Slideshow

[Bob Mc]

I have about 100 slides and tried to create slideshow

 

Everything works except 2 or three slides comes through with the photo missing (black)

 

The test shows but the photo does not

 

I've created it 3-4 times and each time the same thing happens (with a different picture)

 

I have 2 gig memory on a dual core Intel machine

 

I got the same response in version 8 and upgraded to version 10 with hopes it would fix it.

 

I tried to open the dmsm file on another PC (I copied the entire directory pictures and all) but when teh dmsm file opens on another computer the slideshow is empty) The original was on a drive G: and the other computer only has a drive C: - does that matter?

 

Thanks for any help

[Stratocaster]

Hi

 

I'm having exactly the same problem, regarding occasional random blank frames in a slideshow. It seems to be independent of how I create or edit the slideshow (CineMagic, Slideshow assistant, Videowave or whatever), and appears to be random in which pictures it blanks out, and the blanks change if I save/exit and reopen. The production can preview OK, but when burning to disc or image, the thumbnail in the encoding window shows occasional blanks, which turn up in the burned image. The problem seems to be worse if the picture duration is short, or if the transition period is long, and seems to be less of a problem if all the transitions are "fast dissolve", which appears to be about the shortest, other than "cut" (no transitions), but that doesn't necessarily completely fix the problem it just reduces the numbers of blanks..

 

I'm a very new user of EMC10, but have an XP system, with 2Gb of memory on a dual core Intel processor, and an Nvidia GT6600 gfx card with the latest driver.

 

Any help on this would be appreciated, as it is a pain having to monitor every frame in the entire encoding process (which takes a long time with large jobs), and then cancelling the job and not knowing what it is going to do the next time when I try to reburn.

[bimicher]

Hi

 

I'm having exactly the same problem, regarding occasional random blank frames in a slideshow. It seems to be independent of how I create or edit the slideshow (CineMagic, Slideshow assistant, Videowave or whatever), and appears to be random in which pictures it blanks out, and the blanks change if I save/exit and reopen. The production can preview OK, but when burning to disc or image, the thumbnail in the encoding window shows occasional blanks, which turn up in the burned image. The problem seems to be worse if the picture duration is short, or if the transition period is long, and seems to be less of a problem if all the transitions are "fast dissolve", which appears to be about the shortest, other than "cut" (no transitions), but that doesn't necessarily completely fix the problem it just reduces the numbers of blanks..

 

I'm a very new user of EMC10, but have an XP system, with 2Gb of memory on a dual core Intel processor, and an Nvidia GT6600 gfx card with the latest driver.

 

Any help on this would be appreciated, as it is a pain having to monitor every frame in the entire encoding process (which takes a long time with large jobs), and then cancelling the job and not knowing what it is going to do the next time when I try to reburn.

 

Why not braek up your large job into several smaller jobs using Videowave. After outputting from Videowave to DVD compliant mpeg files, you can easily combine them into your final DVD using myDVD.

 

The durations of the photos on either side of a transition have to be longer then half the transition duration between the photos.

[grandpabruce]

I have about 100 slides and tried to create slideshow

 

Everything works except 2 or three slides comes through with the photo missing (black)

 

The test shows but the photo does not

 

I've created it 3-4 times and each time the same thing happens (with a different picture)

 

I have 2 gig memory on a dual core Intel machine

 

I got the same response in version 8 and upgraded to version 10 with hopes it would fix it.

 

I tried to open the dmsm file on another PC (I copied the entire directory pictures and all) but when teh dmsm file opens on another computer the slideshow is empty) The original was on a drive G: and the other computer only has a drive C: - does that matter?

 

Thanks for any help

 

You could update your video drivers, but I am not sure that that will help.

 

If you are moving directories to another computer, they have to be in the exact same place as where they were, on the computer that you moved them from.

 

If you open the slide show, in VideoWave, on the computer you moved them to, then you should be prompted to look for the photo. Browse to where they are now, and select them. I think VideoWave will look there for all of the pictures you have in the production. Give it a shot.

[Stratocaster]

Why not braek up your large job into several smaller jobs using Videowave. After outputting from Videowave to DVD compliant mpeg files, you can easily combine them into your final DVD using myDVD.

 

The durations of the photos on either side of a transition have to be longer then half the transition duration between the photos.

Thanks for the advice m8. I'll give it a try.