Online albums are about the easiest way to make fancy slideshows to share with people in other places, but maybe you want more control than they give you, or perhaps you want to add features like music or panning and zooming over the photos à la Ken Burns. Elements makes it easy to create very slick little slideshows—even some with music and transitions between the images—that you can play on your PC or send to your friends. By using Elements’ Slide Show feature, you can make really elaborate slideshows, but the Slide Show Editor is still only available in the Windows version of the program. If you have a Mac or if you prefer the simple life, you can quickly create a plain-vanilla PDF slideshow in about as much time as it takes to email a photo.
PDF slideshows are really straightforward to create, but you can’t add audio to them or control how the photos transition. On the plus side, you can send PDF slideshows to anyone, regardless of what operating system they use. As long as your recipients have Adobe Reader (which is free) or another PDF-viewing program, they can watch your show.
The Slide Show Editor, on the other hand, lets you indulge your creativity big time. You can add all sorts of snazzy transitions, mix in sound (background music or narration), add clip art, pan around your photos, and so on. It’s a bit more complex to work with the Slide Show Editor than to make a PDF, but the real drawback to the Slide Show Editor comes in your choices for the final output: The slideshow file you create isn’t as universally compatible as PDF slideshows, as explained later in this chapter.
The easiest slideshow of all, though, is the one you make in the Organizer’s Full Screen view, where it’s a snap to create a full-featured slideshow with just a couple of quick settings adjustments. But you can only show this kind of slideshow to people who can see your computer monitor—you can’t save it and email it or post it on the Web.
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If you plan to create a simple PDF slideshow, then you need to do all your photo editing beforehand. The Full Screen view and Slide Show Editor methods, on the other hand, let you edit as much as you like before you finalize the slideshow.
Elements gives you a really easy way to create impressive little slideshows to play on your computer, which could come in handy if you want to play a retrospective of Mom and Dad’s life together during their 50th wedding anniversary party, for example. Whether you’re using a Mac or a Windows machine, you do this via the Organizer’s Full Screen view, and you have all kinds of options for music and fancy transitions between the images. To get started:
In the Organizer, select the photos and videos you want to use in the slideshow, and then go to Full Screen view.
Press F11/⌘-F11 or click the Full Screen button (the little blue rectangle icon with arrows pointing out from its corners; it’s between the thumbnail size slider and the view order menu). If you want the photos displayed in a particular order, put them into an album (Albums and Smart Albums) and rearrange them there.
In Full Screen view, adjust the slideshow’s settings.
Use the control strip across the bottom of the screen (shown in Figure 18-2) to control how Elements presents your slideshow. (Your options are explained below.) You can’t change the background color in these slideshows—it’s always black (unless you choose the 3D Pixelate transition, in which case it’s white).
Press the Play button or tap the space bar to start the slideshow. To pause it, click the Pause button or press the space bar again. To exit Full Screen view and get back to the Organizer, click the X button at the right end of the control strip or press Esc.
You probably won’t use all the options in the control strip (Figure 18-2). For instance, it’s unlikely that you’d want to see the Quick Edit or Organizer panels while showing off your photos to your friends. The two most important buttons are the ones just to the right of the playback controls:
Settings. Click this button to add music to your slideshow (or choose None if you don’t want any). Elements comes with a few built-in songs, but you can use any compatible audio file that’s on your computer. If you don’t see the audio file you’re looking for, click the Browse button to find it. You can opt to play audio captions you’ve recorded in the Slide Show Editor (Windows only [Adding special effects]), display captions, or allow Elements to resize your photos and videos so they fit onscreen (yes, videos play here, too, if you include them in the show).
You can also choose to display a filmstrip of thumbnails of all your photos down the right edge of the screen (the control strip button does the same thing), or to have the show start automatically when you enter Full Screen view. Use the Page Duration box to determine how long each photo stays on the screen.
Transitions. You can choose from among four kinds of transitions between slides: Classic (one photo simply gives way to the next), Fade In/Out, Pan & Zoom (Elements pans across each photo), or 3D Pixelate, which puts an elaborate glittery dissolve between each one. Move your cursor over each transition thumbnail to see a demo of it, and then click the radio button under the one you want.
It hardly takes any time to set up a slideshow this way, and all you have to do once you get it going is to stand back and accept compliments for your impressive display. The disadvantage to this kind of slideshow, obviously, is that you can’t share it with anyone who doesn’t have access to your computer. But Elements gives you a bunch of ways to make slideshows to send to other folks, as explained in the rest of this chapter.
