Making a photo video CD is a good way of displaying your photos on TV. You can either make a photo VCD or output the finished video back to videotape. Another good reason is to mix still images with video. (e.g.: having stills of the wedding running after the wedding video).

To make a Photo Video:
First put all the photos that you want to use for the video in a folder, and use deferent folders for deferent albums. (e.g.. Wedding, Christmas and so on.) Then resize the photos to suit the video. ( Somewhere near 720x576) Not any smaller as the images will look stretched on screen.
Now import the photos into the video program that you are using. Then drag them in the order that you want them to play into the storyline.

Its important to set the still image duration to at least 5 seconds, and if you use transactions between every image set the still image duration to at least 7 seconds. Do not have the still image duration set any longer as it causes the image to become blurry on screen. ( You will find the still duration setting in the file menu in Videowave, with Videostudio you get the option to set the duration just before you say yes to import the photos.)

You will find the still duration setting in the file menu.

Then when you have all the photos that you want in the storyline, you can now add background music or voice-over to the video. With V-Wave and V-Studio it does not matter too much if the music duration is longer than the video itself, as you can use the fade in fade out effect.

Now all you got to do is to render the project. If its for VCD (video CD ) you must render the file in the Mpeg 1 VCD PAL format. Then Burn to disk and play it back on you'r DVD player.
If you want to out put the Photo video file to video it's better to render the file as MPEG 2 format (higher quality than MPEG1). Then play it back with the Windows Media player and use the TV out option on your graphics card to record to video tape.
If your graphics card do not have TV out and you use the Studio MP10 capture card do the photo video in the Studio PC program that came with the capture card and out put to video from there. Studio PC version that comes with the MP10 does not let you save the file in VCD format. But you can still use it to save the file as an AVI file, then import it into V wave or V studio and render it as a MPEG 1 VCD file.

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