I recently upgraded from DPS3 to DPS4, for the custom panning. I was very disappointed to discover something. I stitch multiple images together to construct high resolution panoramic images. Viewed as a still image they are long and narrow and not worth viewing on the TV. If I could pan the image, it would be perfect. Enter DPS4 – however my panned panoramic images appear very unfocussed (other slides are razor sharp – only the panned panoramic images are unclear). It would appear that DPS4 downgrades the resolution to 720x480 prior to panning, so my image (3504x11680) effective becomes 324x216 within the pan window. Any one have similar experience?
Okay, working with this limitation….. I need to create a slide show with these panned images within the slideshow and have continous music. I can pan the images outside of DPS4 and save them as a video, but then in DPS4 the video and slide cannot be intermixed – they must be separate “chapters”. Any suggestion would be appreciated.
Regards
…Wes
Custom Panning large panoramic images, unfocussed results.
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edsargent
I have the same issue
A partial solution would be to resize your panorama's to fit within the limits of NTSC or PAL resolutions using another software such as PhotoShop or IrfanView this will maximize your image and minimize distortion. It will not be what you want but it will be better than letting DPS4 do the shrinking.
Have you found anything that will make a video of the panorama? A Google search "make video from jpg" yeilds several packages that claim to do the trick.
Have you found anything that will make a video of the panorama? A Google search "make video from jpg" yeilds several packages that claim to do the trick.
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wbader
Resizing my panorama outside of DPS4 does not resolve my issue. If I change the width to 720 and height to 480, then my image height is actually only 216 high. In the pan window if I shrink the box to match the height, then the weight become 324. Which is exactly what DPS does.
I have used VS8 to convert the panoramic image into a video, but then I need separate chapters for videos vs slideshows within DPS. I want to fit the panned images within the slideshow still images for continuity (including continous audio).
Regards
...Wes
I have used VS8 to convert the panoramic image into a video, but then I need separate chapters for videos vs slideshows within DPS. I want to fit the panned images within the slideshow still images for continuity (including continous audio).
Regards
...Wes
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edsargent
I think using VS 8 to make the video is what squished your frame. Just guessing because I don't have VS.
Last night I converted a panorama to a full sized (NTSC) DPS4 slide show. The image I used was 11,900 X 1900 shrunk using IrfanView (Freeware) to 5757 X 576, converted into a 20 sec avi by RostrumCamera (Freeware). Rostrum is geared to PAL so I could not shrink the image height below 576. I did not burn a DVD so I can't say what the end result on the TV was. I suspect there will be issues since the resultant video was PAL size rather than NTSC.
Regarding the separate chapters you are stuck with that restriction in DPS4. You could use VS8 to make the slide show with mixed stills and videos. Then export as a video and import that video into DPS4 to get the DVD menus for multiple resultant slide shows.
Last night I converted a panorama to a full sized (NTSC) DPS4 slide show. The image I used was 11,900 X 1900 shrunk using IrfanView (Freeware) to 5757 X 576, converted into a 20 sec avi by RostrumCamera (Freeware). Rostrum is geared to PAL so I could not shrink the image height below 576. I did not burn a DVD so I can't say what the end result on the TV was. I suspect there will be issues since the resultant video was PAL size rather than NTSC.
Regarding the separate chapters you are stuck with that restriction in DPS4. You could use VS8 to make the slide show with mixed stills and videos. Then export as a video and import that video into DPS4 to get the DVD menus for multiple resultant slide shows.
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wbader
Ed:
VS8 was not used to pan the images that appeared squished. That was done exclusively by DSP4. I have (on other occasions in the past) used VS8 to pan a still and save it as a movie. This has worked successfully. However, I am not able to integrate movies and stills in DPS4 so I can't have my cake and eat it too. I was hoping to resolve this with DPS4, which is why I upgraded (DPS3 didn't have custom zooming). Thanks.
Regards...Wes
VS8 was not used to pan the images that appeared squished. That was done exclusively by DSP4. I have (on other occasions in the past) used VS8 to pan a still and save it as a movie. This has worked successfully. However, I am not able to integrate movies and stills in DPS4 so I can't have my cake and eat it too. I was hoping to resolve this with DPS4, which is why I upgraded (DPS3 didn't have custom zooming). Thanks.
Regards...Wes