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If you want a fancier slideshow than you can create in Full Screen view, create an online album (see Online Albums) and export it to your hard disk. To play it there, open the folder and double-click the file named index.html.
Elements gives you two ways to create PDF slideshows. The first, the Simple PDF slideshow, is very basic—just a quick run-through of the photos you choose. But if you make a PDF in the Slide Show Editor (which you can only do on a PC), you can create something slightly more elaborate.
You can start a PDF slideshow from either the Editor or Organizer, although you always create the show in the Organizer. In either place, go to the Share tab→More Options→PDF Slide Show. Once you find the command, creating the slideshow is as easy as sending an email. You can read more about it on PDF Slideshows (Mac and Windows). This slideshow has no transitions, no clip art, and no custom type, but it’s the most compatible kind of slideshow you can make in Elements, which means that almost anyone you send it to will be able to view it. And you can easily create a reasonable-sized file so anybody can watch it, no matter how underpowered their computer.
The other way to create a PDF slideshow isn’t as intuitive as the method just described. When you create a show in the Slide Show Editor as explained in the next section, you can choose between saving it as a Windows Media Video (WMV) file or a PDF. If you want to preserve the show’s multimedia bells and whistles, then you need to choose WMV. But then there’s that tantalizing PDF option.
You may think this PDF slideshow sounds like the best of both worlds—a very compatible format and all the fancy effects you created with the Slide Show Editor. Unfortunately, that’s not quite how it works. When you create a PDF this way, you lose the pan-and-zoom feature (Adding special effects), the audio, and the transitions you selected. You do keep any custom slides, text, and clip art that you added, though. On the whole, it’s best to use this feature when you’ve created a full-scale slideshow but one or two of the people you want to send it to can’t open Windows Media files. The people who get the PDF can’t see everything the WMV recipients do, but it’s faster than trying to recreate a separate version for the WMV-challenged.
To create a PDF using the Slide Show Editor, just follow the instructions in the following section. When you’re ready to create your PDF, click Output, and on the left side of the Slide Show Output dialog box that opens, choose “Save As a File.” On the right side of the dialog box, click the PDF File button. This displays a series of settings just for your PDF:
Slide Size. This setting starts out at Small. If you’re going to burn a CD, then you can choose a larger size. But if you want to email the final file, then choose Small or Very Small. You also have a Custom choice for when you want to create a size that’s different from the presets.
Loop. Turn this on, and the slideshow repeats over and over until your viewer stops it by pressing Esc.
Manual Advance. If you want recipients to be able to click their way through the slideshow instead of having each slide automatically advance to the next one, turn this on.
View Slide Show after Saving. Turn this on, and as soon as Elements is through creating your slideshow, it launches Adobe Reader so you can watch the results of your work.
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To make a PDF from an existing slideshow project file, in the Media Browser, right-click the slideshow’s thumbnail, and then choose Edit. Once the Slide Show Editor opens, click Output→“Save As a File.”
When you’ve got everything set the way you want it, click OK to bring up the Save As dialog box. Simply name your file and then save it.
The Slide Show Editor lets you add audio, clip art, and nifty slide-to-slide transitions to your slideshows. You also get several different ways to share the completed slideshow, including making a Video CD (VCD) or—if you also have Premiere Elements—a DVD that your friends can watch using a regular DVD player.
To get started, in the Organizer, select the images you want to include. You may want to set up an album (Albums and Smart Albums), which lets you control the order of the images. (You can change the order once they’re in the Slide Show Editor, but for large shows, you save time if you have things arranged in pretty much the correct order when you start.) You can also start with a single photo and, once you’re in the Slide Show Editor, click the Add Media button to add more images. In any case, once you’ve got the photos selected, go to Create→Slide Show.
Once you choose to create a slideshow, Elements presents you with the Slide Show Preferences dialog box before you get to the actual Slide Show Editor. You can click right past this dialog box if you like, but it has some useful options for telling Elements how you want it to handle certain aspects of all your shows, like the duration of each slide and the background color. (You can change these settings for a particular show in the Slide Show Editor itself.)
In the Slide Show Preferences dialog box, you can adjust:
Static Duration. This determines how long Elements displays each slide before it moves on to the next one.
Transition. This setting tells Elements how to move from one slide to the next. You get many different styles to choose from, like a pinwheel effect or having the next slide move into view from the side. When you choose a transition from the pop-out menu, you can audition it in the little preview area, as explained in Figure 18-3.
