I just bought DVD Picture Show 3 and put together a project totaling about 100 slides--w/accompanying audio and transition effects. Launched the Burn process--and 36 hours later, it was still trying to render (I assume). It locked up shortly thereafter--didn't see the error message as I had to reboot.
Slide photos average 400KB. Machine is a Dell Dimension 4100 running WinXP SP2-- w/733Mhz processor, 768MB RAM and nearly 120GB free space on disk. Any ideas??? Can't believe it would take so long and then just lock up!
Time to Render and Burn DVD Slide Show!!!
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Masami
Couple things you can try that come to mind
1) Make sure your screen saver is de-activated. Often the screen saver causes the computer to go into a form of sleep mode which can interfere with the program.
2) Try "write disc image file" instead of record. This cuts the burning out of the process and simplifies the whole ordeal so it only has to focus on rendering. My last computer did something similar to what yours is doing and that fixed it up.
1) Make sure your screen saver is de-activated. Often the screen saver causes the computer to go into a form of sleep mode which can interfere with the program.
2) Try "write disc image file" instead of record. This cuts the burning out of the process and simplifies the whole ordeal so it only has to focus on rendering. My last computer did something similar to what yours is doing and that fixed it up.
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SullyInMN
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I just downloaded and installed CD & DVD PictureShow 3 along with the associated patch. Last night, I created my first project without any issues (steps 1 & 2), but then when I got to the "burn" step (step 3), I hit the "Burn" button and it seemed like nothing happened. I decided to leave it and check on it in the morning. Well 7 hours later, it was only 31% the way through the "converting slideshow" procedure and only 4% done overall. Is this normal? How could it possibly take that long? I know it's not locked up because I did see the progress bar go from 31% to 32% as I was watching it. I left it alone and am hoping by the time I get home from work, it will be done.
I have a P4, 2.6 MHz machine with 512GB RAM and a 160GB hard drive. I disabled the screen saver, virus scanner and shut down all other unnecessary services.
Is anyone else having this issue?
I have a P4, 2.6 MHz machine with 512GB RAM and a 160GB hard drive. I disabled the screen saver, virus scanner and shut down all other unnecessary services.
Is anyone else having this issue?
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Masami
Sully, how large are your pictures? A problem that my friend had with this program was that he was using pictures from a megapixel camera. This means that not only is the camera loading up very large files but it needs to focus on shrinking the files down, since DVD's have to be 720x480.
So he sent the pictures to me and I shrunk them down using Photo Explorer and then burned them on mine and it worked fine.
So he sent the pictures to me and I shrunk them down using Photo Explorer and then burned them on mine and it worked fine.
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SullyInMN
The pictures are 2272 x 1704 and average 1 MB in size. What size did you shrink your pictures to before you loaded them into CD & DVD Pictureshow? Something like 800 x 600? Did the pictures still look OK after you shrunk them down?
My show was finally created. It took about 8 hours and the end product looks great. I'll try creating another one after shrinking my pictures down. I would sure like to reduce the time it takes to create a show!
My show was finally created. It took about 8 hours and the end product looks great. I'll try creating another one after shrinking my pictures down. I would sure like to reduce the time it takes to create a show!
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Ozmosis
Hi Sully - The Picture Show program changes your 2272 x 1704 pictures to 720x480 during the process anyway,which can take some time.
I change my pics to the DVD resolution ( 780x480) or slightly bigger prior to inputting to PP3 and get great results and quick rendering times.By doing this you can also crop out part of the pic you may not want to use. The trick is to resave your "shrunk" pics to the highest quality setting in your Photo Editing program that gives a file size of around 200-300k. Oh and dont forget to save them in another folder or rename them so you dont overwtite the originals !
I change my pics to the DVD resolution ( 780x480) or slightly bigger prior to inputting to PP3 and get great results and quick rendering times.By doing this you can also crop out part of the pic you may not want to use. The trick is to resave your "shrunk" pics to the highest quality setting in your Photo Editing program that gives a file size of around 200-300k. Oh and dont forget to save them in another folder or rename them so you dont overwtite the originals !