HELP...Photos are Distorted and Text Unreadable!

tsimpson · Post by **tsimpson** » Mon Mar 13, 2006 4:42 pm

Hi! I have been doing mini videos for personal reasons for the past couple of years using this program and love it....however, I am now doing some for business purposes and the photos keep coming up distorted and the text is not readable. I did have this issue occasionally with my personal videos when I scanned the photos but just thought it was due to scanning. What is really confusing on the business videos is that these photos are not scanned but simply downloaded directly from my digital camera. I am saving them as .jpegs (although I did try in other formats) and dropping them in. Is there something that can be done so it doesn't look like I'm missing teeth all the time or people have oddly shaped heads? Thanks to anyone in advance who can provide some answers to this mystery...I really appreciate it as I need to have this video finalized by Friday, March 17th.
Tracy

heinz-oz · Post by **heinz-oz** » Mon Mar 13, 2006 8:50 pm

You are not telling us which program or version you are using. Neither do we know exactly what your problem is and how your images are distorted.

We could possibly help if you could try to help too.

sjj1805 · Post by **sjj1805** » Tue Mar 14, 2006 12:28 am

Please view the following links:
http://phpbb.ulead.com.tw/EN/viewtopic.php?t=27
and
http://phpbb.ulead.com.tw/EN/viewtopic.php?t=8959

Please update your system details on your user profile page.

tsimpson · Post by **tsimpson** » Tue Mar 14, 2006 5:47 am

Hi! Further to my original post, sorry for the omission of details. I am currently using VideoStudio 7 SE Basic and some of the photos that are inserted into the video are showing darker, grainy and give the appearance of being unfocused (edges are not smooth and defined plus black blotches appear as did in a photo of me leading one to believe that I had teeth missing!). Now that I am doing business videos, I would really like to have the text sharper and despite using scanned photos as well, I have been unable to adjust the clarity. I even tried saving as .GIF and .JPEG to see if format made a difference to no avail. Any writing is totally illegible and shows as black blotches. Hope this provides more clarity to my situation and I welcome any feedback that may alleviate my problems. Thanks for taking the time...

Tracy

sjj1805 · Post by **sjj1805** » Tue Mar 14, 2006 6:36 pm

I hae a digital camera and generaly drop those pictures into Video Studio in much the same format as they came out of the camera. There may be the odd bit of tidying up, cropping, removing minor picture defects etc and the pictures which are in JPG format come out crystal clear.

May I ask the resolution of your digital camera. Mine is 5 megapixel but I have found that pictures taken at 1 megapixel for DVD purposes are equally as good. The only advtantage of going higher than 1 megapixel is the ability to zoom further into the picture.

If you are not using any zoom effects then even 1 megapixel is higher than required for video as the TV screen resolution doesn't go that high anyway.

Next question is what are the dimensions of your pictures width-height.
Have you used the original dimensions taken by the camera or have you been reducing them with a photo editor. Again I keep the original size taken by the camera and let Video Studio do the resizing and I get crystal clear pictures.

When you reach the render stage and click the share tab, create video file you should see on the save dialog box "options." this includes an anti-flicker filter. make sure that this is selected.

Steve J

carebearuae · Post by **carebearuae** » Thu May 03, 2007 8:03 am

I am having the same problem with my pictures. When I import them they are fine but as soon as I put them in the timeline they are blurry and then I play the movie and it is blurry too. It almost seems like the photos are dropping resolution. The photos I am using are all high resolution. I am using ULEAD VIDEO STUDIO 11.

PLEASE HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Carebear

Post by **Ron P.** » Thu May 03, 2007 11:38 am

Carebear,

Please do not double post. This is being addressed in the VS forum..

http://phpbb.ulead.com.tw/EN/viewtopic. ... 251#114251

carebearuae · Post by **carebearuae** » Thu May 03, 2007 1:16 pm

When I made a post I found what I was looking for.......... wasn't sure which would be answered first as I needed to get an answer quick...........

heinz-oz · Post by **heinz-oz** » Thu May 03, 2007 11:56 pm

Adding high resolution photos to the time line can be counter productive since the TV resolution is much lower. I also believe that not all jpeg images are alike because some people use jpegs straight from the camera with no quality loss and others, like myself, notice a big quality drop doing that.

For DVD, your image is resized by the program to have exactly the pixel dimensions of you TV standard frame size. This is achieved by combining a number of pixels from the original into one pixel on the TV. The contents of that pixel are estimated by the program. By the pure nature of this process, image detail is going to be lost.

I resize my images (crop/scale) in PhotoImpact to the correct aspect ratio and a frame size to be not much above the TV frame size. For 4:3 aspect I usually use 1200 x 900 pixels and save to bmp rather than one of the compressed formats. Since doing that my pictures come out crisp and clear whereas before they didn't.

JamesRoyal · Post by **JamesRoyal** » Fri May 11, 2007 5:02 am

So what is the answer because I can't make it work for me either. I've tried everything and my pics still look like crap. I am using UVS 10

carebearuae wrote:When I made a post I found what I was looking for.......... wasn't sure which would be answered first as I needed to get an answer quick...........

Alludo USER to USER Web Board

HELP...Photos are Distorted and Text Unreadable!

HELP...Photos are Distorted and Text Unreadable!

Photos Distorted and Text Unreadable...Further Details

Pictures Blurry in timeline