Figure 18-3. You can set the slide duration and background color for all your slideshows in this dialog box, which is also a great place to audition different transitions. To see what a particular transition does, select it from the Transition drop-down menu and Elements plays it in the little preview area on the right. If you choose a transition here, then Elements automatically applies it to every slide. But you can override this setting for individual slides in the Slide Show Editor’s storyboard by clicking the transition you want to change and choosing a different one.
Transition Duration. Use this to set how fast the transitions happen.
Background Color. If you want a different background color, click this square to bring up the Color Picker.
Apply Pan & Zoom to All Slides. If you set up the Pan & Zoom feature (explained later in this chapter) for one slide, turn this on and the camera swoops around every slide.
Include Photo Captions as Text. To display a photo’s Caption field, turn on this checkbox. (This works in reverse, too—you can hide the captions by turning off this checkbox.)
Include Audio Captions as Narration. If you’ve recorded audio captions for your slides (Adding special effects), leave this checkbox turned on if you want your audience to hear them.
Repeat Soundtrack Until Last Slide. Leave this checkbox turned on, and if the slideshow is longer than the soundtrack, Elements repeats your song(s) as many times as necessary.
Crop to Fit Slide. Turn on either of these checkboxes (for landscape- and portrait-oriented photos), and, if your image is too large for the slide, then Elements chops off the excess. However, it’s best to do any cropping (Cropping Pictures) yourself before creating a slideshow.
Preview Playback Options. This setting controls the quality of the preview you see while working on the show; it doesn’t affect the quality of the final slideshow.
Once you’re through setting these preferences, click OK. If you don’t want to see these settings every time you start a new show, then just turn off the “Show this dialog each time a new Slide Show is created” checkbox. You can call up the dialog box again anytime you’re in the Slide Show Editor by going to Edit→Slide Show Preferences.
After you click OK in the Slide Show Preferences dialog box, Elements launches the Slide Show Editor. It’s crammed with options, but everything is laid out logically—in fact, it’s pretty similar to the Full Edit window. You get a menu bar across the top, but most of the commands here are available elsewhere via a button or keystroke (like pressing Ctrl+Z to undo your last action).
The preview area on the left side of the window displays the slide you’re currently working on. A panel bin (called the “Panel Bin” in the View menu) is on the right side of the screen, and you can collapse it just like the Full Edit Panel bin by clicking its left edge to get it out of your way. (Collapsing the bin makes the preview space expand across the window.) Click the hidden bin’s edge again to bring it back.
At the bottom of the window is a strip called the storyboard, where Elements displays your slides and the transitions between them. (If you didn’t preselect any photos, the storyboard just says “Click Here to Add Photos to Your Slide Show.”) Click a slide or transition here and its properties (duration, background color, pan-and-zoom settings) appear in the panel bin. To hide the storyboard, go to the Slide Show Editor’s View menu and turn off the checkmark next to its name. You can unhide it again there, too.
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To add photos to your slideshow, click the Add Media button at the top of the Slide Show Editor window. The advantage to bringing photos in this way (as opposed to selecting them before creating your slideshow) is that you can pick photos, videos, and audio clips that aren’t in the Organizer by clicking this button and then choosing either “Photos and Videos from Folder” or “Audio from Folder” and then navigating to the files you want. You can even edit your photos right in the Slide Show Editor. The disadvantage is that you have to choose each photo separately or you have no control over the order in which Elements brings them into the show.
The Slide Show Editor lets you finesse your show in lots of different ways. For instance, you can:
Edit slides. In the preview window, just click an image, and then, using the choices that appear in the Properties panel (Figure 18-4), you can rotate the slide, resize it, crop it, and apply Auto Smart Fix (Smart Fix) and Auto Red Eye Fix (Fixing Red Eye). If you want to do more substantial editing, then just click the More Editing button, and Elements whisks the slide over to Full Edit.
Figure 18-4. The three little rectangles to the right of the Slide Show Editor’s Auto Smart Fix button let you change a photo to black-and-white, sepia, or back to color again (if you change your mind). To make a slide to black-and-white or sepia, just click the button for the effect you want. To undo a color change you make here, click the Normal button. The changes you make with these buttons affect only the slide, not the original image.
