I have used WMP2 to more or less create slide show with transitions etc. It
only has maybe 15 slides, no audio yet, not been burned to CD after saving to
HD... I now find that it CANT be be read/seen on a CD (or DVD?)
standalone machine used with TV, hence cant show this thing on a TV?
NOW
I have fine, photos, scans etc, and text for these, but they are isolated to
the computer world at present?
BUT
I can take said photos, add captions, make text enhanced with graphics on
another program and save as a file, hence having a graphic text regarding
each or many photos.... WHERE is the program that will do this simple task
and simply overwrite music? Even as a 'second track' (poor term..) .
IMHO we have a huge waste of time dealing with the R&D of not only WMM but
the others, then finding out our efforts are only for the computer world......
I invested in a 42" plasma TV, yet I cant use it, nor can Aunt Bess or
Cousin Al, read and use my family history enhanced photo journal....

Color me frustrated......

LarryINmich of course

yes, but it's a simple matter to take your saved movie and use it as the
input to your DVD software... and keep going.
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"LarryINmich" <LarryINmich@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:F0C417F2-8038-4DB5-A83C-D8AD69B8DA4A@microsoft.com...
>I have used WMP2 to more or less create slide show with transitions etc. It
> only has maybe 15 slides, no audio yet, not been burned to CD after saving
> to
> HD... I now find that it CANT be be read/seen on a CD (or DVD?)
> standalone machine used with TV, hence cant show this thing on a TV?
> NOW
> I have fine, photos, scans etc, and text for these, but they are isolated
> to
> the computer world at present?
> BUT
> I can take said photos, add captions, make text enhanced with graphics on
> another program and save as a file, hence having a graphic text regarding
> each or many photos.... WHERE is the program that will do this simple
> task
> and simply overwrite music? Even as a 'second track' (poor term..) .
> IMHO we have a huge waste of time dealing with the R&D of not only WMM
> but
> the others, then finding out our efforts are only for the computer
> world......
> I invested in a 42" plasma TV, yet I cant use it, nor can Aunt Bess or
> Cousin Al, read and use my family history enhanced photo journal....
>
> Color me frustrated......
>
> LarryINmich of course

"PapaJohn (MVP)" wrote:
> yes, but it's a simple matter to take your saved movie and use it as the
> input to your DVD software... and keep going.

Well dont have a CLUE as to your implications. This is NOT a lifetime
career. I find NOTHING that says the finished slide show will
work/fade/sing/ transition as our trial does when we play it on the MM2
screen. In fact the implications are worse than they, it/folks/MS says it
cant be played on standalone machines.

That apparently is my point................

what part of Windows Movie Maker led you to believe you could take your
finished movie directly to a standalone DVD player? Windows movie maker is
a tool to do what the title says "Make Movies" it does not (with a few
exceptions - but lets not cloud the issue) create DVD's.
after you create your fabulous movie with transitions, slides, titles,
soundtrack etc. you save to a movie file (computer file.) this is step#1 in
the process. the next step is to take the movie file you have created,
import it into the DVD burning software that came with your DVD burner
(assuming you have a DVD burner) and create your DVD. generally speaking,
creating the movie in window movie maker is by far, the lions share of the
project. continuing it on to a DVD is generally very painless and simple.


"LarryINmich" <LarryINmich@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:584D46E3-1181-4388-8BC1-E4B2C55BD71C@microsoft.com...
| "PapaJohn (MVP)" wrote:
| > yes, but it's a simple matter to take your saved movie and use it as the
| > input to your DVD software... and keep going.
|
| Well dont have a CLUE as to your implications. This is NOT a lifetime
| career. I find NOTHING that says the finished slide show will
| work/fade/sing/ transition as our trial does when we play it on the MM2
| screen. In fact the implications are worse than they, it/folks/MS says it
| cant be played on standalone machines.
|
| That apparently is my point................

Evidently, now much later, I understand your concept.
A I create my wonderful movie slide show with bells and whissles
using WMM.
B That movie gets saved 'as it plays in realtiime' so that all the goodies
are now available to be copied in realtime to DVD.
C. Said DVD will be able to be used by the rest of the world.

L.