I've spend the last few weeks setting up a DVD that consists of a video and a photo gallery. Today I tried the 'Make DVD' function to see if there were any errors in the project... and there's one major one.
Turns out I have too many 'unique media' elements.
I had made 5 menu pages, and dragged a number of still photos into each to create a thumbnail gallery with each thumbnail automatically creating a link to it's fullscreen version. Seemed great, but now I find that the DVD won't be created, because there's too many unique media elements (...that being the photos).
This is a devistating blow, as this is for my parent's 50th anniversary coming up at the end of the month. I was so close to finishing this, and now this happens... I wasn't aware this would be an issue... and now I find this out, right after finally finishing all the thumbnail galleries...
Can anyone suggest any way I can salvage this? I basically had 5 categories, each containing between 1-3 pages (each with a maximum of 21 thumbnails). I think there's a total of 240 photos.
I suppose I could do a photo compilation... but then I lose the nice thumbnails, and the viewer would have to sit through all the photos being shown one after the other, rather than going to the one they wanted.
[Later addition]
I was thinking of creating a menu page, but in it only have a single image (making it the background, but not having it 'stretch to fit', and a 'next page' button.... and then do an Add Page, and put the next photo (and a Previous and Next button), and then add a new page, and put the third image on, etc
1) Would that too have the same 'unique media' restriction?
2) Is each menu page considered a 'Chapter'?
3) Is there ANY other way to do a photo gallery... ideally one where you go go to a particular image, or at least be able to navigate through them (rather than just watching them go by sequentially)?
Turns out I have too many 'unique media' elements.
I had made 5 menu pages, and dragged a number of still photos into each to create a thumbnail gallery with each thumbnail automatically creating a link to it's fullscreen version. Seemed great, but now I find that the DVD won't be created, because there's too many unique media elements (...that being the photos).
This is a devistating blow, as this is for my parent's 50th anniversary coming up at the end of the month. I was so close to finishing this, and now this happens... I wasn't aware this would be an issue... and now I find this out, right after finally finishing all the thumbnail galleries...
Can anyone suggest any way I can salvage this? I basically had 5 categories, each containing between 1-3 pages (each with a maximum of 21 thumbnails). I think there's a total of 240 photos.
I suppose I could do a photo compilation... but then I lose the nice thumbnails, and the viewer would have to sit through all the photos being shown one after the other, rather than going to the one they wanted.
[Later addition]
I was thinking of creating a menu page, but in it only have a single image (making it the background, but not having it 'stretch to fit', and a 'next page' button.... and then do an Add Page, and put the next photo (and a Previous and Next button), and then add a new page, and put the third image on, etc
1) Would that too have the same 'unique media' restriction?
2) Is each menu page considered a 'Chapter'?
3) Is there ANY other way to do a photo gallery... ideally one where you go go to a particular image, or at least be able to navigate through them (rather than just watching them go by sequentially)?