Change durations. In both the storyboard and the Properties panel, Elements lists a number indicating how long a slide appears onscreen before it transitions to the next slide. Click the number for a pop-up menu that lists various durations (pick Custom if you want to enter your own number rather than selecting from the menu). You can assign different durations to each slide, if you want. You can also use the drop-down menu next to the slide’s thumbnail in the Properties panel, but only if you want to choose a duration between 3 and 7 seconds.
Pick transitions. Elements gives you lots of different ways to get from one slide to the next. These transitions appear in the storyboard and are represented by small thumbnail icons between the slides they connect. (The icon changes to reflect the current transition style when you choose a new one.)
On the right side of each transition icon is a tiny black triangle. (If you mouse over it, it lights up to make it easier to see.) Click it to see a pop-out menu listing all of Elements’ transitions, and then choose the one you want.
Transitions have their own Properties panels, which appear when you click a transition in the storyboard. You can choose how long a transition takes and, for some transitions, the direction it moves.
If you like to make long slideshows, you’ll appreciate Elements’ Quick Reorder feature, explained in Figure 18-5. When you switch over to the Quick Reorder window, you see all your slides in a view that looks like a contact sheet, making it easy to reposition slides that would be annoyingly far apart if you had to move them in the storyboard. In Quick Reorder, you just drag them to another spot in the lineup without the hassle of scrolling.
Figure 18-5. You can reorder slides by dragging them in the storyboard, but if you have more than a few slides, all that scrolling can be a pain. Elements makes it easier with the Quick Reorder window, shown here. Just click the Quick Reorder button in the lower left of the Slide Show Editor (just above the storyboard) to bring up what looks like a contact sheet of your slides. Then drag any picture to its new location. You see a vertical blue line (like the one above the flamingo image being moved here) indicating the photo’s new position. When you’re done, in the window’s upper-left corner, click Back to return to the main editing window.
You can also change the order of all your slides by using the Slide Order drop-down menu above the right side of the storyboard, although your choices there are limited. If you start a slideshow by first selecting photos in the Organizer, then the Slide Order menu reads From Organizer, but you can choose Date (Oldest First), Date (Newest First), Random, Folder Location, Custom (this is what you see if you manually drag slides to new locations), and Reset (which puts your photos back in the order they were in when you first brought them into the Slide Show Editor).
Elements gives you all kinds of ways to gussy up your slideshow, including adding clip art, text, and sound. If you want a slide that lists credits, for instance, start by creating a blank slide. (To do that, click the existing slide right before the spot where you want the new blank slide to go, and then, above the preview area, click the Add Blank Slide button.) Elements adds a blank slide to the right of the slide you selected, and you can then add whatever you want to it—like credits, for instance. Here’s a rundown of what you can add to a blank slide (or to any slide, for that matter, as shown in Figure 18-6). Just click the relevant button (Graphics, Text, or Narration) in the Extras section at the top of the Slide Show Editor’s right-hand panel to see these options:
Figure 18-6. You can add all sorts of clip art to slides, as well as create slides that include only clip art or text. If you’d like to angle clip art (like the hat and glasses here) to make it fit your subjects better, see the Tip on page 587.
Graphics. Elements gives you a whole library of clip art you can add to slides. The art is divided into categories: animals, backgrounds, costumes, and so on. Use the backgrounds on blank slides, because they cover the whole slide; you can add the rest of the clip art to slides that already have something on them. To add a piece of clip art to a slide, just drag it into the preview area and it appears on the slide surrounded by a box. You can grab the corners of the box and drag them to resize the clip art, or use the Size slider in the Properties panel. You can also reposition the art by dragging it. To remove it, right-click it on the slide preview, and then choose Delete.
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If you play around with Elements’ clip art costumes (hats, outfits, and glasses that you can paste onto your friends’ pictures), you may notice that you can’t rotate the clip art on the slide. If you want to adjust the angle of any of the costumes, here’s a workaround: All the art lives in C:\ProgramData\Adobe\Elements Organizer\10.0\Slideshow Graphics if you have Windows 7 or Vista, or C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Adobe\ Elements Organizer\10.0\Slideshow Graphics in Windows XP. (Program Data and Application Data are hidden folders, so you need to turn on hidden folder viewing to see them—the Tip on Tip explains how.) Open the slide in Full Edit, and then add the clip art there by importing it from the Graphics folder listed in the previous sentence. Then, use the Move tool to place the clip art just so, and use the transform commands (Transforming Images) to adjust the shape as needed. When you’re done, you can re-import the image into the Organizer as a version and then use that version in your slideshow. You can also open the clip art images themselves, change them, and then save them as PNG files under new names in the same folder as the originals; that way, they appear right in the Slide Show Editor’s clip art section along with the originals.
