Tutorial of DVD Photo Slideshow Professional Version
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1. moreover the above devices are no longer need any roll films as the ordinary camera and they help people store their sweet memory on their PC Then with the help of some photo editing software the photos can be made into photo slideshow which shows the photos in a brand new way The resolution of digital photos In the digital world inches don t exist only pixels do A pixel short for picture element is the smallest unit in a computer image or display Every image on your computer is made up of a colored grid of pixels Digital images contain a fixed number of pixels per inch You can increase the dpi and therefore the resolution by decreasing the dimensions of the photograph For instance if you have a photograph taken with a digital camera that is 1800 by 1200 pixels with a resolution of 72 dpi you could obtain a 300 dpi resolution by decreasing the photo to a 6 by 4 inch size The Two Faces of Resolution There are two basic ways the term resolution is used One refers to the pixel count of an image An image with lots of pixels is often called a high resolution image But in other contexts resolution refers to the density of pixels in a given linear area such as an inch This density is expressed as ppi pixels per inch or dpi dots per inch and this density number is embedded invisibly in a bitmap image as an instruction to output devices such as a printers The resolution setting should be chosen while taking a pi2. and then burn the slideshow image file with some other burning software such as Nero You can know the detailed information about this in the third part of this tutorial MPEG Movie If you want to upload your creative slideshow to YouTube and MySpace or to import your slideshow to some mobile devices such as iPod PSP and mobile phones you can choose MPEG Movie or YouTube Uploadable Movie as the output format For YouTube MPEG 4 movie with resolution of 320x240 is the best uploading format But please pay attention that DVD menu is not available in this format FLV Movie This format is for those people who want to share their slideshow on their own website Choose FLV Movie to output your slideshow in flv format which is also supportable by YouTube and MySpace After encoding you can insert the FLV file into your webpage AVI Movie If you want to enjoy your slideshow anywhere you can choose AVI as the output format and import your creative works to your MP4 player Tips for the Program The following are some useful tips on making slideshows with DVD Photo Slideshow System Requirements Intel Pentium III 800M HZ Processor and above Microsoft Windows 98 ME 2000 XP and Vista 256 MB of RAM above is recommended 200 MB of available hard drive space for program installation DVD R RW or DVD R RW drives for burning DVD Windows compatible sound card recommended TV connected to DVD player recommended Recommended s
3. RW and DVD R RW discs The following is the detailed division of DVD DVD R and DVD RW DVD R is a recordable but not rewritable DVD format and can only record data only once so if you want to use the disc repeatedly the disc will not be good choice DVD RW is a rewritable optical disc with equal storage capacity to a DVD R The data on a DVD RW disc can be erased and recorded over numerous times without damaging the medium DVDs created by a R RW device can be read by most commercial DVD ROM players such as Philips Sony Hewlett Packard Dell Ricoh Yamaha and others DVD R DVD RW and DVD RAM DVD R is a recordable DVD format and can record data only once and then the data becomes permanent on the disc The disc cannot be recorded onto a second time DVD RW is a re recordable format and the data on a DVD RW disc can be erased and recorded over numerous times without damaging the medium DVDs created by a R RW device can be read by most commercial DVD ROM players such as Panasonic Toshiba Apple Computer Hitachi NEC Pioneer Samsung and Sharp DVD RAM discs can be recorded and erased repeatedly but are compatible only with devices manufactured by the companies that support the DVD RAM format DVD RAM discs are typically housed in cartridges DVD R DL and DVD R DL DVD R DL also called DVD R9 is a Dual Layer writeable DVD R It is recordable but not rewritable DVD R DL also called DVD RQ is a Dual Layer wri
4. To add photos to the album you can choose to add one by one add by multiple choices add by drag and drop and add by batch collect The previous two methods are common used in most of software and the following we will give you more details on drag and drop as well as batch collect drag and drop You can finish drag and drop with the following three steps 1 Select the resource object you want to drag Press the left key of mouse and hold on 2 Move the object to the target position Once you begin to move you will see a shadow of the selected object move with the moving of the mouse 3 when you move the selected object to the desired position please release the left key and it will be moved to your desired position Actually in DVD Photo Slideshow you can adopt drag and drop while you adding photos arranging slide order setting album thumbnail and adding background music so it would be more convenient for you to know how to drag and drop More detailed information is available in the help document in the program Batch Collect A batch is a group of similar items produced processed or gathered together and treated as a single unit When you have a great lot of pictures saved in different subfolders of the same folder on your hard drive and you want to add them to the slideshow without selecting them one by one moreover you would like each subfolder can be an individual slideshow then please choose Batch Collect to hel
