How to create a Photo CD with transition effects & music
With PictureToTV (http://www.picturetotv.com/photovcd.htm), you can create a photo CD with transition effects & music from you digital photos. This CD can be played on all DVD players that support playing of VCD on CD-R & CD-RW (many are). Optionally, you can also produce higher quality slideshows using the external SVCD Plugin for PictureToTV. This requires your DVD player to support SVCD playback.
1. Launch PictureToTV
2. Add your digital photos to the album by dragging your photos from
either the built-in file explorer OR windows explorer as shown.
3. You can organize your photos into multiple albums if you
wish. You can rename your albums too.
4. Next, click on the MUSIC tab (as shown) to select the music file(s)
you want to play for EACH album. After adding your music files, you
can re-arrange them using drag & drop. Your music will loop if it's shorter than the video, and will be truncated if it's longer. To avoid truncation, you can choose AUTO SYNCHRONIZE, which will then end the music & video at the same time.
5. Next, click on the EFFECTS tab (as shown) to select the transition
effect you want for EACH album. You can also select RANDOM
transition effect for your album (default).
6. Next, click on the DISC MENU tab (as shown) to configure the menu
that will be displayed when your CD is first played in your DVD
player.
7. You can select different menu templates for your CD, or modify an
existing template with your own background picture.
8. If you want a music to be played when the menu is shown, click on
CUSTOM for "Menu Music".
9. You're almost done. Before you do the final CD burning, you may
want to preview how your CD will look like when played. Click on
PREVIEW (as shown).
10. When you're satisfied, click on the BURN CD tab.
11. To burn your CD in 1 single step, simply select
"Generate new video and burn into CD", and click START.
(On WinXP, you will need to have Administrator rights to
burn CD.)
12. If you want to burn your CD later, you can choose "Generate new
video" instead. This will generate a pair of BIN/CUE files
representing the CD image. To burn this file later, you can select
"Burn existing video into CD", or use a 3rd party burner like BurnAtOnce (Freeware), NERO or CDRWIN.
Note that you need to select the right video option before burning
(NTSC or PAL). US & Japan use NTSC, while most other countries use PAL.
Also note that if your CD-Writer is not supported by PictureToTV, you
can still depend on NERO (5.5 and above) or CDRWIN to do the burning.
13. You are DONE! Pop in your newly created CD into your DVD (or VCD)
player and enjoy! (most players should work, but not all).
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