Text. You can add text to slides and apply a number of fancy styles to that text. Click the Text button at the top of the panel (the T), and then double-click the text style you like; the Edit Text window pops up (If the Elements launches the slideshow preview instead, just press Esc to get back to the Slide Show Editor and try again). Type in what you want to add to the slide and then click OK. The text appears in the slide, surrounded by a blue bounding box, which you can use to place the text. You can also drag a text style onto a slide and then, in the Properties panel, click the Edit Text button to enter your words.
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When the Edit Text window is active, you can’t click OK by pressing Enter—doing that just creates a line break in your text. You need to actually click the OK button with your mouse.
When you add text, the Text Properties panel appears at the lower right of the Slide Show Editor, where you can change the text’s font, size, color, and style. You can even choose a different drop-shadow color here if you’re using shadowed text. If you want to edit text later on, just click the letters on the slide to bring back the bounding box and the Text Properties panel.
Narration. You can record narration for your slideshow by clicking the slide you want to add your voice to, and then, in the Extras panel, clicking the Narration button (the blue microphone). Elements then displays the recording window shown in Figure 18-7. (Of course, you need to have some kind of microphone hooked up to your PC to record your voiceover.)
Figure 18-7. Adding narration to slides is pretty simple. Just click the red Record button and start talking, and then click it again when you’re done. Click the Play button to review what you did. If you don’t like how things turned out, click the trashcan icon, and then choose Delete This Narration. To permanently save your narration as an audio caption for the original photo, then turn on the “Save Narration as an Audio Caption” checkbox. You can also click the folder icon to the right of the recording controls to import an existing audio caption to use with this slide.
Music. If you want, you can add a full-scale soundtrack to a slideshow. To do that, click link at the bottom of the Slide Show Editor window that says, “Click Here to Add Audio to Your Slide Show.” In the window that opens, navigate to the audio file you want, and then click Open. You can choose from any MP3, WAV, AC3, AAC, or WMA files on your computer.
You can make the slideshow fit the duration of the music, if you like. At the top of the storyboard, click “Fit Slides to Audio” and Elements adjusts the duration of your slideshow to last the length of the song. Or, if you’d rather repeat a short audio clip over and over, go to Edit→Slide Show Preferences, and then turn on Repeat Soundtrack Until Last Slide. If you don’t turn on either of these settings, then Elements doesn’t make any attempt to synchronize the soundtrack and the slideshow.
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If you have problems getting the Organizer to play one of your audio files, then you may find you have better luck if you use an audio program to re-encode the file as a variable bit-rate MP3. (Check the audio program’s options or help files for instructions on how to do this.) If that doesn’t do it, make sure there isn’t any kind of DRM (digital rights management) restriction on the file, like a limit on the number of devices on which you can play it. If there is, Elements won’t like the file.
Pan & Zoom. Filmmaker Ken Burns popularized this technique, where the camera moves around a still photo, giving the impression of motion. To create this effect in Elements, just click the slide you want to pan over in the storyboard and then, in the Properties panel, turn on the Enable Pan & Zoom checkbox.
The Properties panel displays two little thumbnails labeled Start and End. Click the Start thumbnail to choose where to begin panning over the photo. A green box appears in your photo to show where Elements will begin panning over it. To change the starting point, drag the box to another spot or drag a corner to resize it.
Then, click the End thumbnail in the Properties panel and repeat the process with the red box that appears to set the end point for panning and zooming. If you decide you want to edit the effect, just click either thumbnail again to bring back the box. You can also click the buttons between the thumbnails to swap the start and end positions.
You can control the zoom level by resizing the start and end boxes. A small box makes the camera zoom in to fill the slide. For example, an end box that’s larger than the start box makes the camera zoom out.
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Panning and zooming may look pretty jerky when you preview your slideshow, but don’t worry about that—it should be smooth in the final slideshow.
You can also pan more than once on a slide. To do that, click “Add Another Pan & Zoom to this slide.” If you want all your slides (or selected slides) to use the same pan and zoom you just set up, go to the Edit menu and choose what you want to do: “Apply Pan & Zoom to Selected Slide(s)” or “Apply Pan & Zoom to All Slides.”