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6. You can see that all detailed information of added pictures are displayed including Number Name Size File Date Dimensions and Path Click any of this and the photos will be displayed according to its criteria After you finishing sorting you can choose Thumbnail in the drop down menu of the More tab to return to the previous view mode Auto Exposure Because of the light condition when you take pictures you pictures may in unbalanced exposure You can check Auto Exposure option in our program to adjust the exposure of the selected photo Another way for you for solve this problem is to make use of some other image tool such as PhotoShop to modify your pictures and then save them Step Two Decorate Photos and Albums Now let s go to the next step also the most import step in photo organization Decorate your photos by transition effects music text art clips and subtitles Transition Effects Transition refers to the visual way in which the previous slide disappears and the next appears With transition you can make your whole slideshow play more smoothly More than 300 transition effects are available in the program However you can choose to apply no transition to the album by clicking N A in the Transition amp Music window Transition Subset Here we provide transition subset feature for the demand of using only several desired transition effects to the whole album randomly Click Subset in the Transition amp Music
7. creen resolution and disc 1280 x1024 DVD RW DVD RW Creating I mage File When you encounter some problems in DVD burning you can choose to create image file of the slideshow and then burn with other burning software You can do this by the following steps Click Burn Disc tab and come to the burning window 2 After you finish setting all the technical parameters select I mage Recorder in the DVD CD recorder options or check Create I mage File option Then you will be asked to choose a folder to save the image file 3 Click Burn Now to start burning After burning you can use other burning software such as Nero to burn the slideshow onto disc easily Deleting Temporary Folders A temporary folder will be created automatically once you start a new project When you choose to simulate burning the output MPEG 2 file of your slideshow will be saved here by default You can choose Explore Temporary Folder in File menu to view the mpeg file conveniently Each album in your slideshow will be encoded as an individual MPEG file This method is useful when you encounter some burning errors You can do this by choosing Options in View menu After you see the default album setting window please click Remove All Temporary Folder button You can also delete the temporary folder manually Smart Encode In DVD Photo Slideshow in order to save time Smart Encode is adopted The Smart Encoding means the program will only re encode for
8. cture It depends on what you want to do with the picture Do you want to e mail it to friends post it on a Web site make it your computer s wallpaper print it as a 4 x 6 photograph or create a poster sized print If you want to view the pictures ona computer monitor such as those you send by e mail or post to the Web a low pixel count setting is perfectly adequate Because most people view images on monitors that display only 800 x 600 pixels a low pixel count image such as a 600 x 400 photograph will fill up most of their screen without running off the edges A low pixel count setting will also reduce the file size of the image and reduce time it takes others to download or display your image Printers however can print at much higher resolution than a typical computer screen Images that you intend to print should be captured at a higher pixel count setting e Fora 2 x 3 print the image dimensions should be 400 x 600 pixels minimum e Fora 4 x 6 print the image dimensions should be 800 x 600 pixels minimum e Fora5 x 7 print the image dimensions should be 1000 x 1400 pixels minimum e Foran 8 x 10 print the image dimensions should be 1600 x 2000 pixels minimum If you are not sure what you want to do with your pictures the moment when you take a picture to be safe it s a good idea to set your camera to the highest resolution setting You can always reduce the pixel count of your image later for e mailing or web publi
