Poor quality images

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Tom

Poor quality images

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When inserting an image into the time line the quality is very poor. No matter what the size of the jpeg file the quality always remains poor. I have tried deinterlacing but nothing changes.

Any suggestions.

tom
thecoalman

Post by thecoalman »

What type of image, from a scanned photo or still camera?
Tom

Post by Tom »

All images are from digital cameras. The size varies from 2- 3 mega pixels. Also, all are jpeg. Tried converting to BMP but no change.
thecoalman

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Try blurring them slightly in a image editor before importing them. Once on the timeline right click on the image select media source options. Select frame based for the frame type and apply the flicker reduction.

Unless your panning and zooming you can also try resizing them in the image editor to whatever the resolution of your project is.
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Re: Poor quality images

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Tom wrote:When inserting an image into the time line the quality is very poor. No matter what the size of the jpeg file the quality always remains poor. I have tried deinterlacing but nothing changes.

Any suggestions.

tom
What version of MSP are you using? And is it updated with the latest patches?

What type of output are you doing? And can you describe what's wrong with the pictures? Maybe even post an example of the picture in its final form after you create your video?
George
Tom

Post by Tom »

Thanks George for the input.

The image discription is identical to a VERY low resolution picture with jagged edges around the subject. Deinterlacing helps somewhat but not near the quality of the original image.

I am using MSP-7 upgraded from MSP-6.5. All patches have been implemented.

Typically I render in MPEG-2 then burn to a DVD.

This image problem has been around a long time. I will be contacting Ulead via phone to see if this is just-the-way-it-is.

Tom
videomartin

Post by videomartin »

Tom,

you may try to resize your picture to the needed vido size with your favorized image editor and afterwards open the image with video paint.

Enter the needed informations for time and number of frames and save that as an *.uvp file.

Put that *.uvp file as a video file to your time line instead the *.jpg still
Afterwards you may adjust the settings for that file as image and flickerfree with the media setitings options, too.- if needed.

Give it a try. Its a little more complicate handling, but for many users in europe (we have another format with our PAL 720x576) that brings the best picture quality here.
Tom

Post by Tom »

Thanks for the input. I will give it a try.

Tom
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