sinbad15

OK. I got that now. Exe. burns...only viewing via computer.

Not adding any music right now. Thanks for the MP3 suggestion. These CD's should run in a home DVD player, no?

Well thanks guys for jumping in. I did not realize before purchasing this software that I would spend as much time as I have trying to figure out how to use it to burn a simple slide show. OK. So I am not supposed to choose the video button that leads you to the choice of 'Burn DVD-Video disk' or 'Create AVI file in order to burn simple slide shows. I create the slide show then drag the exe file into my cd burner (Sonic Record btw burned as a data disk). After that I type out [autorun] open=myshow.exe in notepad or whatever. With 'myshow' being the name that I used for any given show. I save as autorun.inf . Is this all correct? Tried it. Not working. Computer nor DVD player will read the CD. Its funny that I can click on the exe file that PTexe put on my hard drive but once its burned to the CD it won't open.

Could someone tell me what an ISO file is?

video _ ts.bup... ts.ifo... TS. vob... VTS_01_0.BUP...IFO... VOB and VTS_01.VOB Media player will play it but I really need this to work automatically so people can just stick it in their DVD player and go. I should be choosing 'Burn DVD Video Disk' correct? And then just following the prompts? What I am not seeing at any point is any exe. file for automatic playing. I'm sure I'll get used to the way this forum and the tutorials work (which I have tried for a few hours to get to work to no avail)

Why should it be necessary to download another program to get this one to work?

Well I just cut a DVD but it will not run on my home DVD player or off my computer. I'm sure I did something wrong. Does it matter DVD-r vs +r?

I actually was pushed over the edge to do this by visiting Lisa Jane Murphey's site and seeing that she does previews this way. I have been using web previewing and decided that its not a good method. No call to action. With the slide show they know it expires and they can see the images better. Web images stay up too long and older folks just have a hard time navigating. I'll have to go into PTExe and figure out all that you just mentioned. Thanks. Hope your not too wet there in Dallas.

Hey. Thanks for the timely replies. All I really want to do right now is create simple slide shows that I can give my portrait customers so they can view images to decide what they want. This should do it. I love the expiration feature. Without that it would not be feasible to preview this way.

Is there anyway to have the image file number show up on a photo in the slide show? Not much use unless a file number shows up automatically. Don't want to be manually putting one in. I just started to experiment with PTExe so my knowledge is limited. Also I don't know how to open any of those tutorials. What is a swf. file? Nothing I have recognizes that extension. Thanks for any info!!