Burning photos onto disc with roxio?

[Monsieur]

I've got over 4gb of photos that I want to copy to a disc. I use a Dell inspiron 6400 which comes with roxio software. When I get to the stage where I'm asked to select a file for burning I can't seem to select more than one file at a time - surely there is an easier way than selecting just one photo at a time? How do I select multiple files to burn onto a disc?

Thanks

 

[Blackal]

Are you selecting the wrong kind of disc to burn?

I usually just select "burn a data disc" (rather than photor or music disc), then just block-select all the files (pics) and drag them on to the "burn-area".

I've not got Roxio on this machine - but I've never had any problem on the other one?

Al

 

[Jezza]

Have you tried clicking the first file then hold the shift key and click the last file it should select all files.

Or select a single file then hold Ctrl+A for select all.

 

[andyclift]

Open the folder with the pictures in. Click Edit>Select All, then move mouse over any picture, click and drag into Roxio window.

If there are a few files in the folder that you don't want, selct the first, then holding the CTRL key select the others, then click Edit>Select Inverse and drag across as above.

 

[Dickieboy]

Download Picasa from Google if you don't already have it, and then select 'Make Gift CD' there is nothing easier or simpler

 

[Monsieur]

Thanks

Managed to select the files I need but now the drag-to-disc thingy says there is no disc in the drive even when there is. The drive works fine as just tested a DVD in it and it plays ok

 

[Monsieur]

Just a thought....

I was planning on using 4.7gb dvd-r discs, 4x compatible.
Is this the right sort of disc for burning photos onto and how do I find out what sort of drive I have on my laptop?

 

[andyclift]

Download Picasa from Google if you don't already have it, and then select 'Make Gift CD' there is nothing easier or simpler

Picassa is great for a "last resort" back up and circulating large collections BUT quality is reduced when you upload (my 3008 wide pics become 1600 when uploaded as the largest file size Picassa accepts). Also I can't see this as a good solution for making a CD (or in this case a 4 Gbyte DVD. (1) Subscribe to Google (2) Download Picassa (3) Upload 4 Gbyte of photos with a quality reduction (4) Make a CD/DVD which you can do quicker by just dragging and dropping and pressing the BURN button in Roxio.

Managed to select the files I need but now the drag-to-disc thingy says there is no disc in the drive even when there is. The drive works fine as just tested a DVD in it and it plays ok

I assume you are dragging from the desktop window to the Roxio window (direct dragging to the CD/DVD window won't work with Roxio installed. If you are then it sounds like Roxio is not recognising the drive. Can you burn other stuff or is it just the pics that give the problem. If the drive is not recognised by Roxio at all, I have had this problem and changed to Nero but a solution I found is to go to Device Manager, find the DVD drive and click uninstall. Now reboot the computer and Windows (and Roxio) SHOULD find the drive again. If it doesn't maybe reinstalling (or repairing Roxio) would work - or change to Nero.

I was planning on using 4.7gb dvd-r discs, 4x compatible.
Is this the right sort of disc for burning photos onto and how do I find out what sort of drive I have on my laptop?

Should not be a problem but, if you plan to view the pictures on a JPEG compatible DVD player remember to turn all your "portrait" pics 90 degrees first and select niot to make a multisession disc and close the disc.

Go to Device Manager and select the DVD drive to find out the drive type

 

[Dickieboy]

Picassa is great for a "last resort" back up and circulating large collections BUT quality is reduced when you upload (my 3008 wide pics become 1600 when uploaded as the largest file size Picassa accepts). Also I can't see this as a good solution for making a CD (or in this case a 4 Gbyte DVD. (1) Subscribe to Google (2) Download Picassa (3) Upload 4 Gbyte of photos with a quality reduction (4) Make a CD/DVD which you can do quicker by just dragging and dropping and pressing the BURN button in Roxio.

Andy Picasa completely free with no strings attached from Google here

http://picasa.google.com/download/thanks.html

No subscription to anyone needed, and I disagree it's a last resort program. For the every day bloke who just wants to catalogue his photos and who's not into photoshop or publishing etc it's one of the best little photo programs available, simplicity itself, I've burnt dozens of photo cd's using it and never had a problem with the quality.

As for the uploading aspect just upload to your site of choice from wherever the photo happens to be

 

[andyclift]

Dickieboy

I don't recall suggesting that Picassa is anything but free but I can't see why anyone would want it for burning DVDs when most people would have Roxio or Nero which does the job easier without having to download more software.

This thread was from a guy having trouble multi-selecting and loading more software does not make it easier. I have just done a check. To burn a folder of pictures onto DVD means opening Nero/Roxio, selecting the DVD type, open the picture folder, select pics and drag across, press BURN button. Nine mouse clicks and total time 20 seconds and a complete no - brainer and it's no quicker in Picassa.

Picassa is no better than much of the free software provided with digital cameras, indeed the Olympus and Nikon software I have is superior. The ONE advantage Picassa has is the easy use of Google's on-line storage and this is a great facility BUT I will repeat the warning on my earlier post, it's great for posting pictures on the web (I use it with links on my own site rather than use my server capacity for pictures) but as a storage medium it should be considered a last resort.

I guess most people today have 6 Megapixel + cameras and have invested in large SD/XD etc. storage cards to make use of the high quality. Uploading a 6 Megapixel image onto Google reduces it to 1.7 Megapixels, about what you could get on a camera ten years ago.

When granny wants a nice 10 X 8 of that great picture of the kids at Christmas you are stuffed if the only file you have is on Google!!

 

[Steve]

I guess most people today have 6 Megapixel + cameras and have invested in large SD/XD etc. storage cards to make use of the high quality. Uploading a 6 Megapixel image onto Google reduces it to 1.7 Megapixels, about what you could get on a camera ten years ago.

When granny wants a nice 10 X 8 of that great picture of the kids at Christmas you are stuffed if the only file you have is on Google!!

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