9. esolution of digital PNOCOS 0 cece cseseeceseeeeseeeeseseeseseeeeseeeeseeeseseeeeaees 12 The Two Faces Of Resolution cc ceceesssessesesseceseessseeeseseeesseesssenseseseessseeesseseeesaees 12 The resolution setting should be chosen while taking a picture 0 00 13 Camcorder sec 5 sean ae been a ile BAN eeen bh aed eves deh dee Res 13 Reviews of current popular digital CAMELAS ccc eceeteeseeeeeseteeseseeeeseneeees 14 More about digital PNOtCOGFANN hn eee cee esesseseseeseseeeseseeseseeeeseeeeseseeseseeseseneeseseeseseees 15 Welcome to DVD Photo Slideshow In this tutorial you can know more about the project elements of the program and other useful resources of creating slideshows If you want to know more detailed information about creating slideshow please refer to the user manual or the help document in the program The Basic Elements of the Program DVD Photo Slideshow Professional is for making photo slideshow to DVD Now firstly let s know more about these three basic elements DVD Photo and Slideshow Division of DVD DVD is the abbreviation of Digital Video Disc or Digital Versatile Disc It can hold a maximum of 4 7GB Normally it can only record a maximum of 4 38 GB information data and uses MPEG 2 to compress video data DVD is divided into several categories Generally it can be divided into writable and rewritable DVD Currently our program can only support burning slideshows in CD R RW DVD R
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11. inside Reviews of current popular digital cameras There are five types of digital cameras in current market Entry level Basic digital cameras with few features and limited image quality Priced from 50 200 Deluxe point and shoot These cameras offer more controls and produce better images than entry level ones do Priced from 200 400 Printing is limited to 4x6 inches Professional lite Features quality and ease of use make these cameras ideal for many different jobs ranging from graphic and Web design to insurance and real estate Priced from 300 800 Professional The best of digital cameras producing images that meet or exceed the quality of film Priced from 1500 60 000 Gadget Toy cameras and cameras that are built into computers Priced from 10 200 For more please visit http www dpreview com reviews More about digital photograph Why is the photo so big on the computer but when it prints it s a lot smaller Generally speaking the photo was taken at a high resolution setting on the camera When you open it with some application such as Photoshop it may look pretty large The file s physical dimensions however maybe only something like 3 x5 which is what the printer will output A lower resolution setting will result in a smaller size on the monitor but the same physical size when the photo prints Its quality will not be as good as a photo taken at a higher res
12. olution setting however An image s resolution is measured in dots per inch or pixels per inch in the digital realm Since a monitor never displays more than 72 dpi dots per inch photos that will never be used in print such as for the Web or PowerPoint are better saved down to 72 dpi from higher resolutions You ll have a smaller file size and the files will load more quickly To see a file s physical size and resolution open it in Photoshop and under the Image menu go to Image Size It will bring up a window that will allow you to view and adjust the photo s physical size and resolution How do I transfer images The medium defines the ways you can transfer images from the camera to the computer You can either connect the camera directly to a computer using a cable or you can remove the card or disk from the camera and pop it into a special drive After downloading the images erase the camera s storage medium and you re ready to take more pictures Serial connections are very slow and require special software to download the images Serial cables came with all the older cameras They are plugged into the printer or modem port of the computer USB universal serial bus is a faster replacement for serial If you are planning on using USB you can look at the outside of the camera box for the USB symbol J ust plug the camera in and out of the USB port while the computer and camera are turned on and open a photo application l
13. only apply album theme but add titles and credits to your album A variety of motion effects are provided for you to apply to titles and credits Step Four Choose DVD Menu This step is designed for the demand of outputting slideshow in professional DVD mode Although you cannot design the DVD menu here you can still customize the menu by changing background image adding background music and adjusting onscreen texts Menu Navigator Menu navigator is used to control the playback order of albums in the slideshow You can choose to play the current album repeatedly or play the next album Step Five Export Your Slideshow DVD Photo Slideshow let you output your slideshow in various format such as DVD SVCD VCD 2 0 MPEG FLV and AVI DVD SVCD and VCD 2 0 If you have a DVD burner and want to play to play your slideshow on TV please choose DVD as the output format The image quality of DVD is the best among DVD SVCD and VCD 2 0 But to encode your slideshow in DVD SVCD VCD 2 0 format may need more time than to encode in MPEG FLV and AVI Since this format needs the program to encode the slideshow in MPEG 1 for audio and MPEG 2 for video format which is larger in file size than MPEG 4 MPEG Movie e Create I mage File When you want to burn the slideshow onto the disc but your DVD burner is not recognized by the program except changing some technical setting you can also choose to just create image file with the program
