Need some quick help. Putting together a Windows photo story 3 "slide show"

[flyin-lowe]

Last minute I am tasked with putting together a Windows photo story 3 "slide show" video onto DVD's for a school class. I did one last year and they played fine on stand alone DVD players. The one I did tonight I can't get them to play and can't figure out what I need to do. When I get to the last section on the photo story it gives me multiple options to save the file. I selected "profile for creating DVD's NTSC 640x480. It took about 2 hours to create the project and it saved it as a WMV file. That is not working. What file should I use or what should I select to burn these slide show to a DVD that will play on televisions?

[jagabo]

DVD is 720x480, 29.97 fps, MPEG 2.

[flyin-lowe]

After I racked my brain I remembered that I used windows movie maker to make the disks last time. You would think Microsoft would do a little better job getting the word out that the 2 programs work good together. It does the conversions for you. I had done a google search and found a bunch of sites about converting from wmv to something else then another program to burn. All I did was save the project to my desktop, open movie maker, and I was up and running. It gave me several options for menues and then start burning. I was getting ready to spend 20 on the Sonic plug in, glad I didn't now.

[smrpix]

Glad you got it working. My usual workflow was to output an oversampled (larger than 720x480) wmv from photostory to give the mpeg encoder a little something extra to work with.

It's a shame microsoft stopped developing photostory, what was it 5 or 6 years ago? -- a widescreen version would have been nice. It was a great simple tool for quick and dirty slideshows.