I am fairly new to VideoStudio 10 and wanted to see if any one can help me with some technical questions I have. I mainly use VS10 for picture slideshows and am looking for ways to improve the quality of presentation. All my slideshows are 30 minutes or less. They mostely include pictures, video Backgrounds that came with the program, and sometimes includes AVI video clips. I am working on a project right now and would like some recommendation on the project settings.
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Ulead VideoStudio Tab-Should I have the Perform non-square pixel rendering selected?
General Tab-What frame type should I have. Any other recommended settings
Compression Tab - What should the data rate be set at variable or constant and what should the kbps be set at?
Audio format MPEG, LPCM or Dolby Digital
Media type
Also, my friend supplied me with several clips that she had converted over some old VHS to video and under the Compression tab I can select advanced down on the bottom left side.
Any Recommendations
Target Playback-Custom or Hard disk 800kbps
Check data rate in un-checked and 3699 is in the grey box
Recompress unchecked
Interleave unchecked
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Non-Square Pixel Rendering is a setting primarily used for video to be viewed on television. PC's use square pixels.
The "Frame type" depends mainly on your source. For example if you captured/transferred DV it would be LFF (lower field first). Analog video most of the time is UFF (upper field first). Frame Based is primarily used for slideshows or video that is going to be viewed using a PC, ie; via the internet or just on your PC.
Since your projects are only around 30 mins, you can use the highest bitrate, and not worry about disc space (if DVDs are your final goal). Most recommend using VBR only when choosing 2-Pass encoding. I tend to stick with CBR (constant bit rate) unless I want to place a bit more then 1 hr on a DVD, and using a bitrate of 6000 or 6500.
Again if you are creating DVDs then you should use either LPCM, which is uncompressed audio much like the image format Bitmap. It takes up a lot of space, but gives excellent quality, or Dolby. MPEG audio does not fall into the NTSC specs for DVDs.
Can't help with the rest, as I tend to ignore them....
The "Frame type" depends mainly on your source. For example if you captured/transferred DV it would be LFF (lower field first). Analog video most of the time is UFF (upper field first). Frame Based is primarily used for slideshows or video that is going to be viewed using a PC, ie; via the internet or just on your PC.
Since your projects are only around 30 mins, you can use the highest bitrate, and not worry about disc space (if DVDs are your final goal). Most recommend using VBR only when choosing 2-Pass encoding. I tend to stick with CBR (constant bit rate) unless I want to place a bit more then 1 hr on a DVD, and using a bitrate of 6000 or 6500.
Again if you are creating DVDs then you should use either LPCM, which is uncompressed audio much like the image format Bitmap. It takes up a lot of space, but gives excellent quality, or Dolby. MPEG audio does not fall into the NTSC specs for DVDs.
Can't help with the rest, as I tend to ignore them....
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The quality of your slideshow depends upon the bit rates used.
The bit rates used depend upon how long your completed project lasts for and the size of the DVD disc being used.
1 hour on a standard 4.3 GB DVD disc - you can use best quality
for a 3 hour show on that same disc you have to lower the quality so that the file size is smaller to enable it to fit onto the disc.
Click Here for suggested bit rate settings
The bit rates used depend upon how long your completed project lasts for and the size of the DVD disc being used.
1 hour on a standard 4.3 GB DVD disc - you can use best quality
for a 3 hour show on that same disc you have to lower the quality so that the file size is smaller to enable it to fit onto the disc.
Click Here for suggested bit rate settings