Getting pictures from another drive

[Guest]

How do you tell movie maker to get the pictures from another drive? I
already have a movie maker file set up, and am trying to burn it to a dvd.
The dvd burner is built into the tower, but I have to put the CD that
contains the pictures into that drive. When I put the picture CD into my
other CD burner, it doesn't bring in the pictures from that drive. I can
import them, but the "X"s are in the storyline. Once I put the picture CD
back into my tower, the pictures fill in the storyline.

 

[John Inzer]

How do you tell movie maker to get the pictures from another drive? I
already have a movie maker file set up, and am trying to burn it to a
dvd. The dvd burner is built into the tower, but I have to put the CD
that contains the pictures into that drive. When I put the picture
CD into my other CD burner, it doesn't bring in the pictures from
that drive. I can import them, but the "X"s are in the storyline.
Once I put the picture CD back into my tower, the pictures fill in
the storyline.

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Why not copy the pictures to your
hard drive and direct Movie Maker
to find them there?

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John Inzer
MS Picture It! -
Digital Image MVP

Digital Image
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This is not tech support
I am a volunteer

Solutions that work for
me may not work for you

Proceed at your own risk

 

[Wojo]

What John said is the best solution so the pics are available whenever you
want them.
For a quick fix put the CD in the other drive and right click the X's in the
storyline and click "Browse for Missing Files" point Movie Maker to the CD
and the file you clicked on and it should find the rest of them
automatically freeing up the burning drive.
Alternately save the movie to your harddrive so you would not need the
picture disk anymore and work with the video from there.

 

[Guest]

Awesome....thank you guys...didn't even see that before...

I don't like them on the hard drive because it takes up alot of space...i'm
using over 400 pictures for this project and if the computer crashes, then I
would lose them.

Now, I just have to figure out how to make my burned DVD compatible with my
DVD players...so far, I have had no luck with that...I have until graduation
day, 6/2 to figure this all out.

Again, thank you for your help....

 

[John Inzer]

Awesome....thank you guys...didn't even see that before...

I don't like them on the hard drive because it takes up alot of
space...i'm using over 400 pictures for this project and if the
computer crashes, then I would lose them.

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In the case of a crash you would only lose
the pix you copied to the hard drive...the
originals would still be on the CD.
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Now, I just have to figure out how to make my burned DVD compatible
with my DVD players...so far, I have had no luck with that...I have
until graduation day, 6/2 to figure this all out.

Again, thank you for your help....

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The brand / type of DVD you use has a
lot to do with it. I've had good luck with
the following...(no guarantees but maybe
you could also):

Verbatim DVD-R 16X
http://tinyurl.com/y59z9e

Maybe the following links will help you
create the DVD.

Turn your Movie Maker 2
video into a DVD
http://tinyurl.com/4k97d

Wojo's Web...DVD Creation
http://tinyurl.com/g64gb

Burn a Movie Maker Project to DVD
http://tinyurl.com/644me

How do I make a DVD
http://www.rehanfx.org/faq.htm

Windows Movie Maker Forums
http://www.windowsmoviemakers.net/forums/

Movie Maker 2 and DVD Burning Software
http://www.papajohn.org/MM2-DVD.html

Burning DVDs With Windows Movie Maker 2
http://tinyurl.com/jqfz

How do I save my movie as a
DV-AVI file in Movie Maker?
http://tinyurl.com/8ktlw


--
John Inzer
MS Picture It! -
Digital Image MVP

Digital Image
Highlights and FAQs
http://tinyurl.com/aczzp

Notice
This is not tech support
I am a volunteer

Solutions that work for
me may not work for you

Proceed at your own risk