AVCHD Slide show

erdna · Post by **erdna** » Sun Nov 22, 2009 7:54 pm

I used to make a lot of SD PAL DVD slide shows. For less jaggies I first batch rezized my .jpg images to 720x576 instead of letting the editor to resize to the 720x576 PAL resolution. I experienced a huge improvement by creating AVCHD slideshows.

Henny · Post by **Henny** » Mon Nov 23, 2009 2:08 pm

trevor andrew wrote:
Rendering to DV-Avi then to Mpeg2 DVD seems to produce better results, rather than directly to Mpeg 2.

I guess this is also true for HD slideshows. By the way, those are the only ones I intend to make. In fact that's why I got VS X2 Pro. I still use MSP 8 for video.

Working in widescreen my images are 2048 x 1152 having been edited in Photoshop.
This is 16:9 ratio and fills the screen.

What is the size of your images?

For the test AVCHD hybrid disk I used 2520x1417, or something like that. They are not all inentical, since the camera produces 3:2 pictures, so I cut out a 16:9 piece. For the final slideshow I will probably use some more pixels, keeping the 16:9 ratio intact.

I have started using Frame Based where my shows are purely images (No Video)

That's what I did not during the test, but intend to do from now on.

Thank you for the very nice 'Quick User Guide'!

michell65 wrote: No it is empty anyway!

Yes, you are right, but so was the AUXDATA folder that spoiled my AVCHD disc.

Best regards,

Henny · Post by **Henny** » Mon Nov 23, 2009 2:15 pm

erdna wrote:I used to make a lot of SD PAL DVD slide shows. For less jaggies I first batch rezized my .jpg images to 720x576 instead of letting the editor to resize to the 720x576 PAL resolution. I experienced a huge improvement by creating AVCHD slideshows.

Do you also batch resize to 1920x1080 for your AVCHD slideshows? Is this the reason for the 'huge improvement' or the fact that you create HD then?

Regards,

erdna · Post by **erdna** » Mon Nov 23, 2009 4:28 pm

Yes, I batch resize also for the AVCHD slideshows. The reason is because I have better results (less jagging on slant lines) when I batch resize in PS Elements3 first. The far better results come from the AVCHD 1920x1080 resolution. pre-resizing makes it still better..IMO.

erdna · Post by **erdna** » Mon Nov 23, 2009 4:56 pm

Forgot to mention, that in order to keep full vertical resolution, I untick "anti flicker filter" in Preferences>edit, (before loading the pics onto the timeline), and also in the burning module (preferences) I untick the anti flicker setting. Antiflicker filters are vertical lowpass filters.

Trevor Andrew · Post by **Trevor Andrew** » Mon Nov 23, 2009 5:08 pm

Hi erdna

I have had problems in the past with Jpeg images saved as ¡¥Progressive¡¦
VS just didn¡¦t like them, although I must say X2 seems ok with them.
When I save as Baseline things went smoothly, and that¡¦s what I use now.

Interested to know if your originals are Progressive, and subsequently batch converts to Baseline.

Henny · Post by **Henny** » Tue Nov 24, 2009 1:46 pm

trevor andrew wrote:
I have had problems in the past with Jpeg images saved as ¡¥Progressive¡¦
VS just didn¡¦t like them, although I must say X2 seems ok with them.
When I save as Baseline things went smoothly, and that¡¦s what I use now.

Hi Trevor,

I used PSP Photo XI with the JPEG 'progessive' setting to save my 16:9 cut out and VS X2 did not accept them. Had to redo everything with standard settings (High Quality).

Regards,