Picture Quality for Portrait

[nepsa]

I have the new VS x4. My experience with both x3 and x4 have been good. They produce an excellent DVD. In most cases , I use both video and pictures . My problem is with my pictures that are portrait format. When I play them on the TV, they are not sharp as with landscape pictures. Some are some what distorted. My thought is, they have to be compressed for the Tv screen, but not sure. Anyone else had that problem and what did you do to correct it.

Thanks

Nepsa

[Trevor Andrew]

Hi Nepsa

When we add images to the timeline we have two options as to how they are displayed.

1 / Keep aspect ratio, will display the image correctly, however it will not fit the screen a border will be seen left and right.

2 / Fit to project, will stretch the image to fit the screen, with portrait types this can be quite dramatic.
Landscape types will change a little, depending on the aspect of your original images.

Can you confirm just how you are adding the images and if any filters have been applied.
also are you working with widescreen video 16:9 or standard 4:3 aspect ratios

[nepsa]

The pictures are set to "fit aspect ratio" and set to 16:9. The only filter is anti-flicking filter on photos.
Some additional information: 24 bits, picture size 35,778 KB, width-2848, height 4288

Do you think if I make the pictures at a smaller resolution would hope. As soon as I get some time , I plan to do some experimenting.

[teknisyan]

I usually follow the steps posted by Trevor but I first create a video file using the option "SAME AS PROJECT SETTINGS", then create a disc using that file.

Slideshow I created a usually do not have any problem. here's one of them.