okay, I have been working on a 200 image slide show for an anniversary and spent 3 days on it..But I did something really stupid, I used the images straight from a CD and forgot that I have to remove the CD to save the show to a blank one! so I went out and bought another portable DVD drive, but the computer knows this is not the 'master' so when I try and save the show , my puter spits out the original CD and the whole show disappears! I did save the images to my harddrive and did the 'find missing files' but that is a no show and is not working! the only way the computer will recognize the show is to keep the original CD of images in the master drive..
but how can I create/save the show to my portable drive without the master spitting out the disc?? I know this is probably more of a computer question than a software question..if anyone can help me I will give you my first born grandchild...HA!! but seriously I am at my wits end and would be extremely grateful if there is an answer to this dilimma!!
I am going out for some fresh air before I lose it
Thanks!!!
Susi: I'd imagine you have to find within the software/menus where you've 'told' the program it can find the photo files to work from in creating the slideshow. I don't use Proshow Gold, but the program I use is likely similar, and I've had the experience of moving a photo file from one folder to another (after creating the slideshow) and that messed things up. With luck, it will be possible for you to go into the slideshow you've created and re-direct the program to the photo files you've saved to your hard drive for the sake of building the slideshow. This will free up your dvd drive for burning.
With my program (and I assume, with yours), I can create the slideshow (the process of actually rendering everything into the slideshow presentation) and save it to my hard drive. There's then a separate 'step' that burns that rendered/saved slideshow to dvd. If you can figure out how to go ahead and render the slideshow and store this on your computer, then it won't matter that you take out the CD with the photos on it, because you're now burning from the saved, rendered slideshow file. (Hope that makes sense.)
I know this may be a bit tedious, but edit each image in the program and in there you can specify the location of the source file. Change the location from the CD drive to the location on your hard drive.
Another alternative is to point the explorer portion of ProShow at the photos on your hard drive and then drag each image from your hard drive next to the same image on the time line. This should pick up the slide and transition time from the slide next to it. This will leave you with two of each photo so next delete the one from the time line that points to your CD drive.
Thanks, so I guess I basically have to reload the whole show again using the images on my harddrive? Oh god...did I learn a big lesson here.
Russ, I did save the show and named it and can reopen it , but only of the disc is in the drive..since I built it from the disc it will go there to find it. when I hit "Find lost files" it names the images one at a time to hunt for. it will not load the whole show from a new location...
man, gonna take a break, watch amercian Idol and come back for another late night slide show episode..thanks guys for your help!
Susi, In the future I believe you can just "collect Show files" from the CD that you need. I use Proshow Producer, but I think gold is the same. When you do a collect it will grab all the images and music and then you can specify where to save them on your hard. Resave the show...I don't think you have to give it a new unique name, but you can. Then when you open the show....it will point to all the files you collected and saved to your hard drive - instead of the CD.
It's easy enough to check...just look in the "File" menu...it should list ""collect Show files" as an option. (This is after you have opened an existing show)
