(CD-ROM Setup) BURNING CDROMS OF IMAGES WITH BUILT IN BURNER

Click here to show the CD-ROM Burning Wizard screen.

Let's say you want to create a CD with a whole bunch of photos. These are the methods you can use to create the CDROM:

Manual: Create CD-ROM with 3rd party burning software

Automatic: Create CD-ROM with built in CD-ROM burning feature of Photo Jockey

NOTE: Users ARE PERMITTED to burn Photo Jockey onto CDs that are given away. The reason is because, when Photo Jockey is run from a non registered machine, Photo Jockey is in non registered mode. So giving away Photo Jockey benefits both parties. Giving away your registration key is NOT PERMITTED.




AUTOMATIC METHOD:

From the main menu, click on the "File" menu. Then click on the "Burn CD-ROM" menu item. Or you can click on the CD BURN button found on the Quick Tools panel. Both of these bring up the CDROM Burning Wizard. The Wizard has several screens of options.

WIZARD SCREENS:

SCREEN 1: (Welcome Screen)
This is the introduction screen and is displayed for informative purposes.

SCREEN 2: (What Files To Burn)
This screen allows you to select what files to burn. You can choose either:

Current Folder: (Only Viewable Files): This allows you to burn the images located in the folder that is currently being viewed by Photo Jockey In another wizard screen you can select if you want sub-folders included as well.

NOTE: Only viewable files (images & movies) will be burned. Any other files in the folder will be skipped from the burn.

Any Folder: (Only Viewable Files): This allows you to select any folder to burn the images from. In another wizard screen you can select if you want sub-folders included as well.

NOTE: Only viewable files (images & movies) will be burned. Any other files in the folder will be skipped from the burn.
NOTE: You will not be able to select "Tagged Files" from the "Choose Files" wizard screen.

Any Folder: (All Files): This allows you to select any folder to burn the images from. In another wizard screen you can select if you want sub-folders included as well.

NOTE: ALL FILES are included in the burn. This is the best choice if you want to make sure ALL files are backed up. So, if you delete the source folder later, you can recover all the files from your burned CD.
NOTE: You will not be able to select "Tagged Files" from the "Choose Files" wizard screen.

Web Gallery previously created: This allows you to burn a Web Gallery that you have created using the Auto Web Page Gallery creation tool.

You can click the "Auto Web Page Gallery Creation" button to create a new gallery or update an existing gallery. You can click on the "Show Web Gallery Folders" to bring up an Explorer window to show you all the galleries that you have created so far.

SCREEN 3: (Choose Files)
This screen allows you to select which files you want to burn. You can choose "All Files" or "Tagged Files". If you choose all files, then all files that are viewable by Photo Jockey from the currently viewed folder will be burned. If you choose tagged files, then only the checkmarked files (tagged) that are viewable from the current folder will be burned. Of course in a later screen, you can choose to add selected sub-folders too.

NOTE: Since only VIEWABLE files are selected to burn, this means that only files that Photo Jockey can view will be burned.  This means *.doc, *.xls, *.html, *.pdf, *.bat, *.com, *.dat etc... will NOT get burned.

SCREEN 4: (Include Photo Jockey)
This screen allows you to select if you want to include Photo Jockey on the CDROM.

Include Photo Jockey: It's nice to select this feature if you want the user of the CD ROM to have Photo Jockey automatically pop-up and start a slide show of the images on the CD.

Auto Start Slide Show: Check this option if you want Photo Jockey to automatically start showing the images on the CD in slide show mode with transitions. If you leave it unchecked, then the burned CD will load Photo Jockey and show the first image. The user will have to manually select images to view or manually start the slide show.

Include Background Music: Check this option if you have created some background music and want to make sure that this music is burned onto the CD as well. Then when the slide show is played, the background music will be played. Click here to learn more about Background Music files.

Slide Show Delay Time: This is pulldown option that allows you to select the amount of time to wait before showing the next image. You can select from 1 up to 60 seconds.

SCREEN 5: (Include Comments)
This screen allows you to select if you want to include any comment files (Text/Voice) along with your images. If you had created some comments for your images, you might consider using this option. Click here to learn about comment file extensions. Click here to learn how to create text comments. Click here to learn how to create voice comments.


