WindosXP, AMD athalon @ 2.13GHz with 512 Mb ram, S3 Graphics ProSavageDDR display adapter, I believe to be the most up to date drivers, I have cleaned my disk and defragged and have 24% of 80GB hard drive available.

I rendered this several times using different output settings, with no success.

This slideshow is using jpgs of various sizes, some are over 1Mb in size, the music is Mp3s.

Could someone tell me what I am doing wrong?

Probably nothing; perhaps that graphics chip probably just can't handle the demands put on it by this program. I went to their web site and could not find what you posted. Do you have any additional information? How old is it?

Make sure that you also have updated Microsoft's DirectX 9c.

 

Where id you get the mp3's from?

 

Are you using MyDVD to burn an iso file or are you burning directly to disc?

[AlbertS]

Probably nothing; perhaps that graphics chip probably just can't handle the demands put on it by this program. I went to their web site and could not find what you posted. Do you have any additional information? How old is it?

Make sure that you also have updated Microsoft's DirectX 9c.

 

Where id you get the mp3's from?

 

Are you using MyDVD to burn an iso file or are you burning directly to disc?

I made sure that theDirectX is up to date, I had downloaded the mp3s from internet not exactly sure where because they are from my collection. I never actually got to burn to DVD or iso because the MPG file did not yield a useable movie. As for the graphics adapter I'm not sure what it can do. the computer is dec 2004 vintage with integrated S3 ProSavage8.

[sknis]

I made sure that theDirectX is up to date, I had downloaded the mp3s from internet not exactly sure where because they are from my collection. I never actually got to burn to DVD or iso because the MPG file did not yield a useable movie. As for the graphics adapter I'm not sure what it can do. the computer is dec 2004 vintage with integrated S3 ProSavage8.

 

If the mp3's were purchased from an on-line store, you can not use them directly in this program since they are protected by DRM (garbage). Your rights may include burning them to a CD using the program that came with the files.

 

Is that a laptop or a desk top? If a desk top, you can get a new video card for well under $100 that will work well. If it is a laptop, there are some things you can do.

 

You should be able to shut down all power savings options, set the video chips to performance and away from appearance. You should be able to do that in Windows XP.

 

 

 

 

Make sure that you are encoding in the software mode. Display 96 dpi, at or above minimum screen resolution for this program. And don't do anything else with your computer while it is encoding. My older laptop will run the program in the hardware mode so there may still be a slight chance.

 

On the off chance that there is something else you are doing that is different, look at this process and see if that is basically what you are doing. What are you doing differently? The process is for V9 but it is the same for V8.