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Summary: Too buggy, don't forget to install retail patch!! :(
Review: At first glance this product seem to have everything I expected; easy GUI, quick learning curve, clean output. Then I realized it started locking up for no reason. I installed the retail patch and other patches available on Ulead's web site. After these patches were installed I found the program still locked up several times at different points. One point was during the changing of an audio track (happened more than once!). Another time was during the recording of a CD using a different application. It's not a hardware problem as my new Dell PC has the extreme best of everything. I've also found that reinstalling the program and reinstalling the retail patch clears up my problems, at least temporarily. Then it's time to reinstall. I've reinstalled about six different times. I recommend you save your money even if it seems like this might be the best program. Too buggy, bad customer service, bad programming - period. I just hope I can get a refund. PS - I'm a software programmer myself and this type of beta testing on consumers makes me feel ill and gives our trade a bad name.
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Summary: Too buggy, don't forget to install retail patch!! :(
Review: At first glance this product seem to have everything I expected; easy GUI, quick learning curve, clean output. Then I realized it started locking up for no reason. I installed the retail patch and other patches available on Ulead's web site. After these patches were installed I found the program still locked up several times at different points. One point was during the changing of an audio track (happened more than once!). Another time was during the recording of a CD using a different application. It's not a hardware problem as my new Dell PC has the extreme best of everything. I've also found that reinstalling the program and reinstalling the retail patch clears up my problems, at least temporarily. Then it's time to reinstall. I've reinstalled about six different times. I recommend you save your money even if it seems like this might be the best program. Too buggy, bad customer service, bad programming - period. I just hope I can get a refund. PS - I'm a software programmer myself and this type of beta testing on consumers makes me feel ill and gives our trade a bad name.
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Summary: THE BEST PRODUCT FOR A SLIDE SHOW ON YOUR TV!!!
Review: I bought DVD PictureShow 2 after being extremely frustrated with Roxio DVD creator. I was trying to put a very large slideshow together for my daughter's wedding. It was a snap.1. Easy ability to import a zillion digital images. 2. Then the program will fill your TV with each image, even if the sizes are not the same. 3. It is true, you have to build an audio track using a sound editor, if you want more than one song on the Slide Show. I used Audio Surgeon to match major theme changes to the music. For example, I wanted Song XX to start on slide number 225. At 3 seconds per slide, that occured at 675 seconds, or 11 minutes and 15 seconds into the slide show. With the sound editor I built a single .mp3 track to swap songs at 11 minutes and 15 seconds. The rub is "Will DVD PictureShow 2 be as accurate after 11 minutes of flipping 225 slides?" YES!!!! It was perfect!! 4. We did have problems playing a DVD in an older Toshiba DVD Player, but it has worked flawlessly in every other one we tried. Compared to the other things I have tried, this product is world's ahead. Get it. Hope this helps.
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Summary: THE BEST PRODUCT FOR A SLIDE SHOW ON YOUR TV!!!
Review: I bought DVD PictureShow 2 after being extremely frustrated with Roxio DVD creator. I was trying to put a very large slideshow together for my daughter's wedding. It was a snap. 1. Easy ability to import a zillion digital images. 2. Then the program will fill your TV with each image, even if the sizes are not the same. 3. It is true, you have to build an audio track using a sound editor, if you want more than one song on the Slide Show. I used Audio Surgeon to match major theme changes to the music. For example, I wanted Song XX to start on slide number 225. At 3 seconds per slide, that occured at 675 seconds, or 11 minutes and 15 seconds into the slide show. With the sound editor I built a single .mp3 track to swap songs at 11 minutes and 15 seconds. The rub is "Will DVD PictureShow 2 be as accurate after 11 minutes of flipping 225 slides?" YES!!!! It was perfect!! 4. We did have problems playing a DVD in an older Toshiba DVD Player, but it has worked flawlessly in every other one we tried. Compared to the other things I have tried, this product is world's ahead. Get it. Hope this helps.
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Summary: Good for burning DVD's, not for VCD's ...
Review: I bought this software mainly for burning DVD's, and not for VCD's on my CD writer. I did, however, burn a VCD Picture Show file onto a CD-R and when I played it on my computer, the pictures looked really bad. After reading the manual, I discovered that if you burn a VCD with transitions, the slideshow is written in very low resolution (352x240), as opposed to creating a slideshow with no transitions (704x480). One of the best features of this program (or any slideshow program) is the ablility to have really cool transitions from one picture to the next and with the VCD format, you really can't use them unless you like looking at a very degraded version of your original image. On the other hand, the DVD burning part of the program is very good. The pictures look close to the original photos that you use, although not perfect. If you start out with very high quality images, you'll be very happy. However, the pictures seem to lose a little bit between viewing the originals on my computer screen and transferring and burning them to a Picture Show. All in all, a very good program for burning DVD's but for creating VCD's, I would look elsewhere.
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Summary: DVD Pictureshow 2
Review: I find ULEAD DVD Pictureshow 2 EZ to use on my computer running windows ME , but it dosen't want to run right on my computer with windows XP.Its been fun to make DVDs photoshows that I can show people that don't have computers. I did downloaded the trial before I bother to buy it.
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Summary: Try it out, People!
Review: I have a full review of this product under the first version but the bottom line is you need to use the trial version before you buy this excellent program. It worked fine for me under XP with my burner, but there are literally millions of combinations of CD burners, operating systems, and drivers that no one program can support all. Roxio CD Creator (one of the worst CD burner programs to come along in a long time) works intermittently on my own system, for example, while Picture Show works fine. If you have broadband the 38meg trial won't be a program for you. Those without can purchase (for a couple of bucks) the demo disk. But I have to say that anyone with a digital camera, a CD burner, and a DVD player ought to have this program.
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Summary: Try it out, People!
Review: I have a full review of this product under the first version but the bottom line is you need to use the trial version before you buy this excellent program.
It worked fine for me under XP with my burner, but there are literally millions of combinations of CD burners, operating systems, and drivers that no one program can support all. Roxio CD Creator (one of the worst CD burner programs to come along in a long time) works intermittently on my own system, for example, while Picture Show works fine. If you have broadband the 38meg trial won't be a program for you. Those without can purchase (for a couple of bucks) the demo disk. But I have to say that anyone with a digital camera, a CD burner, and a DVD player ought to have this program.
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Summary: Works for me
Review: I have used this program to make 10 different DVD's and it has worked great for me. I have no complaints. It's very simple to use. One thing that would be nice is the ability to put more than one audio track per slide show. I had to use an audio editor to splice together music tracks to to make the audio track long enough. Now, the program simply loops the same track. I really like the concept of viewing your pictures on TV, they are so big. The pictures look good too.
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Summary: Works for me
Review: I have used this program to make 10 different DVD's and it has worked great for me. I have no complaints. It's very simple to use. One thing that would be nice is the ability to put more than one audio track per slide show. I had to use an audio editor to splice together music tracks to to make the audio track long enough. Now, the program simply loops the same track. I really like the concept of viewing your pictures on TV, they are so big. The pictures look good too.
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