Slideshow image quality degrades

[DSFletcher]

I am using VS 10 to produce slideshows of TIFF images. The images are very high quality. After the slideshow is rendered and burned to the DVD, the images lose a lot of the sharpness of the original image. I intend to use these DVD's for promotion of my photography business. But the final quality does not give a good representation of my work.

Has anyone else had this issue or know how to possibly solve it?

Thanks
Dave
www.fletcherimages.com

[heinz-oz]

The problem is that your TV cannot display your images in the given resolution or size. The frame size is limited by your TV standard.

In order to display your images on the TV, they are reduced in size and resolution by the video editing software with the results you describe.

I found it much better to reduce my images to the TV standard frame size in an image editing program and save these to bmp. The resulting display on the TV is infinitely better.

[sjj1805]

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[neillondon]

I do not think this is a res issue at all. I have a similar problem and I am outputing to computer screen.

See my post

http://phpbb.ulead.com.tw/EN/viewtopic.php?t=14696

The images used are losing focus and resolution as they are being resized by VS, the screen is resized upwards and then back to the correct resolution during publish, this is cousing some pixelation and hence loss of quality.

I need help on this too...

[heinz-oz]

I do not think this is a res issue at all. I have a similar problem and I am outputing to computer screen.

See my post

http://phpbb.ulead.com.tw/EN/viewtopic.php?t=14696

The images used are losing focus and resolution as they are being resized by VS, the screen is resized upwards and then back to the correct resolution during publish, this is cousing some pixelation and hence loss of quality.

I need help on this too...

I don't think that you can compare your problems with the OP. He is using high res TIFF images, you are using jpegs, some from power point etc. Different kettle of fish altogether.

I’ll have a look at your problem in detail when I have some more time. Hopefully someone else will come along in between to help.

[DSFletcher]

Thanks guys,

I appreciate your suggestions. I also use Sony's Screenblast to edit video. I bought VS 10 because it had templates that made the slideshow production process go faster. Anyway, I have similiar issues with Screenblast. I did not mention earlier that after the slideshow is rendred, the color saturation is significantly increased as well as the image sharpness degraded.
I have gone into the color correction option and backed off the saturation to try to compensate but the program seems to have a mind of it's own.

Thanks for any other ideas.
Dave
www.fletcherimages.com

[Ken Berry]

This is probably not what you want to hear, but if you bought VS specifically to produce slideshows, my personal opinion is that I think you made a mistake. Certainly VS9 and 10 in particular do a much better job in producing slideshows than previous versions.

But if slideshows are your main production objective, I would have bought Ulead's authoring/program production Movie Factory 5 (or for that matter 4 or 3 which was the first version I started using). Movie Factory has a specific module for handling slideshows, and it seems to do so with great ease and no hassles. And into the bargain, when you get to the burning to disc stage, you also have more flexibility and sophistication when it comes to preparing menus than currently exists in Video Studio.

[DSFletcher]

Thanks Ken for the insight.

I'll look into Movie Factory and see if that does what I want it to do for me.

Dave
www.fletcherimages.com

[Tales 68]

Hi I was going to post a new thread but I can sense similarities - I'm trying to do just a slideshow using a few jpeg stills with VS7 (vs10 still in box) I've had no probs with inserting jpegs into projects b4 but this file will be just stills and the quality after re-sizing looks ok but shows degradation when watching back on the laptop. The stills were taken on a 7megapixel camera. Any ideas as I said b4 when i've inserted the same pics into other projects they've been fine.

[maddrummer3301]

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[Tales 68]

Thanks for your reply - much appreciated.