14. p you do this conveniently Right click on the Album Toolbar or Album List to select Batch Collect in the pop up menu and then you will view a pop up window for your batch collect IN Batch Collect Please check the folders containing photos Albums with the same name of folders will be added to the project and all photos in the file folder will be added to each album E oe Desktop a Y My Computer CIO Control Panel J TJ Nero Scout CO My Documents H O Shared Documents tH Cs Local Disk C w i Fl E3 O f 4 CD Drive D lt Local Disk E J DYD F Drive F H C Removable Disk G CIG dvd help OB flv CIO pictures OE My Documents Check the folder which contains all the subfolders of pictures and then click Ok button and all the subfolders in your checked folder will be created as an album with the same title as the file name of the subfolder After finishing adding photos it s time to organize them in your desired way The first step should be sorting pictures Sort Pictures In DVD Photo Slideshow you can sort your pictures simply by drag and drop them in the slide panel You can also sort pictures according to different criterion such as file name file size and file date If you want to sort pictures in this way please firstly choose to view your added pictures in Details mode Select Details in the drop down menu after you click the More tab in slide toolbar
15. s the better the image quality is so DVD output is the best in terms of image quality as well as DVD player compatibility Slideshow Slideshow is a modern concatenation of Slide Show A slideshow is a display of a series of chosen images which is done for artistic or instructional purposes Slideshows are conducted by a presenter using an apparatus such as a carousel slide projector an overhead projector or in more recent years a computer running presentation software With the recent popular slideshow software you can make use of your photos and videos to make personalized slideshow for a variety of uses such as gift and business presentation Our DVD Photo Slideshow is among the easiest to use slideshow tools With our neat program you can make your slideshow in various formats such as DVD VCD MPEG movie FLV and AVI movie That to say you can not only enjoy your slideshow on TV but on your PC website and mobile devices General Process of Creating Slideshows with DVD Photo Slideshow Generally creating a slideshow involves a three step workflow Organize Modify and Export In DVD Photo Slideshow you can finish producing slideshow in three steps more specific five sub steps Step 1 Add and Organize Photos Several image formats are supported by the program including JPEG PNG BMP and TIFF You can create one or multiple albums for your slideshow Each album can be regarded as a small independent slideshow
16. shing http www fotofinish com resources centers photo resolution htm Camcorder Camcorders or video camera recorders have been familiar for nearly 20 years to people They can be used everywhere such as school plays sports events family reunions and even births When you go to a popular tourist spot you are surrounded by them Camcorders have really taken hold in many places and this is because they are an extremely useful piece of technology that you can own for under 300 or more than 100 000 A brief introduction of camcorder Generally speaking a typical camcorder contains following two basic parts A camera section consisting of a CCD lens and motors to handle the zoom focus and aperture A VCR section in which a typical TV VCR is shrunk down to fit in a much smaller space The function of the camera component is to receive visual information and then interpret it as an electronic video signal The VCR component is exactly like the VCR connected to your television which receives an electronic video signal and records it on video tape as magnetic patterns see How VCRs Work for details A third component the viewfinder receives the video image as well so you can see what you re shooting Viewfinders are actually small black and white or color televisions but many modern camcorders also have larger full color LCD screens Based on all these elements digital camcorders have an added component
