Photo Story 3 - audio plays in preview but not in Windows Media Pl

[lavida]

After creating my 1st photo story 3, I added music, transitions, edited
pictures, previewed over and over again until I was happy; saved it, clicked
to view it, opened up in Windows Media Player, the video is great, but
there's NO AUDIO.
I used 2 songs from my music file, both are mp3, so what's wrong?

Any ideas greatly appreciated!

 

[lavida]

10:35 worth of pictures & audio; 27,418 kb.
Created a TEST story with 275 kb: 2 pics, a few seconds of audio and it
worked fine.
Appreciate your prompt reply.

 

[lavida]

After sending this out, I looked at my files and I created several photo
story's considerably longer, with audio - 218,576 kb is one of them which
works fine. HELP!

 

[lavida]

There's more to it than that. I happened to look further and found the
following

Subject: Re: Photo Story 3 Maximum Picture Limit 7/17/2008 5:36 PM PST
By: Young Snodgrass In: microsoft.public.windowsxp.photos

Hello Jeff:

As you may know, PhotoStory does panning and the neat transitions between
photos, and you can easily add the audio or titles to each photo.

Movie Maker will accept individual .jpg files, but you must individually
select the transitions and the panning. It's all very time consuming to do
manually! PhotoStory is such a great program!

And as they said, your picture limit with PhotoStory is far less than 300
photos when you add in the music and the transitions.

What I've done in the past is do a lead-in with a PhotoStory and then save
it as a .wmv file. Then go to Movie Maker and start with the PhotoStory
...wmv, then add the individual jpg (photos) files to make the rest of the
presentation. You can add the music to the Movie Maker story and save it as
a wmv file.

Then you convert the wmv file to a MPEG (like a video movie.) Works slick!

Make certain you understand and have a program to convert the .wmv to the
right type of MPEG!

Good Luck with your 50th anniversary presentation. Everyone is going to
want a copy! (My wife and I get to celebrate our 50th Anniversary this year!
I'd better get started working on a presentation one of these days real soon
now!)

Cordially yours,

Young Snodgrass