Putting Photos Onto Vcd

steve takacs · Post by **steve takacs** » 9 Jul 2002 12:25 pm

Can anyone explain what I would have to do to put old black and white photos onto a VCD disk? Thank you, Steve

Bill Moore · Post by **Bill Moore** » 9 Jul 2002 3:10 pm

Steve, Photos, black and white or color, need to be digitized, most likely by scanning them. Usually it's best to scan black and white photos as RGB, or the same as color photos. After there're stored on the computer you can transfer them to a cd for storage. I'm not sure what vcd means, but it is no problem storing them on CDR's. Hope this helps.

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Mark Ardito · Post by **Mark Ardito** » 10 Jul 2002 6:09 am

Steve,

VCD discs are CD's that can be played in some DVD players. Do you want to have some old B&W photos onto a VCD that can be played like a movie?

Mark

steve takacs · Post by **steve takacs** » 10 Jul 2002 7:26 am

Thanks for the input, Bill and Mark. I was not looking for anything "Spillbergesque", just a way to have the photos on a CDR. I guess storing them on a regular 3.5" disk would also work, eh?

Mark Ardito · Post by **Mark Ardito** » 10 Jul 2002 7:35 am

Steve,

You can fit a ton of photos on a CDR. That is the best bet for keeping old photos. Just scan them and save them either as .jpg or .bmp files then burn a CD of that folder.

Mark

Bobby Bensley · Post by **Bobby Bensley** » 10 Jul 2002 2:15 pm

Hi, a standard 3.5 inch floppy disk is not very practical for image storage as they have such a limited storage capacity 1.44 meg one relatively high quality image can easily exceed this size.

An 80 min. CD-R will hold 800 meg which translates into a whole bunch of photos even at a large size and high resolution.

Also many current CD burning programs will have a setting in them that will automatically configure your files into a Slide show for onscreen viewing.

One such program that comes to mind is Adaptec EZ CD Creator(now Roxio)

This software has been a standard bundled product with many CD burners and new systems for a couple years now so it should be easy to find and versions as far back as at least 4.1 support photo album creation on CD.

Peace,

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Bobby Bensley -JavaMusic A&R

Bill Ford · Post by **Bill Ford** » 15 Jul 2002 5:30 pm

Steve,
Don't do floppies, they are magnetic and can be erased if it is around a magnet.
LIke everyone says,put em in a file, burn em on a cd and you got em.

Bill

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