Vegas Video or Video Factory??

Keelmire wrote on 3/19/2002, 11:55 AM

I have scaned over 3,000 slides and another 2,000 more to go, but I have just completed 3 frustrating months of trying to use vw5 without any sucess.

Question

What is best for quality and ease (without have to take a 4 year university course) for putting still photos on a format (cd-r or cd-rw) that can be played back on a stand alone DVD??

computor
pent 4 with 256 ram
LG cd-r cd rom

Your comments greatly appreciated

Comments

jbl wrote on 3/19/2002, 1:51 PM

An opinion:
if you don't want to turn them into a collage and simulate moving pics but simply present them in a serial way have a look at "DVD Complete" from Dazzle. This has a slide-show wizard and will burn the DVD/CDR too!

I bought the software last week (US$99) and although it is not flawless it does offer a great deal more than MyDVD or SpruceUP; but not much use if you want CDR to set-top player compatibility.

Of course if you want to artistically alter or pan your pics then use VV3 - but with 5000 pics @ 5secs you have over 4hours!

The simplest method is to use Nero and burn a stills VCD that will be playable on most set-top boxes.

I'm sure there are other opinions out there though..............

Cheesehole wrote on 3/19/2002, 4:18 PM

i prefer to make music videos out of stills. the easiest way is to first drop a music track onto the Vegas timeline, and then select a whole bunch of stills and drag them onto the timeline all at once.

POOF! instant music video slide show with transitions.

(in Preferences, you can tell Vegas how much overlap you want between the stills, and how long to show each one. set that before dropping the images onto the timeline!)

I then prefer to burn a 'miniDVD' which is a DVD burned onto a CDR instead of a recordable DVD disc. but you can't expect these miniDVD's to be compatible with set-top DVD players. some set-tops will play DVD's burned to a CDR, but not many. all PC based DVD players can play miniDVD's though. you may be better off burning VCD's or SVCD's, but the quality of your stills will not be as nice as DVD.