17. teable DVD R It is recordable but not rewritable The dual layered discs can hold 7 95GB and double sided dual layer called dvd 18 can hold 15 9GB Dual Layer is more commonly called Double Layer in the consumer market and can be seen written as DVD R DL or DVD R DL Dual layer technology is supported by a range of manufacturers including Dell HP Verbatim Philips Sony Yamaha and others HD DVD It is Short for high definition DVD a generic term for the technology of recording high definition video on a DVD In general HD DVD is capable of storing between two and four times as much data as standard DVD The two most prominent competing technologies are Blu ray and AOD DVD ROM DVD ROM was the first DVD standard to hit the market and is a read only format The video or game content is burned onto the DVD once and the DVD will run on any DVD ROM equipped device Photo The supportable format in the program JPEG PNG TIFF and BMP The resolution of photo Generally the higher the resolution is the larger the image file is With DVD Photo Slideshow there is no limitation on the resolution of added photos but no matter what resolution added you photos are with the program will encode the pictures to the fixed resolution about 352 x 240 288 for VCD 480 x 480 576 for SVCD and 720xX480 576 for DVD The former one is for NTSC video system and the latter is for PAL system As we know the higher the resolution i
18. that takes the analog information the camera has gathered and translates it to bytes of data Instead of storing the video signal as a continuous track of magnetic patterns it records the picture and sound as 1s and Os Digital camcorders are so popular just because people can copy 1s and Os very easily without losing any of the information they ve recorded Analog information on the other hand fades with each copy the copying process doesn t reproduce the original signal exactly Video information in digital form can also be loaded onto computers where people can edit it copy it e mail it and manipulate it CCD the sensor in the camcorder and it is used to measure light with a half inch about 1cm panel of 300 000 to 500 000 tiny light sensitive diodes called photo sites How VCRs Work VCR started to develop and popularize in the 1970s and 80s and it is a milestone in the history of the TV For the first time it gave people control of what they could watch on their TV sets Prior to the VCR there was no such thing as a video store The other interesting thing about VCRs is how incredibly intricate and interesting they are inside They are certainly the most complex mechanical systems most people own outside of their automobiles yet VCRs can cost as little as 75 There are motorized tape loading and ejection systems complex motorized tape paths drum mounted rotating read record heads Thus to some extent VCRs really are neat
19. those part which you have modified when you burn the same project But this also may cause some problems when you encounter problems with the project So it would better for you make modifications for the part with problem and then let the program re encode and the problem may be solved Not support music with license The current version supports mp3 wma and wav format music Please do not use any music with license because this program does not support any encrypted music files For example most iTunes files are encrypted hence our program could not open it But the program provides sound recording function which may be helpful If you can play the iTunes music file on your computer you can use the recording feature to record the music and then add these music files to the slideshow Where is dps log file The log file records all the operations you have done in the program When you encounter some problems just send this log file to our technical support staff and this may help us fix the problem more quickly and exactly This log file always is located in the temporary folder of the program Normally it is in C Documents and Settings Administrator My Documents DVD Photo Slideshow Professional dps log Other Resources about digital photo and digital cameras With the development of the technology people have more and more devices to take photos conveniently such as camcorder digital camera cellular phone with camera etc
20. window and then select you desired effects in the pop up window After your selection please click Randomize to apply these effects to the current album randomly Time Line The main function of time line is to show the sync of the slideshow duration and audio slideshow Making use of time line you can control the duration of slideshow and audio exactly As we mentioned before you can add background music by drag and drop Firstly please click Add to add your desired music to the album and then drag and drop it onto the slide or transition which you want the music start from You will find the time line will start from here Fade in amp Fade out This option is quite useful when you add several music clips to the aloum Check this option to make transition of clips more smoothly Loop Audio When you just want to use one background music file in the album you can check this option to make the added audio play repeatedly until the end of the album However pay attention that the option can just make you loop the audio for the current album not for the whole slideshow o Step Three Apply Album Theme Album theme can determine the overall visual appearance of the album Actually you can make use of album theme to emphasize the theme of your album We provides theme for various festivals and important days so you can find a proper one to make your album more animated Titles and Credits With our program you can not
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