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The Creation Process
Once you hit Create, ProShow will start rendering your show and burning
that content to the disc. There are three operations that take place:
Rendering is the first step. During rendering, ProShow streams single
images of your show together into a video. Video is broken into a series of
frames, and the number of frames you need in a video is determined by a
term called Frames Per Second (FPS). Different video formats have different
FPS ratings, but 29.97 is the most common is for video. This means that
there are nearly 30 images, or frames, flashed on the screen every second to
create the illusion of motion. If your show is 3 minutes long, you’re going to
have quite a few images to render:

3 minutes * 60 seconds = 180 seconds

180 seconds * 29.97 FPS = 5,395 frames

Rendering each of these images, one at a time, can take a while. The speed
of this is based on the performance of your computer and the complexity of
the show. If you’re creating a Blu-ray, the process can take even longer, as
HD video takes longer to prepare. Once you’ve started the rendering, just
let ProShow work. It can get the job done whether you’re watching or not.

Collecting takes place once the render is finished. All disc formats have a
set file structure that has to be used in order for the disc to work. The
collecting process is when ProShow takes the newly rendered video file and
converts it into the file structure needed for the disc. This often doesn’t take
long and is done silently between the rendering and burning process.

Burning is the final, and typically the most straightforward, process. When
the rendered and collected show data is ready to go, ProShow accesses
your disc burner and writes that data to the disc.
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If you have any trouble burning to disc, see Chapter 29.