Tech: saving photos to dvds

Subject: Tech: saving photos to dvds
From: GUEST,petr
Date: 12 Feb 07 - 03:17 PM

Having just scanned a lot of old family photos - Im trying to save them to dvd or cd - for the purposes of viewing them on a dvd player.

(I know I can make a slide show - but that seems to take a fair amount of rendering - and I was just hoping to do it quickly just by saving the photos to disk. Well saving as data -using nero doesnt work, saving as photo/video also nero doesnt work either. Seems that various dvd players play different formats and dont recognize certain disks.

I suppose they can all be converted to mpeg stills but Im just looking for a relatively easy way to do it.

any advice?

Subject: RE: Tech: saving photos to dvds
From: Geoff the Duck
Date: 12 Feb 07 - 04:15 PM

I have usually found that jpeg photos can be played on CD-roms on most current DVD players. Your burner programme ought to just burn a stack of Photo.jpg files straight to disc.
The ought to just play on your DVD player.
Normally a CD-rom contains enough storage to hold more pictures than you would want to watch in one sitting. It would also be easier to sort photos into groups which go together on one cd - e.g. Holidays on one, Events on another, Weddings/parties on a third.
Give it a try, it should wor
Quack!
GtD.

Subject: RE: Tech: saving photos to dvds
From: MMario
Date: 12 Feb 07 - 04:17 PM

I know that Geoff's suggestion *didn't* work on our old DVD player - (about a year old) but does on our NEW DVD player.

Subject: RE: Tech: saving photos to dvds
From: robomatic
Date: 12 Feb 07 - 04:27 PM

Your DVD player should have information in the manual, particularly the FORMATs it will recognize, and whether or not these can be put into Folders and whether or not there are restrictions on characters or numbers in the photo file NAMES. Any of these can cause potential hiccups, but obviously you will be happiest if you can have a selection of folders with titles that remind you of the occasions and DATES to help in organizing. I use a convention of year month day, so I might have a label starting 20070121 - Birthday - Sarah. This will keep the folder organized against other folders by date. Within it I will have photos by number: 001, 002 etc.

But your machine has to be able to find the photos within the folders.

Subject: RE: Tech: saving photos to dvds
From: Tootler
Date: 12 Feb 07 - 06:37 PM

I have a similar wish.

Recently, when clearing out some cupboards, I found my collection of 35mm slides which I would like to transfer to CD or DVD.

I don't want to get a special scanner or special attachment for my scanner, so does anyone know of any companies that will do this kind of thing at a reasonable cost.

I am UK based, BTW.

Subject: RE: Tech: saving photos to dvds
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 12 Feb 07 - 07:12 PM

Most of the "photoprocessers" in my neighborhood will make you a CD of all the shots on a roll of film that you take in to get developing and prints, and will also make prints from your slides.

It wouldn't seem to be anything they couldn't do if you just ask at the nearest service counter. Even at Walmart - or your local equivalent.

As to reasonable cost .... you'd have to do the figurin' after you get their quote.

Once they've put all of them on disk (probably at random) you'll have the digitized images that you can sort and arrange to burn your own CDs with whatever organization you want.

Not too long ago one had to look for a "specialty" lab, or a friend with the right equipment, but it's a fairly routine thing now, at least here, as long as you're satsified with "snapshot" resolution digitizing.

John

Subject: RE: Tech: saving photos to dvds
From: GUEST,petr
Date: 12 Feb 07 - 09:30 PM

yes of course checking the dvd player manual for the formats would be a good idea.
(although I really want to show them on my parents' dvd player - and
go over the pictures with them - I dont have the specs for either of their players - )

currently I have them all as tiffs, so I 'll probably should convert them to jpegs. (since that seems to be what all the photo places do)

thanks for all your suggestions.

Subject: RE: Tech: saving photos to dvds
From: Effsee
Date: 12 Feb 07 - 09:32 PM

Tootler, these people offer a very good service for what you want... www.springhillphoto.co.uk

Subject: RE: Tech: saving photos to dvds
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 12 Feb 07 - 09:50 PM

I have an HP with a DVD burner, and the computer always offers to add a viewer when I burn photos to CD. I think Nero should offer to add a viewer also.

TIFFs are files that are huge and are difficult for some programs to use or recognize. You might want to experiement a little, between JPG and PNG, for example (PNG is larger but is not "lossy" like JPG files, so if someone makes copies from your media to use elsewhere it won't lose any of its luster in being saved again a time or two. The same can't be said of a JPG). JPG files do a kind of "averaging" at the intersection of each color pixel in the image and after a while there is blurring and a loss of definition and clarity.

I move lots of photos around in Nero and make disks of photos from work for publications so the files have to be large and sharp. I'm not sure what the difficulty is you're encountering. Nero has a lot of applications that come in the package and you might want to mouse over each icon--it gives you a description of what the application does. Actually, I love finding some little app in there that I didn't realize they'd included that does some nifty little thing I hadn't thought about. Nero can offer some pleasant surprises.

SRS

Subject: RE: Tech: saving photos to dvds
From: GUEST,petr
Date: 13 Feb 07 - 03:58 PM

thanks SRS
Ill have to check out nero better, my preference is to save photos as tiffs (directly on the camera) as Im in the printing business and prefer tiffs for the quality over jpegs. But I will checkout the options on nero - it just seems to be either data, photo/video or audio,
cheers
PEter