Image quality

Lyn · Post by **Lyn** » Sun Mar 26, 2006 7:39 pm

I am new with videostudio and have a problem.
My images are sharp, but when I use them in videostudio they become unsharp.

For being sure that they are good I have put them in movie maker and they are sharp there. I use videostudio 7. What can be the problem?

Thanks

heinz-oz · Post by **heinz-oz** » Sun Mar 26, 2006 9:21 pm

Are you talking about the preview of these images or the rendered ones on the DVD?

Lyn · Post by **Lyn** » Mon Mar 27, 2006 5:32 am

In review they look very poor and so I did't go on and just put in a few images and like the tutorials say in preferences put in them in high quality and made a .wmv file and it came out very, very poor.

Before using video I am used to working with programs like Photoshop and movie maker and photo story 3 and never had such a bad lost of quality. I did not even change my images, no Photoshop or change of size.

I never made a DVD out of my slideshows or movie, does this make a difference?

heinz-oz · Post by **heinz-oz** » Mon Mar 27, 2006 8:54 am

I never used the wmv compression and don't know if that makes a difference, wouldn't surprise me though.

I often use photos in my video projects. I crop these first to the right aspect ratio (4:3) and then resize them to 1200 x 900 px bmp before I put them on the time line in MSP. They come out as crisp as anything.

What is the image size before you create the video? Project settings?

Lyn · Post by **Lyn** » Mon Mar 27, 2006 4:48 pm

hi Heinz,

Well I have made a DVD and It looks realy good on tv 34 inch

And these are my old pictures from my HP 4 mil pix, now I have a better camera

What I did was setting the images on 'fit to project size' and that was a BIG change. But I will make my images smaller, they are now about 2200x 1700 so toooo big and jpg. So thanks for that advise. But one more small question from you

what do you mean by "crop them before to ratio 4:3?

As you see I am very new in this *sorry*

heinz-oz · Post by **heinz-oz** » Mon Mar 27, 2006 9:12 pm

Images from still cameras are rarely in an aspect ratio to suit your TV (4:3 or the newer ones 16:9). If you divide the horizontal side of your image by the vertical side and get a result of 1.3333333, your image is 4:3.

Your images are 2200 x 1700 (1.29) which means that your image will not fill the screen completely. Because of the over scan of every TV, you may not notice this. A 4:3 image, taken in portrait mode will be 3:4 aspect ratio and hence display on the screen with coloured bars on either side to make up the missing image information.

I used the ratio of 4:3 because my TV is this ratio. I have stopped taken photos in portrait mode because these display rather small on my TV with the sides filled by bars.

Which image editor do you use? I use PI and this gives me the option of cropping to a ratio of 4:3. I will only use image information I need and crop the rest. Because my aspect ratio is locked in at 4:3, my horizontal image length is always going to be 1.3333 times the vertical length and hence display full screen.

I hope I was able to describe this to you in a comprehendible way.