I am somewhat new to ulead MSP so I'm looking for some help. I have read through a lot of the posts on the forum and tried to follow some of the advise but to with no luck
I am doing a video of my daughters soccer team using both still digital images and video. The still JPEG images were taken with an Olympus EVolt, they are quite large. I have resized the photo's ,using Photoshop CS, to 720 X 480 with 300 resolution. Images are sharp and clear however they don't come close to that when I preview them on the timeline or create an AVI / MPG2 video file. Video is meant to be played on TV screens. I've actually made a DVD and played it on my TV hoping for some good results but it looks as crappy on the TV as it does on the computer monitor. Don't know if this has any affect but I have gone into each photo on the timeline and selected "Media Source Options" and set "Frame Type" as lower field and selected the de-interlace option. Still looks terrible.
Here are my project settings
NTSC drop frame (29.97 fps)
Video tracks: 7
Microsoft AVI files
24 bits, 720 x 480, 4:3, 29.97 fps
Lower Field First
DV Video Encoder -- type 1
DV Audio -- NTSC, 48.000 kHz, 16 Bit, Stereo
I know I must be doing something wrong (trust me I have tried everything I can think of) but can't belive that nice crisp, sharp photos look this poorly/jagged when added to the timeline and then rendered.
WHAT AM I DOING WRONG. HELP!
Poor image quality
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heinz-oz
Digital images are square pixels, video is rectangular, there is one reason.
I'm afraid your 300 ppi/dpi setting for the resolution means nothing to the image on the screen.
Adding a compressed format (jpeg) to the time line and compressing it again to mpeg2 doesnt do it much good either.
Digital images will never quite look the same on the TV than what they do in print or on the PC, it's a fact of life.
Having said all that, I have used digital images to create slide shows and also in my video projects. They don't look all that bad really. What worked for me was to reduce the images in size (crop and/or resize) in PhotoImpact, PS should work just the same but I don't use it, to an aspect ratio of 4:3 and a size of 1200 x 900 pixels. These where then saved to bmp format in PI, not jpeg, and put on the time line in MSP 7.3. On the PC, these looked anything as good in the video as they did in PI. On the TV not as good but reasonably crisp and sharp.
I'm afraid your 300 ppi/dpi setting for the resolution means nothing to the image on the screen.
Adding a compressed format (jpeg) to the time line and compressing it again to mpeg2 doesnt do it much good either.
Digital images will never quite look the same on the TV than what they do in print or on the PC, it's a fact of life.
Having said all that, I have used digital images to create slide shows and also in my video projects. They don't look all that bad really. What worked for me was to reduce the images in size (crop and/or resize) in PhotoImpact, PS should work just the same but I don't use it, to an aspect ratio of 4:3 and a size of 1200 x 900 pixels. These where then saved to bmp format in PI, not jpeg, and put on the time line in MSP 7.3. On the PC, these looked anything as good in the video as they did in PI. On the TV not as good but reasonably crisp and sharp.