Help, When I burn my pics onto a CD from Window Movie Maker or from Digital Image Suite 10, the picture quality deteriorates significantly and I cannot view on my CDplayer connected to my TV ? When I burn directly from My Pictures they are fine - but boring as there are not any "transitions".

1. Do you use AOL as your Internet Service Provider? If not, skip down to paragraph 3. If so, it may be that AOL is compressing your image files, thus causing a loss in image quality.

2. If you do use AOL, you can change your AOL preferences to not modify your images. I cannot remember the exact steps to make this change. Perhaps someone else can guide you, or you could open the AOL Help.

3. If you're not using AOL, I wonder if your program is compressing the image files automatically. Are these images "video" or are they just still images? What image format are they in? .BMP? .JPG? Other?

Have you tried just burning the image files to your CD as plain data files? Just using the Windows CD burning utility or your CD Writing software but creating a data disk? That process should eliminate any unwanted compression of the image files.

Dwight

Dwight - I use Internt Explorer. they are still shots from a 4 megapixel camera. I son't know what format. they burn fine as is to a disc so I guess when I transfer them via Windows Movie Maker they compress them. How can I stop that or do you know of another program that I can add transitions on a slide show but does not compress the pics. Thanks

My guess would be that if one of these programs is compressing your image files, that you could change the preferences to tell the program not to do that. The help menu would probably tell you what setting that you need.

Also, you can use the free graphics program "IrfanView" available from http://irfanview.com

And, I've been advised that you can use the MICROSOFT "PLUS" DIGITAL MEDIA EDITION but I've not used this one.

Dwight

You can try using Nero or Easy CD. They both include "Photo CD" options to burn to your CDR. Just make sure that you do not have your photos in folders as the home DVD players will not read beyond the folders on your CDR.

The problem lies with Windows Movie Maker. When the program creates the final slideshow video, it is compressed into Windows media format. Windows Media is NOT lossless, and most DVD players do NOT support the format.

If you have a DVD burner, then a program such as Roxio Easy media Creator will easily let you create a pretty slideshow playable on any DVD player. There would be a slight decrease in quality, but not to the extent you see with Windows Media.

If all you have is a CD burner, the easiest method may be to simply forego the pretty transitions and burn the JPEGs to disc. Otherwise, you'd have to go through the tedious process of creating a VCD, which is too involved for most.

If you happen to have an iPod with a color screen (Photo, Nano, 5G, 5G R2), another option would be to use the iPod's built-in slideshow feature along with the iPod AV Cable ($19) to output to TV. If you felt inclined to do so, you could record the iPod's output to VHS. Bonus: Background music couldn't be easier.

I hope this was somewhat helpful.

i use a program from hp its called memories disk
i really love that program it take any and all the pics i want and puts them onto a cd or dvd and im able to play it like a movie on me dvd player. you can even make it switch pics slow or faster. really cool i think. it came with my printer machine. but im sure you can get it some where.