Per-resize photo for slideshow?

[budbon]

I recently read somewhere that if you resize your photos to the screensize before putting them in VideoStudio, you would get higher quality slideshow video. Is that true? I could just do the experiment but was hoping someone else might have the answer here.

[teknisyan]

I personally do not resize the images when creating a slideshow using videoStudio. But I try to select the option "SAME AS PROJECT SETTINGS" when creating a video file and if you want to create a disc, I make sure that quality is at 100% or any settings near 100% and the video data rate is set anywhere between 6000 to 8000 kbps.

That's just for me.

[Trevor Andrew]

Hi

The aspect of a video frame will be either 4:3 or 16:9 for widescreen, certainly HD video uses 16:9 as its aspect ratio.
So if you wish to fill the screen then your images have to use these aspects otherwise you will get a border to the left and right.
Having said that it is not essential to fill the screen and some interesting effects can be achieved using Picture in Picture effects.

The standard definition video uses 720 x …. as its frame size

High Definition uses up to 1920 x 1080, now your images need to be the same or greater than these sizes to keep the quality, if you intend to use Pan & Zoom then increasing these sizes will help in maintaining quality.
P & Z….There have been some issues with quality and deselecting the “Apply Anti-Flickering Filter seems to improve things, seems strange saying that I know.

So can you give further details…..
What are you trying to make? a standard DVD, a HD DVD, or video for the internet.
What version or Video Studio are you using?
And how big are your images, the pixel size?