Re: Photo Story 3.1 - burning DVD's
- From: Peppi S. <PeppiS@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2007 04:14:01 -0700
Thanks PapaJohn for the info. So pretty much I'm stuck with waiting 28 hours
to create a DVD with a cover menu from my movies created in PhotoStory 3.1
that were saved with the higher resolution custom profiles? I did get a
chance to play back the 5 movies I made that were saved in all three of the
higher resolution profiles (yours, the other one from John (?) on your
website and computer 4). I played them back on a 52" big screen rear
projection TV and I couldn't tell much difference between the two except for
maybe some "movement" during zooming.
Bobdddds posted that he uses another DVD creating software that does all the
music and what not, but from what I've read, you would lose the pan/zooming
effect, which I must say is the beauty of PhotoStory 3.1. I *HAVE* to have
the pan/zooming, so is there any movie maker, Slideshow or DVD creating
software where you can have several "stories" on one disc with the same
smooth transitions along with pan & zoom like PS 3.1 has that won't take 28
hours for 15 movies to be put onto a DVD? Thanks again for your help!
--
Peppi S.
"PapaJohn" wrote:
The Sonic DVD Plug-in gets you one story per DVD... with you needing to use.
other DVD software if you want to have more stories on a disc.
To get discs with a number of stories on them, you need DVD software that
will make the DVD menu and other files needed for a video DVD. If you copy
the stories to a disc using Windows, you'll only be able to play it on a
computer.
Story files are in WMV format.... and a DVD needs files in MPEG-2 format
(VOB extensions).... for XP Microsoft doesn't have any DVD making software.
The new Microsoft DVD Maker in Vista can do it, but for XP, things like
ULead, Nero, MyDVD, etc. are needed.
--
website references are to www.papajohn.org
PapaJohn
"Peppi S." <PeppiS@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:54A04FC0-2E0D-4AC5-9B2E-E0A9974CE9FD@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I've been reading up on these forums on how to create a DVD from Photo
Story
3.1. I did, in fact, follow some advice and download the custom profiles
from
PapaJohn's website (www.papajohn.org) and tried saving a short test
slideshow
from Photo Story 3.1 using these higher resolution profiles. I then used
NeroVision Express 2 to create my DVD. The test movie was about 10
pictures
long (maybe 6mb size, can't remember gith now) and when I created my DVD,
it
took almost 36 minutes. Most of the movies that I want to put onto a DVD
are
more like 35 mb once I use the higher resolution (on computer 3 800x600,
they
are less than 10mb). I have about 40 movies I want to put onto a DVD. I
did
some test ones of 5 of my movies saved as the two custom profiles from
PapaJohns website and also computer 4 profile. I had 5 movies with 3
profiles
each to put onto a DVD. I started it last night and it told me the elapsed
time would be 28 hours!
My questions are:
1) I've seen mention the Sonic DVD Plugin for Photo Story 3. I presume I
can
use it for 3.1 that came within Digital Image Suite 2006? I also saw you
can
bundle purchase MyDVD as well. What does that particular software do
differently than the plug in software?
2) Also, maybe I'm not doing this DVD creating thing right. When I save a
movie using the custom DVD (NTSC) profiles with the higher resolution, am
I
supposed to be creating a DVD when I go to NeroVision Express2 by going
through adding video files and creating a menu, etc? Or should I just be
copying these movies to a DVD directly since they are already formatted to
DVD? I've never created a DVD before from Photo Story 3.1 except for the
one
last night and I just don't want to have to wait 1 hour for each movie to
be
put onto a DVD.
3) Also if the answer above is that I can just copy the PhotoStory movie
files onto a DVD instead of creating a DVD with menus, etc., can I copy
these
movies all at once or can I copy them one at a time? I know when I copy
music
onto a CD-R, it only lets me write once and then it tells me to insert a
blank CD. So I'm not sure if this is how DVD's work or not. I don't want
one
movie per DVD. And I know there are limitations as to the number of movies
I
can put onto a DVD according to how big the slideshows are.
4) Is there a website that steps you through how to create a DVD from
Photo
Story 3.1 slideshows that does not directly showcase the Sonic plug-in? I
saw
the tutorial on I think Windowsphotostory.com website, but I don't have
the
Sonic plug-in. And from what I read, some people who downloaded that
plug-in
ended up having issues with it and having to download other things to
enable
it to work. Just don't want to buy it if it's not going to work, ya
know???
Thanks for your help on this!!!!
--
Peppi S.
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