[stillwaterga]

Hi,
I just got FM Pro and it makes great slideshows! I'd love to be able to show them on my laptop which is a PC (Windows Vista). Making a CD doesn't work and the DVD I made on iDVD was really poor. Do I have options?
Thanks
Stephanie

[stillwaterga]

Hi,
I just got FM Pro and it makes great slideshows! I'd love to be able to show them on my laptop which is a PC (Windows Vista). Making a CD doesn't work and the DVD I made on iDVD was really poor. Do I have options?
Thanks
Stephanie

[Vincent Ferrari]

I generally find that the best way to share slideshows with Windows users is to make a high-res QuickTime file and share it that way. DVDs are never a good option for a computer screen because they show in Standard Defintion and if you take pictures with anything more than a 1.3 MP camera, they look significantly degraded from the original.

Try outputting in Quicktime at the native resolution for your laptop's screen and you should be pretty happy with the result. The only caveat may be figuring out if your laptop can play back an H.264 file of that size reliably, but you can tweak the settings until it comes out right for you.

I hope that helped!

[stillwaterga]

Originally Posted by Vincent Ferrari

I generally find that the best way to share slideshows with Windows users is to make a high-res QuickTime file and share it that way. DVDs are never a good option for a computer screen because they show in Standard Defintion and if you take pictures with anything more than a 1.3 MP camera, they look significantly degraded from the original.

Try outputting in Quicktime at the native resolution for your laptop's screen and you should be pretty happy with the result. The only caveat may be figuring out if your laptop can play back an H.264 file of that size reliably, but you can tweak the settings until it comes out right for you.

I hope that helped!

Hi Vincent,
It might help if I had some understanding of Quicktime (boy, am I limited....). If I output the slideshow in Quicktime I will still be on my Mac Pro. Can I then burn a CD? If not, how can I see it on the laptop?
Thanks
Stephanie

[Vincent Ferrari]

Originally Posted by stillwaterga

Hi Vincent,
It might help if I had some understanding of Quicktime (boy, am I limited....). If I output the slideshow in Quicktime I will still be on my Mac Pro. Can I then burn a CD? If not, how can I see it on the laptop?
Thanks
Stephanie

You can burn it to a CD or DVD and as long as Quicktime is installed on the computer you want to play it on. You could even put the resulting Quicktime file on a thumbdrive and display it that way!

[stillwaterga]

Originally Posted by Vincent Ferrari

You can burn it to a CD or DVD and as long as Quicktime is installed on the computer you want to play it on. You could even put the resulting Quicktime file on a thumbdrive and display it that way!

THANK YOU!
Stephanie