Error Message

[TexasLynn]

I have created a slideshow and now want to burn it to a DVD-RW. It goes through several steps and then come up with an error message reading: SOME TITLES HAVE MISSING FILES. i had created a slideshow before and had no trouble. What is missing and what am I doing wrong?

[lynn98109]

After creating the slide show, did you move any of the source files (pictures or whatever) from the location they were during the creation of the slide show?

 

Err ... why on DVD/RW? It will fade to blank over time, no matter how carefully it is stored. After going to all that work, why not DVD/R ...?

[TexasLynn]

After creating the slide show, did you move any of the source files (pictures or whatever) from the location they were during the creation of the slide show?

 

Err ... why on DVD/RW? It will fade to blank over time, no matter how carefully it is stored. After going to all that work, why not DVD/R ...?

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WOULD MOVING SOME PICTURES IN THE SLIDESHOW MAKE THE DIFFERENCE? I WOULD LIKE IT ON A DVD/RW SO PHOTOS CAN BE ADDED AT A LATER DATE. HOWEVER A SECOND DISC COULD BE MADE INSTEAD IF I CAN ONLY GET THE FIRST ONE TO BURN.

[grandpabruce]

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WOULD MOVING SOME PICTURES IN THE SLIDESHOW MAKE THE DIFFERENCE? I WOULD LIKE IT ON A DVD/RW SO PHOTOS CAN BE ADDED AT A LATER DATE. HOWEVER A SECOND DISC COULD BE MADE INSTEAD IF I CAN ONLY GET THE FIRST ONE TO BURN.

 

 

First, knock of the caps. Yes, it would make a difference if you moved the source files, after you did your production. When you build your production, you are just making a list of things that the software does to the original files to create your production. Nothing is embedded into the production, only a set of links to where your source files are.

[lynn98109]

First, knock of the caps. Yes, it would make a difference if you moved the source files, after you did your production. When you build your production, you are just making a list of things that the software does to the original files to create your production. Nothing is embedded into the production, only a set of links to where your source files are.

 

Or, where they WERE

 

Next, you seem to have a very widely held misconception. I've been there, done that, and learned the hard way.

 

R vs RW media

 

There are 3 kinds of discs, either CD or DVD:

• Commercially pressed discs, which have the pits and lands physically pressed into them (pits and lands are the physical equivalent of magnetic 0's and 1's)
• R discs, which have the pits and lands set by a laser "cooking" a dye - there are not quite as stable as commercially pressed discs, but close
• RW discs, which have the pits and lands set by the laser melting and re-crystalizing an aluminum alloy - which promptly starts to de-crystalize, taking all the data with it. At some point in time, the alloy was changed to make the discs less costly, and less reliable. You can't say in advance how long a given disc will last - usually months but it can be days or weeks or years, it varies from disc to disc - but it won't give you an engraved notice two weeks before it goes, it just goes when it goes.

RW media is useful for testing, or for transferring things between computers when there are no other options, and the original files are safely on the originating computer. Then it can be erased and re-used. (If you "delete" a file on either R or RW media, you do NOT gt the space back - you merely delete it from the TOC [Table of Contents]. The difference is you can erase the ENTIRE RW disc and start over.

 

Another major misconception I learned the hard way was about Packet-Writing (Sonic's DLA, Roxio's DirectCd and Drag2Disc, Nero's InCD, etc.) But you haven't said you made the MISTAKE of formatting the disc, so I'll leave that for another day.

 

Lynn