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Here is what I have done so far: Made a presentation and saved it and brought a .avi file from work. I used "ahead Nero" and it converted the .exe presentation to .avi and I could preview the presentation from Nero. I went to burn without clicking finish as the instructions read. Nero was in the process of "encoding" the project and at 10% into the process which took 45 min. Just a very long process for me and at that rate of process time I could be encoding all day?!!! However, the .avi I brought over was a 25 min class which I thought that is why it is taking so long. When all this is said and done (completed) with my VCD, which is first the slide presentation and then the avi or the other way? Harry

Does one have to burn only a dvd? Can I just use my Roxio Platimum5 and burn for now a "VCD with my .avi file: (using my cd burner) Can I preview before I burn? This may be getting into a sort of upper income program for me for now. I think I am going to need a Digital Vid Camera, a program to capture my tape and edit just to get to the new P2E AVI program. And then purchase the "Ulead Factory2" and a DVD Burner I'll for now just sit back in my seat, in the background, and study the forum. But please, someone let me know if I will need all this new hardware? Harry

Maybe this new topic can focus one aspect of the many threads now going on PTE to dvd players. Igor has indeed recommended Ulead as a high quality necessary link. It may be what many of us end up using - especially if it does produce a noticably better quality. But as Rick stated, many of us would like to try the possibilities we already own or find freeware or shareware. Maybe one is even better than Ulead. I suggest as each of us try various back-ends for the PTE produced .avi we can help each other by posting both successful and non-successful experiences. My own experience so far has been with Pinnacle's Studio 8 to produce SVCD disk. I think someone has been successful with other Pinnacle products, but has anyone produced a PTE-SVCD using Studio 8? If you have, please share how. I admittedly don't know Studio 8 very well, but it appears I should be able to use Studio to take the PTE .avi file to MPEG for the SVCD. The way I have tried, Studio gives me a message The selected clip has non-standard Video Frame Rate thus cannot be encoded to MPEG. I think I might be able to try the alternate codecs but will not Igor's proprietary combination likely be better if I can make it work?

When making EXE files, I know what size to make my still photos.....PowerPoint Size (1024x768) @ 72 dpi. But.... When I make a DVD that will be played on a TV, what size (in inches or pixels) and what resolution, (dpi) should I make the still photographs? Will JPG's work OK or should I use TIFFS? What is the ratio - proportion - of a TV? If a picture is 1024 pixels wide, how tall would it be to fill the screen with no clipping? Thanks !!! John

I have successfully made a DVD playable on my computer, but it does not work on my DVD player connected to my TV. Is there a disk compatability problem ie. rewritable DVD disks. Also the quality is not as good as the exe. file on PC. Do I need to make the file size larger on the original files in Pictures2exe, or am I missing a setting in Ulead. DVD burning is new to me. Any help would be welcome Graham

I downloaded V4.20 and then started a test project by selecting a dozen or so pictures and added them in a new project. When I attempted to create a AVI file by clicking on the AVI button but it came up saying I had not added any music files and it would not let me go any further. Is it possible to set something so I can create a avi without any music? DonB1

I have been privilidged to try Igor's newest addition to PTE that he has just announced with the ability to burn our slide shows to DVD I have sucessfully produced DVD's that play a super quality PTE slide show on my 32in widescreen TV. The following information may be usefull as I found the best results were obtained by Selecting Windowed mode from the options. Make sure that any text you add is not close to the edge of the frame or it may be lost in the conversion to DVD. I used Ulead Moviefactory 2 with no trouble at all. Create the AVI file in PTE, switch to Ulead and create the DVD. Well done Igor, but £24 is too cheap. bbdigital

How about the option of creating a CD that will play on a DVD is ther any chance of this? A lot of family do not own a computer. Mart

After using your excellent program for various weddings, I have been asked if it is possible to place the presentation on a DVD, so that Granny does not have to sit in front of a computer to view the great event. Can you tell me if there is a way to achieve this?