Creating Slideshows on DVD with Roxio Easy Media Creator 10 • Creating slideshows with synchronized music • Producing a DVD © 2007 Sonic Solutions. All rights reserved.
Introduction: This tutorial will demonstrate how to quickly and easily put photos of your grandchildren onto DVD to enjoy and share. I. Creating the Slideshow 1. Run Easy Media Creator 10 Suite, and click Create Slideshow (in the Photo section of the Project Pane). This opens Roxio’s Slideshow Assistant. 3. In the Slideshow Assistant, click Add Photos. 4. Add photos by: • Clicking any individual photo and then selecting Add Photos.
6. When you’ve got the pictures in the desired order, click Add Background Audio. 7. Click Add Audio Track to choose any audio file that you have on disk, or you can create new background music using SmartSound. Click Add SmartSound Audio to explore that option. The Slideshow Assistant opens the SmartSound Audio dialog. Here, you’ll choose your background music and customize its duration for your slideshow. 8. Here’s the process. a.
d. At any point in the process, you can click Preview/ Stop to preview your audio. e. After selecting your music, enter the desired Duration into the duration fields. As you can see on the right, the three counters are for hours, minutes and seconds. Then Click OK to close the SmartSound Audio dialog, and Click OK to close the Background Audio dialog. 9. On the bottom right of the Slideshow Assistant, click Next to move to page 2 of the Assistant. 10.
12. Click Apply Pan & Zoom to all, if desired. This adds motion effects to the photos like you see on TV. Very artsy. 13. On the bottom left of the Slideshow Assistance, Click Preview to preview your slideshow. 14. When everything is in order, click Finish to open the Output dialog. 15. In the Output dialog, you’ve got lots of options. You can: • Save this Project, which you probably should before taking any further steps. • Burn to Disc, which we’ll do in a moment.
2. MyDVD Express has lots of creative options, as you can see on the left toolbar. For example, you can click: • Change Menu Style, to see other menu design options. • Change Menu Background, to change the menu’s background image. • Project Settings, to adjust project design and encoding settings (but you probably don’t need to adjust any before producing your first disc). • Edit in MyDVD. MyDVD is Easy Media Creator’s full-featured authoring program, which offers additional customization options.
