Photo Story 3 Maximum Picture Limit

I am using MS Photo Story 3 to create a 50th wedding anniversary slide show
for my mother and father-in-law. I have around 800 pictures that I want to
include in the show. However, in reading about Photo Story, I discovered
that there is a 300 picture maximum. Is there any way to extend this? Can
you create 3 stories and merge them on to one DVD to play seamlessly? Do I
need a different software package? If so is there anything as user friendly
as MS Photo Story? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you,

Jeff

No, you can't extend the 300 picture limit. You can go two ways....

1 - If you put a number of videos on a DVD, there's just a second or two
pause between them.

2 - You can combine multiple stories into a movie using Movie Maker

In either case, you can't put the stories or movies directly onto the
DVDs... they need conversion to MPEG2 files, something done by your DVD
making software, not Photo Story or Movie Maker

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website references are to www.papajohn.org

PapaJohn (MVP)


"Jeff" <Jeff@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:AF7B1341-E787-4867-B309-3B743F7E5E5E@microsoft.com...
>I am using MS Photo Story 3 to create a 50th wedding anniversary slide show
> for my mother and father-in-law. I have around 800 pictures that I want
> to
> include in the show. However, in reading about Photo Story, I discovered
> that there is a 300 picture maximum. Is there any way to extend this?
> Can
> you create 3 stories and merge them on to one DVD to play seamlessly? Do
> I
> need a different software package? If so is there anything as user
> friendly
> as MS Photo Story? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thank you,
>
> Jeff

Jeff wrote:
> I am using MS Photo Story 3 to create a 50th wedding anniversary slide show
> for my mother and father-in-law. I have around 800 pictures that I want to
> include in the show. However, in reading about Photo Story, I discovered
> that there is a 300 picture maximum. Is there any way to extend this? Can
> you create 3 stories and merge them on to one DVD to play seamlessly? Do I
> need a different software package? If so is there anything as user friendly
> as MS Photo Story? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

The easiest way to proceed is to make your show in 4 or 5 sections,
then use a DVD-creating program (like Nero) to combine them into a
single DVD, perhaps with chapters.

When you play a DVD with chapters, they will play seamlessly--but you
will want a song to end at the end of a chapter.

To avoid "weirdness", try to stay well below Photo Story's limits.
(Lots of music also counts against the limit.)

-michael

"The wastebasket is our most important design
tool--and it's seriously underused."

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



"Jeff" <Jeff@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:AF7B1341-E787-4867-B309-3B743F7E5E5E@microsoft.com...
>I am using MS Photo Story 3 to create a 50th wedding anniversary slide show
> for my mother and father-in-law. I have around 800 pictures that I want
> to
> include in the show. However, in reading about Photo Story, I discovered
> that there is a 300 picture maximum. Is there any way to extend this?
> Can
> you create 3 stories and merge them on to one DVD to play seamlessly? Do
> I
> need a different software package? If so is there anything as user
> friendly
> as MS Photo Story? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thank you,
>
> Jeff

What I do is make my slideshows and then open up my Windows Movie maker and
add my slideshow video files in them. Then you can go to the tools and add
title and credits.

Here's a sample of what you can do using the two program

http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...77943324728242

Laura Kidd

"Jeff" wrote:

> I am using MS Photo Story 3 to create a 50th wedding anniversary slide show
> for my mother and father-in-law. I have around 800 pictures that I want to
> include in the show. However, in reading about Photo Story, I discovered
> that there is a 300 picture maximum. Is there any way to extend this? Can
> you create 3 stories and merge them on to one DVD to play seamlessly? Do I
> need a different software package? If so is there anything as user friendly
> as MS Photo Story? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thank you,
>
> Jeff

After you follow Laura's suggestion, you must burn your finished *.WMV file
to DVD.

You will probably need a third-party authoring system to burn to DVD.

John Inzer frequently recommends

For that...you need DVD authoring software...
the following freeware may be worth a try:

DVD Flick
http://www.dvdflick.net/

Be sure to read the Guide:
http://www.dvdflick.net/guide.php


Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP

On Wed, 6 Aug 2008 05:38:01 -0700, Laura <Laura@discussions.microsoft.com>
wrote:

>What I do is make my slideshows and then open up my Windows Movie maker and
>add my slideshow video files in them. Then you can go to the tools and add
>title and credits.
>
>Here's a sample of what you can do using the two program
>
>http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...77943324728242
>
>Laura Kidd
>
>"Jeff" wrote:
>
>> I am using MS Photo Story 3 to create a 50th wedding anniversary slide show
>> for my mother and father-in-law. I have around 800 pictures that I want to
>> include in the show. However, in reading about Photo Story, I discovered
>> that there is a 300 picture maximum. Is there any way to extend this? Can
>> you create 3 stories and merge them on to one DVD to play seamlessly? Do I
>> need a different software package? If so is there anything as user friendly
>> as MS Photo Story? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>>
>> Thank you,
>>
>> Jeff