I am trying to make a movie with ULEAD VIDEO STUDIO 11 and when I import the images from a file they look fine but as soon as I put them into the timeline the images become blurry. Then when I play it the movie is blurry. All the photos that I am using are high resolution so that can't be the problem. Can anyone help? I have used the program many times and this has never happened. Please help!
Thanks Steve,
I have read that forum and I am not cropping photos I am just using the same size that the pics are coming in off the camera. Also I have created images in Photoshop and made sure they are high resolution too. The text is also blurry.........
I am finding the same problem with using Windows Movie Maker. The images are blurry when they are put into the timeline.
Do you have any other suggestions or is this something that just happens and once you burn the movie it is clear.
What sizes are your "high resolution images"? How do you define high res?
Your TV screen is not high resolution, not even the HD ones. For VS, to convert your images into TV resolution video for DVD, it has to resize the images. It can only do that by discarding pixels. The more it has to discard the worse it gets.
It's best to use images close to the TV frame size. Use a good image editing program to resize your images for TV/DVD use. High resolution images taken with digital cameras of 8 or 10 MP only give you a better print because you can combine your image pixels into a high dpi for printing. Your TV cannot do that. Each pixel of your image is using one pixel of your TV screen. If there are too many, the excess needs to be discarded and the contents of the adjacent pixels estimated.
I think that did it. I really shrunk them down from something like 2,500x1800 to 600x358 and that seemed to do the trick. Is this explained anywhere in the manual cause I sure didn't see it anywhere?
I don't know if the manual covers this anywhere but this question is asked over and over again. Some people claim they can insert images straight from the camera and they look good but this never worked for me.
I also don't use VS but its big brother MediaStudioPro8. I have a 4 MP compact and an 8 MP DSLR. The images straight from the 8 MP camera look worse.
Since I only have a standard definition TV (PAL) I resize/crop my images in PhotoImpact 12 to a true 4:3 aspect ratio of 1200 x 900 pixels and save these as bmp, not jpeg, after some resharpening.
These images come out crisp and clear.
Before I get kicked again by someone who beggs to differ: I'm not claiming this is the only way of achieving this but it is the only one that works for me.
I agree with Heinz - it works for me to in VideoStudio - only difference is I use 800 x 600 - which I originally used because I thought it was fairly close to the TV image resolution - and was two numbers I could easily work out as 4:3 !!!
I have to agree with some of the other people who are experiencing distorted images in the final rendered DVD using VS11+. I have our company logo which is 1200 pixels per inch (also tried with 300 pixels per inch version... no real difference). And it just plain looks bad on the DVD. The rest of the DVD looks fine, including the video track and the titles. The boss isn't too happy to see the logo look as bad as it does. It looks very sharp when I first put it into the timeline, but regardless of whether or not I apply motion to it, it looks bad on the DVD. I was so disappointed after waiting 5 hours for the DVD to render only to see the poor quality logo as the first thing that is displayed. Please tell me there is a solution. Thanks!
