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Thread #140134   Message #3219531
Posted By: MikeL2
07-Sep-11 - 11:04 AM
Thread Name: Making Slideshows HELP
Subject: Making Slideshows HELP
Hi

My wife and I are keen photographers and from the pictures and videos we take I produce lots of slideshows and DVDs to play on out TV sets. We have three DVD players ( Toshiba,Sony, Panasonic ) and all of the disks that I make using a mixture of Sony Vegas, Photoshop Elements 9, Corel Paintshop Pro X3. These are used mainly for movies and I use Magix and Windows Movie Maker for picture slideshows.
My wife hasn't tried to make any slideshows of her own pictures but she wants to try. She thinks the programs I use are a little complicated for her so I looked on the net for something fairly simple to use.
I came up with a really good free program from NCH Software called Photostage Slideshow maker. It has everything that we want to enable my good woman to be able to start to make some shows of her own.
There is a snag though ( there usually is !!) I downloaded the free version of this program and understood that that the purchase version would have more functionality and procedures. But as we wanted simplicity it was fine for us.
My wife sorted out some pictures and fed them into the program, she even found adding her own music as a soundtrack fairly painless and so she burned it as a DVD.
The disk was created and ran perfectly on her computer in Windows Media Player. But we are unable to get it to run on any of our DVD players and so we are unable to get it to play on a TV.
Does anyone here know this piece of software??   
Is it because we are running the free version and need to purchase the fuller one to be able to get it to format the disk to play on a DVD Player and then on TV ??
The program does have the facility to create data disks and share with Youtube etc but we haven't tried that.
Help required – please.
Cheers
MikeL2