Dazzle OnDVD Software

by Dazzle Multimedia

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces
• ASIN: B000068D9G
• Item model number: DM11000
• Date first available at Amazon.com: May 10, 2002
• Average Customer Review: 1.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #14,667 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
  • #70 in Software > Graphics > Image Capture

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

With OnDVD you can take digital pictures and turn them into photo albums on CDs that play in your DVD player. Simply select and arrange your photos like an old-fashioned slide show and burn them to a CD.

With OnDVD, you can arrange up to 200 digital pictures in simple storyboard format, then add an audio track. Should some of your photos require cropping, rotation, or even red-eye removal, you can use Dazzle Photo Editor to perfect them. Advanced algorithms tackle tough but common problems such as bad lighting and color imbalance. When you're done, preview the slide show in OnDVD to see how it will look and sound on your TV.

OnDVD's state-of-the-art burning engine works with your CD-R or CD-RW burner to create Video CDs (VCDs) that play on DVD players. And just like saving the original negatives of your photographic prints, OnDVD keeps a copy of each original, high-quality digital photograph on the CD itself. Favorite photos can easily be turned into photographic prints ready to be framed.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Bare bones, patience needed, August 14, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Dazzle OnDVD Software (CD-ROM)

My wife got this for me last Christmas. I was expecting more and got less. I did get it to work and I did create a VCD format CDR but I would recommend a more powerful program. Some of the drawbacks I found
1) Music can only be MP3 (I had to find a program to convert my WMA's and other formats to MP3)
2) Limit of 200 pictures is actually 100 unless you do some crazy workaround, I don't remember how I FINALLY got it up to 200 (which isn't nearly enough for me to do a year's worth of picrues)
3) The preview mode is cheesy. In order to view the pictures and music together you have to play from the beginning every time, you can not preview from 1/2 way though the presentation.
4) No way to sort and store photos
5) Not everyone's DVD supports the VCD format that this program burns to.
My advice: Get a DVD burner and software to burn DVD format, don't mess with the VCD or SVCD.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Awful service and support destroys promise of product, December 2, 2002

By 

Stephen M. Terrell (Indianapolis, IN USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Dazzle OnDVD Software (CD-ROM)

I received the WRONG CD in the box -- apparantly an earlier edition that did not allow for drop and drag editing or adding of audio, as specified in advertising and on the box. The manual included did not match the screens and options which appeared when I loaded my software.

You would think this problem would be rather simple to solve. But it's not. Simply cannot contact Dazzle about it! Called their non-toll free help line, and was on hold for an hour before I gave up. Dazzle did not respond to my e-mail. Too bad they don't care more about their customers. Product has promise, but when you can't even get an answer to a simple question, that promise remains unfulfilled.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Fun program bad tech support., October 2, 2002

By 

Dan Noble - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Dazzle OnDVD Software (CD-ROM)

I had read an article on DVD slide shows in Popular Photography and
thought it would be fun to try. I had picked OnDVD because of the price, if I didn't like it it wouldn't be a loss. The program was easy to use and fun, untill I tried to burn the cd.
I had problems burning it on a cd, I tried to call the tech support, which is not toll free and stayed on hold for 20 minutes then gave up. I faxed Dazzle and had no responce. They have a chat forum which others had the same problems I did. I will probably go with something like "DVD PICTURE SHOW" next time which seems to have a good reviews. I guess I got what I paid for.