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mac-man6
Junior Member
Canada
217 Posts |
 Posted - 03 Aug 2003 : 22:04:18
I have a PowerCD, bunch of photos and a CD burner. Can I burn the photos to a photocd and play it on the PowerCD?. I can I do this with Toast?, what do I need to get this done?. Also some photo developers say that they can put your photos on a cd, would this be in the photocd format?Editor of the printed word, Ministry of 68k Truths (mini6)
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maclover5
LC Doctor/Hot Rodder
Australia
5830 Posts |
Posted - 12 Sep 2003 : 23:37:12
Y'know, i've been wondering the same thing...Do you have the video cable thing to run your PowerCD on the TV?  "**** em" - Jobs in regards to customers
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tmtomh
Junior Member
USA
172 Posts |
Posted - 13 Sep 2003 : 06:12:14
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I have a PowerCD, bunch of photos and a CD burner. Can I burn the photos to a photocd and play it on the PowerCD?
You certainly can burn the photos to a PhotoCD (it might actually be called a PictureCD IIRC). The uncertain part is whether the PowerCD will be able to read the burned CD. The PowerCD, with its early '90s 1X mechanism, is an early CD drive, and many early CD drives' lasers cannot properly read CD-Rs. The only way to know for sure is to put a CD-R in the PowerCD and see if it can read it. (The CD-R should be from the same batch you intend to use, but it doesn't have to be formatted as a PhotoCD; any Mac-readable format and data can be used for testing purposes.) quote:
I can I do this with Toast? what do I need to get this done?
I think some versions of Toast can do this, but I'm not sure. (But again, the CD-R might not be readable by the PowerCD.) You'd have to find the right version. I'm guessing 3.5.x could do it, and perhaps 4.x. The issue here is that the PhotoCD/PictureCD format isn't really used anymore, so for example Toast Titanium 5 doesn't have an option for it (as far as I can tell). I would do a Google search -- it's sure to turn up the answer you need in this respect. quote:
Also some photo developers say that they can put your photos on a cd, would this be in the photocd format?
Doubtful. As I wrote above, the PictureCD/PhotoCD format is no longer used much. I've read on more than one Web page that "pictures on CD" services currently offered by photofinishers are not the same as the old PictureCD format. I think what you wind up getting is an ISO 9660-formatted CD with a bunch of JPEGs on it. (ISO 9660 is DOS/Windows format, which any Mac running System 7 or later, with the PC Exchange control panel installed, can read.) On the other hand, PictureCD was a Kodak-branded product, so it's possible that photo shops advertising themselves as Kodak-authorized or Kodak specialists might still offer the format. I would recommend that you call and ask, but I would try to call a specialist or actual camera store. If you call a chain store location, you could very well get a clerk on the phone who's not knowledgeable enough (or interested enough) to distinguish between a "photo CD" and a specific PhotoCD/PictureCD formatted CD. At any rate, it would be cool if you would report back on whether or not the PowerCD can read CD-Rs. And good luck! Matt No rank Permanent 68k roommates:
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- "Mystic" Color Classic, full '040, 36/700/enet, OS 8.1 Edited by - tmtomh on 13 Sep 2003 06:15:13 |
maclover5
LC Doctor/Hot Rodder
Australia
5830 Posts |
Posted - 13 Sep 2003 : 06:22:50
I use CD-Rs in my PowerCD quite a lot, for data and audio, and so far i've had no problems at all with CD-Rs."**** em" - Jobs in regards to customers
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