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Roxio EMC 7.5 slideshow problem
I purchased a copy of Roxio Easy Media Creator 7.5 with my Dell Inspiron 6000 recently and want to make a slideshow of photos. I opened Roxio and selected Create Slideshow from the photo menu. This caused Sonic MyDVD LE to open. I was then promted to chose between creating a DVD or VCD. After chosing the type of disk the program opened the main interface but it will not allow me to create a slideshow: It says that MyDVD LE does not support slideshows and then brings up a website saying that it will cost 30 British pounds to make slideshows. What is going on here??? I paid money for Roxio Easy Media Creator so that I could make slideshows as is on its front menu, but I get the impression that this software is falsely advertising itself to do things that require more money to be spent...
Jim Hardin
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Posted November 12th, 2005 11:00
I believe that if you have a previous version of MyDVD installed, the Roxio installer will not overwrite it.
Uninstall MyDVD, reboot then use Roxio's install to Change the instillation adding MyDVD Slideshow.
Note: MyDVD Slideshow is an OK quickie program. Most users build their slideshow in VideoWave then import that project to DVD Builder to finish and burn.- I also purchased a copy of Roxio Easy Media Creator 7.5 with my Dell Dimension and wanted to make a slideshow. I opened Roxio and selected Create slide show. This caused Sonic MyDVD LE to open. I was then promted to chose between creating a DVD or VCD. After chosing each, the type of disk the program opened the main interface but it will not allow me to create a slideshow: An error message states, "My DVD LE does not support slideshows." Need to upgrade. This is a brand new Program CD. Can not use slideshow at all. No info on Sonic web site. No troubleshooting.
fireberd
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Posted November 12th, 2005 09:00
I'm not sure about what you have installed. I have the full retail version of Roxio V7.5. When I open slide show, Sonic My DVD Slideshow does come up. This is because Sonic now owns Roxio and some of the modules/applications in Roxio V7.5 actually use Sonic modules.
As far as the "LE" coming up. It sounds like both the basic Sonic version that Dell supplies as the default CD/DVD burner program and Roxio are both installed on your PC and the "LE" version of Sonic is defaulted for that function. Because both programs are intertwined and may use some of the same modules this is probably causing the conflict. If you have the reinstallation CD for Roxio (and you can confirm that it contains all the various modules in V7.5) then consider uninstalling Sonic Record Now LE and Roxio V7.5, restart Windows and then do a fresh install of Roxio 7.5 and that should correct the problem.