PSE8 - Slideshow not burning

I have recently purchased PSE8 and started a new Album of photos I want to use in a slideshow. But in attempting to created this I have encountered the following problems:
- Everything works to the point of burning the slideshow. Physically you can track the system as it goes through each step in the process right down to poping the CD tray on completing the burn. The CD-RW used is new and undamaged but through Windows Explorer nothing has been written to the CD. This is the same for and PDF written to a clean DVD. What step am I missing or is this a known bug in the software?
- The video tutorial suggests that you can burn to both CD and DVD in either format WMV or PDF but my software burns neither. Is this one and the same problem as above?
- Initially my saved slideshow was stored in a system generated Projects folder visible through in folder view. I must have pressed the wrong button but now I can see nether the slideshow nor PDF creation. How do I get this Projects folder to appear in the folder view again?
- PSE8 slideshow appears to randomly alter the caption points size when creating the slideshow. When editing is there a automated way to have the system uniformly alter all captions to a nominated point size?
Any help would be most appreciated.
Neil

- Everything works to the point of burning the slideshow. Physically you can track the system as it goes through each step in the process right down to poping the CD tray on completing the burn. The CD-RW used is new and undamaged but through Windows Explorer nothing has been written to the CD. This is the same for and PDF written to a clean DVD. What step am I missing or is this a known bug in the software?
You could try a CD-R (instead of a CD-RW): it may not be the cause of your problem but CDs are cheap.
There are 2 common causes of a problem at this stage. One is a software conflict with other installed software that does direct access to a CD or DVD disc, and this can usually be resolved by turning off that function in the Roxio or Sonic or other burning software that is installed. The other is an older software driver for the DVD drive. There was an Adobe technical document describing this situation and if you really need the info I will try to locate that doc on the revamped Adobe supprt site. But read on to my next paragraph first.
Is your objective to create a TV playable video? Because if yes, the resolution of what you can write to a CD from the PSE slide show editor is only 320x240 and for most people its quality is too poor to be useful. I gave up on it several versions ago. So you may want to investigate an entirely different approach.
- The video tutorial suggests that you can burn to both CD and DVD in either format WMV or PDF but my software burns neither. Is this one and the same problem as above?
No it would most probably not be the same problem especially if you are able to burn to CD or DVD discs using other software.
A PDF file or WMV are additional choices that exist when you make the Save as a File choice for the Slide Show Output. You first save the PDF file or the WMV file to your hard drive and then use your Burning software program (whatever you have installed or came preloaded on your PC including potentially the functionality within windows) to burn it to the disc.
- Initially my saved slideshow was stored in a system generated Projects folder visible through in folder view. I must have pressed the wrong button but now I can see nether the slideshow nor PDF creation. How do I get this Projects folder to appear in the folder view again?
I don't use Folder View very often. You could switch to Thumbnail view, most recent first and look in time sequence in the time range when you last saved that slide show project or that PDF
Before you look again, go to the View menu of the Organizer and under Media Types be sure that Projects and PDF are checked. (This setting of what types of media are shown can cause problems if you make a temporary change and then forget to set it back.).
- PSE8 slideshow appears to randomly alter the caption points size when creating the slideshow. When editing is there a automated way to have the system uniformly alter all captions to a nominated point size?
I have not expereinced this problem. Are these captions that you typed within the slide show editor OR are these captions that were entered for ap photo file and then shown in the slide show?
(I don't think there is a way to change ALL captions after they are entered in the slide show).

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