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Originally Posted by aspen
Hi, I am new to this board. I am excited to be here. Photography is my passion!
I have a friend that turned me on to a great new free program, called Easy Made Memories. You can take your photos and videos and make a voice narrated show that ends up as a DVD that you can put in your TV. The program has lots of free frames and backgrounds and such. So far the program has been fun to play with and easy to use, but I haven’t seen the DVD’s that come out of it yet.
I’m excited to get a finished DVD, but before I order it, I was wondering if anyone else had experience using this program?
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Well there are many programs just like this on the market today. Almost every photo manipulation program comes with some sort of feature for burning a DVD of photos and playing them on your TV or computer. By the way, the DVD burning software that comes with most computers (Nero, and others) all have srapbook options built in to their systems.
Virtually all of these products let you just burn your own DVD on your own DVD burner. Since almost every computer that's been sold for the last several years has a DVD burner, its unlikely that people would need to send off to have one burnt. It appears the program you mention is just a spin on the old give them a free interface, but charge them for the output. I notice that in looking at their site, that it was very difficult to find where they mentioned the price of the DVD. I find that an ominous sign. I did finally find it, and its $21.95 for the basic DVD. On the same page, they also have a number of arguments why you shouldn't burn your own. I find most of these quite dated.
PS to Everyone: The manufacturer of the Easy Made Memories happens to be located in the little known town of Berthoud, CO. That should be a clue to anyone who does a little research.
Cheers,
rfs