help burning vcd using nero express

Go slow - I'm new to this vcd stuff - any way here's what I'm trying to do. I'm trying to make a photo slide show that my parents can view on their tv set. (possibly with music in the background)

I have a pentium II-660 with a newly replaced cendyne 301240 internal IDE cd burner (which seems to be a verbatim 321240AL unit). This package came with Nero express - and I have updated it to ver 5.5.9.14.

When I attempt to use nero express to create a video CD I get the following failure messages:
Warning - medium is not empty.
Please insert an empty medium
Medium required for the compilation: CD-R/RW
Medium in recorder: ((empty)

I am using Philips 700mb/40x cd-r80's and tried burning at 32x and 8x with no luck.

Do I have to use special medium to make vcd?
Also any ideas how I can make the slide show with music in the background?

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Ken

 

1)what operating system do you have? 2)what kind of file are you trying to make into a vcd ?

 

Thanks for responding.
I am usng Windows-ME. Photos are jpg - from kodak dital camera.

In Nero - when making Video CD, does this only work for actual video & not still shots?

Is it worth buying a photo software package such as "Picture to CD & DVD"?

 

ddesign hum use windows movie maker you can put you music in the background and put your pictures together with the music to make you very own music video .....

 

I don't do hummers :0)>

I'm not sure how to use movie maker yet - I'll look at later tonight!

Thanks