Page 1 of Converting Digital photos to VCD/SVCD

Apologies if this is old hat...

I bought a Digital camera last year and have taken hundreds of photos. I certainly cant afford to print them all out, so I have been looking for an easy way for the missus to view them (without using the PC).
I found the following tip on a website somewhere a while ago and tried it out last night - works fairly well.

1. Use Nero 5
2. Choose "New Video CD or SVCD"
3. Drag all your JPG files over into the CD window
4. Choose `Select All`
5. Click `Properties`
6. Put a time delay in (5-10 seconds usually is OK)
7. Hit `Write`
8. Stick the CD into your VCD compatible DVD player and you get a slideshow. You can use the chapter jump buttons to override the time delay.

The colours were a bit washed out under the Scart connection but looked much better with the SVHS output selected - I have an el cheapo CyberHome 512. Good for Family shots, obviously not as good for scenic shots etc.

I hope all the jammy bargain Kodak owners out there find this usefull.

If you are an XP user the following tip might be of some use. If you have taken a number of Portrait photographs (ie holding the camera sideways)- they are awkard to view on a PC and the following tip saves opening and rotating each one individually in a photo editor.
1. In the XP Explorer, tag the folder containing your photos as a Picture folder so you can see a thumbnail of each photo.
2.Select all your Portrait shots and then right mouse click.
3.Use the Rotate Clockwise/counter clockwise option to convert them all in one go.

This item was edited on Thursday, 14th February 2002, 10:33

If you have a Sampo built player like the Encore DV450, Neotek DV3000/3500, Digitron DVS360 or Afreey LD2060 (but not the Reoc A5, Wharfedale M5 or Sharp DV740H) you can actually install firmware from their revolutionary player, the DVE631CF, available in the US, which will enable you to view JPGs saved on a CD-R without the procedure above !

Full details at this article, written by my Area 450 colleague, Craig :

http://gear.ign.com/articles/324406p1.html

cheers bud works a treat!

Shame the PhotoCD format doesn`t seem to be supported by many DVD players - my Cyberhome 512 has dire warnings about trying to view them - anyone know what happens?
Also, what size do you tend to save at (i.e. w x h in pixels)?

This item was edited on Friday, 15th February 2002, 10:02

Issue eleven (January) of Digital Photography Made Easy includes an article on creating your own slide show in VCD format and also includes a copy of ulead DVD pictureShow (albeit a demo version) on the cover disc to do it with.It also offers the ption torecord in ntsc or pal and the software seems to support writing to dvd as well as CD-R. you can add sound tracks and alter things like fades and blends and they cliam a maximum of 1,900 images on the disc. The magazine is published every six weeks so chances are its still in the shops. hope this helped.
regards
kevin