SCREEN 6: (Include Sub-Folders)
This screen allows you to select any sub-folders that you may want to include in the burn. You can choose any or all sub-folders. You are also shown how much disk space each sub-folder requires. It also shows you how much of a 700MB CD-ROM or 4.7GB DVD is needed to complete the burn.

SCREEN 7: (Excluded Files)
If you selected "Current Folder: (Only Viewable Files)" from the "What Files To Burn" wizard screen, then this wizard screen may appear. This screen shows you any files that are excluded from burning, but came from folders that you had selected to burn. This is because when you select "Current Folder: (Only Viewable Files)" from the "What Files To Burn" wizard screen,  then only viewable files are burned. So spreadsheets and word documents and database files etc... will NOT be burned. See note about files being excluded.

SCREEN 8: (Volume Name)
This screen allows you to select a Volume label of your choice. You can enter up to 11 characters for the volume label. This volume label is displayed by most explorer file managers next to the CD's drive letter.

SCREEN 9: (Ready To Burn)
This screen indicates that you are ready to burn. It's just for informative purposes. Click "Next" to continue to the Burn Window to do your actual burn..

BURN WINDOW:
In the BURN window, you can ERASE a disk so that you can start from a blank. The burning screen shows you a list of files on your hard drive that are going to be burned. It also shows a list of where these files will go onto the CD. It also allows you to burn multiple copies. You can also verify the CD after the burn is complete. Click here for details about the final burn window.



GENERAL NOTES:

What's Auto Included?

Depending on the options you choose, the burning wizard automatically includes additional files to the list of image files to be burned. For example: If you selected to include comment files, the appropriate *.TXT and *.WAV files are burned as well.

If you selected WEB GALLERY instead of folder of images, all the appropriate images and sub-folders and HTMLs and thumbnails are burned onto the CD. Also the disk will AUTO-LAUNCH your web browser when you insert the disk into a Windows based machine.

What's Auto Excluded?

When you select "Current Folder: (Only Viewable Files)" or "Web Gallery previously created" from the "What Files To Burn" wizard screen, then there can be times where not all files in the folder are burned to the CD. This is because ONLY VIEWABLE files are burned onto the CD. So, other files like *.PDF, *.INF, *.BAT, , *.DAT, spreadsheet files, word document files, database files etc.. will not be burned. Also, when you  burn web galleries, only files viewable by web browsers are burned (*.png, *.jpg, *.gif, *.bmp, *.html). Other formats likes *.tif, *.pcx, *.crw, *.psd will NOT be burned to the CD. Click here to see all graphic formats supported.

Burn Multiple Copies?
You can select to burn up to 10 copies of your selection. This is nice when you want more than one copy and don't want to have to reselect all the options for each burn process. After each disk completes, it ejects and asks for you to insert a blank disk.

Erase Disks?
If you have a CD-RW media in the burner drive, you can click the "ERASE" button and it will do a "quick" erase. This means that it will appear blank so you can store a lot of data on it again. Beware that a "quick" erase does NOT erase the entire CD-ROM, it just erases the needed portions to make it look blank. This means that if you had secret data on a disk and you click to erase it, it IS POSSIBLE that someone with the proper tools could get your secret data from the CDROM. If you are paronoid, use another CD-ROM burning utility to do a FULL erase. A full erase can take 10 minutes to perform, while a quick erase is only about 15 seconds.

How can I add more folders to an existing burned disk?
If you have a CD that was burned without finalizing, you can go through the burn process again to add more folders. Most burning software by default DO NOT FINALIZE the disk. If the CD was finalized, then you are out of luck and no more data can be written to the disk. The ablility to add additional folders to an already burned disk is a great advantage since there may be times where you can't select all the folders you want to burn while using the CD Burning Wizard's "Include Sub-Folders" page.


TECHNICAL NOTES:

This feature burns the CD and closes the disk. It does NOT FINALIZE the disk. This provides an advantage that you can go through the burn process AGAIN to add more folders to your CD (provided there is available space left). The DISadvantage is that real old CD/DVD players may not be able to read a non-finalized disk. With all the new players out in the last few years flooding the market, this issue should NOT be a problem for most people.


TROUBLE SHOOTING:

This feature REQUIRES you to be running Windows XP, Windows 2003 or later. It will not work with Windows 95/98.



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