Slide Show Limit???

MadMikey wrote on 4/5/2003, 1:20 AM
Ok, I created a picture slideshow using DVD-A (1.0a). It consisted of 445 jpg images(310Mb) and one background wave file(445Mb). I use the preview in DVD-A and it plays perfectly. A little over 36 minutes in length. I then create/burn this in DVD-A. It says it will use 2236Mb for about 55% of the DVD... no problem. I proceed to create the DVD, takes about 2.5 hours on my 1Ghz Athlon, finishes and does not report a problem. BUT when I play the DVD it only has about 15 minutes of the slide show, NOT the 36 minuts as in the preview. Over half the images are not there. I've tried this both on a FAT32 drive and then changed everything to an NTFS drive and still the same thing.

What can be causing this and how do I fix it???

HELP

Thanks,
MadMikey

Comments

bbcdrum wrote on 4/5/2003, 1:10 PM
I don't know if this addresses your problem, but...

From the DVDA help file:

"Each object on your DVD can have no more than 99 chapter markers. If your slideshow contains more than 99 slides, chapter markers will be created only for the first 99 slides. If you want to move past slide 99, you can use the Fast Forward button on your DVD player (Previous/Next Chapter buttons allow navigation through the first 99 slides only)."


I overcame this by making multiple menu items and keeping the number of slides in each to under 99. BTW, according to SF tech support, there is no way at this time to make the titles in a slideshow play sequentially. You must go to the main menu and choose the next item.

BillyBoy wrote on 4/5/2003, 1:48 PM
For now, you're much better off making slideshows in Vegas. Not only can you have the transtitions you want between images you can also pan and zoom them adding more interest.

For example, Billy's birthday party. In Vegas you would combine all the birthday party images. Lets say you have fifty. Drop this file on DVD-A menu. Now break into scenes like greeting guests, game playing, cutting the cake, blowing out the candles and so on. Each 'scene' would have 3-5 still images. You could easily create chapter points, whereby each scene would play a series of stills. Continue with a new video of Billy riding a bicycle, whatever. You would end up with a DVD of maybe 15-20 events, each with an assortment of stills.

MadMikey wrote on 4/6/2003, 1:10 PM
No it's not the chapter limit of 99. It's showing over 150 images. I found nowhere in the manual that says your are limited on the number of images for a slideshow other than disk space. This appears to be a bug. Any comments SF??

I did go and create the slideshow in Vegas4 and had no problems doing it this way, but it should work in DVD-A also.

MadMikey
SonySDB wrote on 4/7/2003, 7:34 AM
MadMikey, I'll send you an email offline and ask for your project file. We are not aware of any such problem.
Bear wrote on 4/7/2003, 9:55 AM
I would like a follow up on this also as I often to slide shows with 200 up images and if it is going to be a problem I would like to be aware of it. Let me know how it gets resolved if you think of it.
Thanks.
SonySDB wrote on 4/7/2003, 10:09 AM
I will.
Bear wrote on 4/7/2003, 5:59 PM
thanks
SonySDB wrote on 4/8/2003, 11:46 AM
We were able to reproduce the problem. If you have more than 255 pictures in a slideshow, the actual length of the slideshow on the DVD will be wrong. This is a bug in DVD Architect.
Bear wrote on 4/8/2003, 12:47 PM
So anything up to 225 is fine? That covers anything I will ever do.
Thanks again
SonySDB wrote on 4/8/2003, 2:11 PM
Anything up to and including 255 is fine.
MadMikey wrote on 4/8/2003, 2:51 PM
Thanks for the prompt response SDB... SF is the best in support.

MadMikey