Slideshow Issues (help please.. It is going to be for xmas)

chantililace · Post by **chantililace** » Fri Dec 08, 2006 11:34 pm

Hello Everyone,

I recently burned a DVD slideshow using Movie Factory 5 and encountered a few issues I need help with. The slideshow, when finished c/w mp3 background music, started to render was 7.7GB large including a 700 MB menu, so a dual layer. The rendering and burning took about 15 hrs

Issues:

1) When I popped the DVD into my DVD player, it worked great, except about mid way through (I have 27 chapters in my slide show) it freezes half way through Chapter 13 and the picture gets distorted.

If I get back out to the menu and select chapter 14 (the next chapter), it starts playing half way through chapter 2. All the remaining chapters will do the same thing: going back an playing halfway through an earlier chapter.

Is this because it didn't burn the dual layer properly? What have I overlooked or should double check before I start another monstrous render. My DVD player has never had problems with any DVD's I throw in, be it single or dual layers.

2)Is there any way of getting more than 3 chapters per menu? I have a total of 9 menus with 3 chapters per menu. Seems very inefficient to me.

I think that is it. Everything else worked great. Any help would be appreciated as this is supposed to be a xmas present

snoops · Post by **snoops** » Sat Dec 09, 2006 12:05 am

#1 You should "burn" to a folder instead and try playing that folder with WinDVD or other DVD player software to check it.
Then burn a DVD-Video from the folder with other software.
This way you avoid rendering again, and check the results step by step.

#2 Edit your menu and choose a new layout for the chapter pages that has more clips per page.

heinz-oz · Post by **heinz-oz** » Sat Dec 09, 2006 2:50 am

You burned a slide show of 7.7 GB

, how many images are in that one?

Let us have the project spec's, something must be wrong.

maddrummer3301 · Post by **maddrummer3301** » Sat Dec 09, 2006 7:48 am

chantililace · Post by **chantililace** » Sat Dec 09, 2006 7:43 pm

heinz-oz wrote: You burned a slide show of 7.7 GB , how many images are in that one?

Let us have the project spec's, something must be wrong.

Yep, 1200 pictures. 2:51 mins long all with mp3 music in the background.
Is it normal for rendering to take that long?

chantililace · Post by **chantililace** » Sat Dec 09, 2006 7:46 pm

maddrummer3301 wrote:Sounds like a bad burn, your dvd player or computer can only read the first layer of the dvd, in other words only 1/2 the dvd can be read. That's why it seems to repeat. It's not repeating, it's at the end of the 1st layer and going back to the closest beginning link.

Maybe your project came out so large because in the burning stage you have the option "Archive/Include Slideshow Images to Disk" or similar wording. If that feature is turned on then all your pictures used in the slideshow will also be included on the dvd (can make the project very large, especially scanned pictures).
In the burning stage of MF to display advanced parameters click on the downarrow located on the upper right of the screen.
Go through the options to find that feature and turn it off. Maybe the project will decrease enough to burn a single layer dvd. If the first one failed then I wouldn't put much faith in the 2nd one, they can be expensive.

Besides normal sized pictures you may have some scanned pictures included with the slideshow and that's what is taking up so much space on the dvd if the archiving feature is turned on. Scanned pictures can be quite large, especially if they are saved as bmp files.

I found that burning dual-layer dvd's that work isn't simple.
On top of that they are DVD+R type dvd's and may not play in the older dvd players, or the newer players if they aren't burnt and finalized correctly.
.

I will try this out today and see what happens. I had a hunch that it only burned a single layer.. Why would it do this when I put a dual layer DVD in, using a dual layer burner? Doesn't MF5 naturall recongnize it has to burn a dual layer disc?

I mad a .iso file at the same time when rendering a burning with MF5. Should I try burning the .so with nero and see if it only sees the first layer ?

chantililace · Post by **chantililace** » Sat Dec 09, 2006 7:48 pm

snoops wrote:#1 You should "burn" to a folder instead and try playing that folder with WinDVD or other DVD player software to check it.
Then burn a DVD-Video from the folder with other software.
This way you avoid rendering again, and check the results step by step.

#2 Edit your menu and choose a new layout for the chapter pages that has more clips per page.

unfortunatel I only have one choice.... Is there a plug in or someting to give me more features? I do have the full version.

chantililace · Post by **chantililace** » Sat Dec 09, 2006 9:37 pm

It worked! If I used the disc image MF5 created, and then used NERO to burn the .iso image, it burned the second layer and the DVD works great right through.

Thanks for your help.

snoops · Post by **snoops** » Sun Dec 10, 2006 2:08 am

I only have one choice

Choose a different type of menu, like Thumbnails. The SmartScene menu you've chosen doesn't allow layout changes.