# Create a video CD with a menu of slide shows

You can burn a video CD (VCD) of your slide shows to share with friends and family. To create a VCD, you must have a CD-RW drive or a DVD-RW drive and use only CD-R/RW discs. You can view a VCD on your television using a DVD player that supports the VCD format, or you can view it on your computer using a CD/DVD disc drive and software that can play VCD-format files.

Video CD files are encoded in MPEG-1 format with specific settings. Photoshop Elements creates VCDs from slide shows in two steps. First, it writes a WMV to the hard disk for every slideshow in a VCD project. Then it converts the WMV files to VCD, and burns them to the CD-R or CD-RW in a folder structure necessary for VCD playback.

1. Insert a writable CD in your CD-RW or DVD-RW drive.
2. In the Organizer, select one or more slide show projects or WMV files. To select multiple slide shows or WMV files, press Ctrl and click each slide show or WMV to include.
3. Click Create > More Options > VCD With Menu.

   The Create A VCD With Menu dialog box opens.

4. To organize your slide shows, do any of the following:

   - To add a slide show, click Add Slide Shows, select the slide shows to add, and click OK.

   - To move a slide show, drag it to a new location in the slide shows pane.

   - To remove a slide show, select it and click Remove Slide Show.

5. Choose either a NTSC or PAL setting under Video Options, depending on the location of the recipient of the VCD.
6. Click Burn.

   Photoshop Elements writes a WMV file for each slide show to the hard disk and places it in the Photo Browser. A dialog box will open asking you to insert a CD-R or CD-RW, if you haven’t already done so. Then, a Burn dialog box will open.

7. A destination drive and drive speed are selected by default, but you can modify either of these choices. Click OK to burn the VCD.

   A dialog box will open reporting when the VCD has been created successfully.

8. Click OK.

Related Information

- Publish a slide show

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