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While Elements doesn’t give you a way to create scrolling credits, you can fake them by creating a slide with a list of people you want to credit, and then applying the pan-and-zoom effect to the slide multiple times. So, for example, the first pan would zoom from the full frame to the first line or two of credits; then you’d apply another pan (without changing the zoom level) to move down to the next couple of lines, and so on, as many times as necessary to give everyone in the list their moment of glory.
After all the work you’ve done creating a slideshow, needless to say, you want to save it. (If you forget, Elements reminds you to do so when you exit the Slide Show Editor.)
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To watch a full-screen preview of your slideshow, click the aptly named Full Screen Preview button above the Panel bin or press F11. Press Esc to get back to the Slide Show Editor window.
Before saving, you need to decide what you want to do with the slideshow: burn it to a CD, email it as a file, and so on. It’s important to remember that no matter what you choose (except for saving as a PDF), you’re going to end up with a Windows Media Video (WMV) file. That doesn’t matter as long as everyone you want to share it with is using a computer or DVD player that uses a recent version of Windows Media Player. (It’s part of the Windows operating system [if you’ve disabled Windows updates, you can download the latest version from Microsoft]; for Macs, you can find a free plug-in at www.flip4mac.com.) But unfortunately, that’s not always the case.
If you want to send a slideshow to someone who doesn’t have a way to view WMV files, your options are to create a PDF file as explained on The Slide Show Editor (Windows only), upload your slideshow to YouTube (www.youtube.com) and send the link to your friends, or use other software to change the format to something your recipients have, like QuickTime. (You can upload to YouTube right from the Organizer: Just go to Share→Share Video with YouTube.)
To see your Output options, click the Output button at the top of the Slide Show Editor window. Elements opens the dialog box shown in Figure 18-8, where you can choose from several ways to save and share your slideshow.
Figure 18-8. Choose what you want to do from the list on the left (you always see Premiere Elements as a choice, even if you don’t have that program); the options on the right change to reflect your choice. If you’re creating a WMV file, then you get a number of different slide size options. For items that offer PAL and NTSC variations, PAL is the format to choose if you plan on viewing the slideshow in Europe or China; choose NTSC for most other places, including the U.S.
Save As a File. Choose this option to save your slideshow to your hard drive as a PDF or WMV file. If you select WMV, you get several choices for size and quality. Select the one that best suits how you plan to share the slideshow. (If you’re curious about the various options, pick the one you want to know more about, and then click the Details button; Elements displays a pop-up window with info about that size and its suggested uses.) The PDF options are explained on The Slide Show Editor (Windows only).
Burn to Disc. You can use Elements to create a Video CD (VCD), a disc that plays in a DVD player just like a regular DVD, but you don’t need a DVD recorder to create it (because you’re just using a plain old CD). The downside is that VCD is a tricky format—the quality is awful, and you can expect to have problems getting the discs to play in many DVD players. If you want to send VCDs, you may want to make a short test slideshow for your friends to be sure they can watch one before you invest a lot of time in creating a large project.
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If you’d like to check which players can handle VCDs, or if you just want to know more about the format, head over to www.videohelp.com/vcd, where you’ll find information and links to lists of compatible players.
You can include more than one slideshow on the same disc if you turn on the “Include additional slide shows I’ve made on this disc” checkbox. Then click OK to bring up the “Create a VCD with Menu” window and select the slideshows you want to include. In that window, you have to pick between the NTSC or PAL formats for your disc. Choose PAL if you’re sending the disc to Europe or China; choose NTSC for most other areas, including the United States. Then click Burn and Elements gets to work.
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If you also have Adobe’s Premiere Elements program (and a drive that can create DVDs), then you can send your slideshow to Premiere Elements to make a true DVD. If you have a DVD burner but not Premiere Elements, you can output the slideshow, and then use any other DVD-authoring software you’ve got loaded on your PC. If you have a DVD burner, you almost certainly got some kind of authoring software with it.
Edit with Premiere Elements. You can send a slideshow over to Premiere Elements for more editing. (You see this option even if you don’t have Premiere Elements installed, but clicking it just produces the suggestion to install Premiere Elements.)
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If you’d like Elements to keep an editable version of your slideshow that you can work on later, save it as a project file by clicking Save Project in the Slide Show Editor. To edit an existing slideshow, in the Organizer, just right-click its thumbnail, and choose Edit from the pop-up menu. Elements opens it in the Slide Show Editor so that you can make changes. If you don’t save the project file, you won’t have an editable slideshow anymore. (You can’t edit PDFs or WMVs in the Slide Show Editor.)