still on the subject of wmv's

It has occured to me that since I have had troubles in the past with quicktime and also that kodak easyshare does sometimes appear to be unreliable (shutting down regularly and not responding), I might actually be better off converting my MOV files to WMV's so they can be viewed regardless of what is going on with quicktime and easyshare.

It will make it easier for me to share with others too, without requiring them to download quicktime.

I have decided to, that due to the sheer volume of photos I take I am going to have to be more discriminating about what I keep.

At the moment my photo DVD's have about 999 photos each and that is for a period of one year ...

It is not uncommon for me to have 12 pictures on one subject each one a little different and me being reluctant to get rid of any.

I will have to add a culling stage to my photo sorting and be ruthless!

Photo sort

I have been intensely working to get my photos sorted. I have made backup copies of all of Kt's photos from birth to the present and I had a go at making a photo slideshow DVD using Windows DVD maker.

It allows you to have a title page with a play button and scene selection buttons just like a normal DVD and then it plays your photos as a slideshow and you have the option to choose your own background music or how the photos change from one to the next, how long each photo is shown for etc.

I have made 4 DVD's in all this past week approx 6 hours worth of stuff from the last 6 years worth of photos!

Last year I also made backup copies of all the video uni took of her while his video camera still worked.

I am going to create a photo box to store all our DVD's, photo CDs etc and put them with our photo albums so everything is all organized.

I will also put in CD's and DVD's that others have given us eg Wedding photos etc.

I am having a bit of trouble with backing up and keeping video taken by my digital camera. It is saved by Kodak software as a Quicktime movie and quicktime is not compatible with windows photo editing software.

I tried changing my MOV files to WMV files which are compatible with windows but the quality of the resulting video was unwatchable.

I will attempt to make a Cd or DVD of my MOV files using Kodak Easyshare software and if this does not work I will have to try some other avenue ... perhaps AVI files.

It would be lovely to be able to have my photos and videos on one CD or DVD, but I will have to see if that is achievable with Easyshare or not