Burn Photos on Dvds for Storage and Share
Posted on Apr 18, 2010 under Time Share |
Now today in a digital world, many digital photographers always face to tons of digital photos in the laptop and confuse how to deposit and share in a better way. As a shutterbug, I prefer to put photos on DVDs for storage and share.
DVDs are a great way to backup photos from computer for storage and share. With inexpensive prices, a standard single layer DVD can store 4.7GB of data while a dual layer one has a capacity of 8.5GB and both easily to be burned copies by common DVD writer for share. For larger capacity, Blu-ray disc (25 GB single layer, 50 GB dual layer, 100GB 4 layer, 200GB 8 layer) may be a better choice. But problems of these high-tech products are not only the costliness of BD discs, reader, writer and player but also the non-popular of use and result in the disaster of share. So, I still use the common DVDs.
In order to start putting photos on DVDs, a DVD writer is needed. The speed of the writer all depends on what type of DVD drive you have. 1X DVD write speed indicates that the DVD writer can burn your data roughly the same speed that a DVD player can read a DVD. So if your DVD writer writes at 16X that’s 16 times faster.
You don’t need to burn a specially formatted disc but just a regular data DVD full of digital photos if you own a DVD player with built-in slide-show features for viewing JPEG images. Lots of new type DVD players have the features such as Sony DVP-NS57P, Pioneer DV-490V-S, LG DN788, Panasonic DVD-S53S/K, Philips DVP5982 and etc. Different types of players with different play menu, photo quantity limitation and so on. So, DVDs display in this style via my Sony player but that on my friend’s Panasonic.
If your DVD player doesn’t have such features, creating DVD photo slide shows via apps will be help and it is a much more stunning and professional way for storage and share. Bellows are kinds of apps.
1. Free apps that can create photo slideshows.
Google’s Picasa, is a free software download from Google. Picasa can make photo slideshows with simple clicks and copy files to DVD media using both the “Backup” and “Gift CD” features, but DVDs create by Picasa can not be played on all types of DVD players.
Windows Movie Maker 2, included free in XP and Vista, helps to create AVI or WMA slideshows. Although it doesn’t natively burn DVDs playable by many DVD players, Windows Movie Maker has many powerful features (say exquisite effects) to magnetize users and adding DVD writing capabilities to Windows Movie Maker with inexpensive applications will figure it out.
2. Commercial apps wholly make for creating DVD slide shows.
Nero PhotoShow Deluxe 5 ($39.99) is famous and powerful software which includes a massive amount of slide-show-authoring options for photo DVDs. Nero has a 15-day trial for PhotoShow Deluxe, while the free PhotoDVD trial lets you create slide shows with up to 100 images. As a sub-product from Nero, it has highly stability on its writing capability.
DVD Slideshow Builder 4 ($39.95), another professional and popular app that can create DVD photo slideshows with photos, video clips and music in high-resolution HD DVD video format and burn directly. It provides a free trial version with Watermark on output, 30-day trial limitation. What it attract me is its plenty 2D/3D transitions and Ken-Burns effects.
Although photo online sharing is a hot trend, such as Flickr.com, DVDs displayed via TV set and player can not be instead by other things. It is in a popular style for years.
Jessica Smith
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April 18th, 2010 at 1:34 am
Can you burn DVDS with this macbook?
Just wanted to make sure you can burn DVDS with the Apple® - MacBook® Pro with 13.3" Display - Aluminum
Product Features
* Intel® Core™2 Duo mobile processor
With 1066MHz frontside bus, 3MB shared L2 cache and 2.26GHz processor speed.
* 2GB DDR3 SDRAM
For multitasking power, expandable to 8GB.
* Slot-loading multiformat DVD±RW/CD-RW SuperDrive with double-layer support
Records up to 8.5GB of data or 4 hours of video using compatible DVD+R DL and DVD-R DL media.
* 13.3" widescreen TFT-LCD display
With 1280 x 800 resolution to bring your games and movies to life.
* 160GB Serial ATA hard drive (5400 rpm)
Provides plenty of storage space and fast read/write times.
* NVIDIA GeForce 9400M graphics
With 256MB of DDR3 SDRAM shared video memory for lush images. Mini DisplayPort output with support for DVI, VGA and dual-link DVI outputs (requires optional adapters; not included).
* See the benefits of an NVIDIA graphics processor in your laptop.
* Digital media card slot
Supports Secure Digital card formats for easy data transfer.
* 1 Firewire port (800 Mbps) and 2 high-speed USB 2.0 ports; built-in Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR wireless interface
Provide quick and simple connection for digital peripherals.
* Built-in AirPort Extreme wireless network connection (802.11a/b/g/n)
For easy wireless connectivity.
* Built-in 10/100/1000Base-T Gigabit Ethernet LAN
Supports an easy wired connection to the Internet.
* Built-in iSight webcam, stereo speakers and omnidirectional microphone
Make it easy to video chat with friends and family.
* Solid-state trackpad
With 2-finger scrolling, pinch, rotate, swipe, 3-finger swipe, 4-finger swipe, tap, double-tap and drag capabilities for precise navigation.
* Weighs 4.5 lbs. and measures only 1" thin
For easy portability.
* Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard included
To provide the latest Mac operating platform. Snow Leopard upgrade is either on a disc in the box or preinstalled on the computer.
* Software package included
With Time Machine, Spotlight, iChat, Safari, iCal, DVD Player, Front Row, Photo Booth, Xcode Developer Tools, iLife ‘09 (includes iTunes, iPhoto, iMovie, iDVD, iWeb, GarageBand) and more.
* ENERGY STAR qualified
Designed to use less energy and meets strict energy efficiency guidelines set by the Environmental Protection Agency and U.S. Department of Energy.
* Apple, PowerBook, AirPort, FireWire, QuickTime, iTunes and Mac OS are trademarks of Apple Computer, Inc., registered in the U.S. and other countries. Velocity Engine, SuperDrive and iLife are trademarks of Apple Computer, Inc.
* Intel, Pentium, Celeron, Centrino, Core, Intel Inside and the Intel Inside logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Intel Corporation or its subsidiaries in the United States and other countries.
Thank you
April 18th, 2010 at 6:36 am
Yes, you definitely can - the confirmation for this is in the description you posted:
> Slot-loading multiformat DVD±RW/CD-RW SuperDrive with
> double-layer support
> Records up to 8.5GB of data or 4 hours of video using
> compatible DVD+R DL and DVD-R DL media
So, you can burn both single-layer and dual-layer DVD media!
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April 18th, 2010 at 6:38 am
This DVD Creator for Mac provides an easy and fast way to convert AVI to DVD, MPEG to DVD, DivX to DVD, WMV to DVD, and burn DVD movie, burn DVD folder to DVD, DVD ISO file to DVD for Mac!
http://www.macdvdconverter.com/mac-dvd-creator.html
Here is a step by step guide about how to burn all popular video formats (AVI, MP4, M4V, MPA, MPG, MPEG, MOV,3GP, 3GP2, FLV,VOB, DAT, TS, TP, TRP, M2TS, etc) to DVD disk which can be played on portable and home DVD players.
http://www.macdvdconverter.com/guides/mac-dvd-creator-guide-iskysoft.html
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