Slideshow

[hgm1]

I have about 100 pictures that I want to burn to a CDR for a slideshow, and the only way in Version 9 is to burn them to a DVD. Only Version 5 allows burning to a CD, but having both versions on one computer makes one program incompatible with the other. I need it burned to a CD.. The funny thing is that when I burned these 100 slides to a CD in Version 9, it seemed to burn and occupy 50 MB, but won't play. The DVD of the slides occupies the whole DVD and took about an hour to burn, and does play. I had the same problems with versions 6, 7, 8, and now 9 which I all bought the deluxe versions directly from Roxio but none can burn a slideshow to a CD. Quite a problem.

[Larry]

I have about 100 pictures that I want to burn to a CDR for a slideshow, and the only way in Version 9 is to burn them to a DVD. Only Version 5 allows burning to a CD, but having both versions on one computer makes one program incompatible with the other. I need it burned to a CD.. The funny thing is that when I burned these 100 slides to a CD in Version 9, it seemed to burn and occupy 50 MB, but won't play. The DVD of the slides occupies the whole DVD and took about an hour to burn, and does play. I had the same problems with versions 6, 7, 8, and now 9 which I all bought the deluxe versions directly from Roxio but none can burn a slideshow to a CD. Quite a problem.

Slideshows are done differently these days than back when version 5 came out. You can still burn a slideshow to a CD, as you stated you did with v 9, it's just in a different format now.

 

Back in v 5, basically it created a disc with the pictures on it and a "player" that would play them as a slideshow on a computer. Those discs were only playable on a computer.

 

Then, with the advent of dvd players, slideshows changed so that they could be played on those stand alone dvd players also. When using a CD disc to burn them to, they are done as a VCD or a SVCD disc, as opposed to a DVD Video disc on a DVD disc. In all 3 cases, the pictures, along with any transitions, music, etc, is turned into a video file when burned to the disc. In order to play them, your player needed to support VCD SVCD or DVD, depending on what kind of disc and project you made. Most older dvd players would play a vcd or svcd disc along with dvd dics. Newer ones tend not to be compatible so much anymore with the old VCD or SVCD format any longer now that DVD's are so inexpensive to make.

 

So depending on what you are trying to accomplish in creating slideshows will determine how you create them going forward. If you want the old way that v 5 did so they'll play on a pc only, you'll have to find a way to install that part of v5 on a pc, or find an app that can still do something similar. There are probably programs out there that will do this, some may even be free, you'd just need to google around for them (unless someone else drops by with some suggestions).