Ulead VideoStudio 11 - IMAGE GETS BLURRY

Mavlon · Post by **Mavlon** » Mon Jul 28, 2008 9:06 pm

Hello everybody,

Program: Ulead VideoStudio 11

I am having problems when I add an image to my project.
The image shows up fine but when I play the clip it gets blurry for the image duration. The only time that it has worked normally is when I'm in Pan & Zoom mode and it plays in a loop perfectly. Does anyone know how to make it so the blur goes away? The sample image that came with VideoStudio11 also does the same thing so I know it isn't my image.

Thanks,
Mav

Post by **Ken Berry** » Mon Jul 28, 2008 9:48 pm

Welcome to the forums!

Have you actually rendered your project to a new video file (Share > Create Video File)? Is it blurry there too? I ask since the preview screen in Video Studio is rather bad for things like that. It is really only there to give you a general idea that everything is where it is supposed to be...

Mavlon · Post by **Mavlon** » Mon Jul 28, 2008 10:42 pm

Hi Ken,

I rendered the project and created an mpg video.
The blur went away but the quality isn't as good as I had hoped for.
Is there a way to make the image more clear in the video?

Post by **Ken Berry** » Mon Jul 28, 2008 11:21 pm

I am afraid that there are a wide variety of possible responses. I personally seem to be one of the lucky ones who, on sucessive and quite different computers, have been able to make slideshows with photos straight out of my quite different digital still cameras using successive versions of VS (well, at least since VS9 since I did not like the complications associated with making slideshows in VS7 and

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Other users, however, have your problem and various people use various things to correct it. Some reduce the resolution of the photos right down to something close to the frame size used by Video Studio (720 x 576 for PAL, 720 x 480 for NTSC). Note, however, that if you are using the Pan and Zoom filter, if you reduce the frame size down to this level, any zooming will start to show distortion artifacts. So you would probably need to use double that size (1440 x 1152 or 960) at the least instead.

Other users will crop their photos to the aspect ratio used by the project: 4:3 or 16:9.

Others will apply a sharpen filter to the photo in a third party photo editing program. And yet others will, somewhat paradoxically, use such a program to apply a very slight gaussian blur to the photo.

But I am afraid there is no simple one-size-fits-all solution, and you need to try the various methods and see if any of them produces a better result.

DLA · Post by **DLA** » Tue Jul 29, 2008 12:39 am

From menu, File -> Preferences -> Edit Tab -> Resampling Quality, set to best.

I use full resolution images from my 8 MP cam and never had issues.

When I render the file, I put the slider quality to 100 and use two-pass encode.