Importing and working with super hi-res images in X5.

[Clemery76]

Hi everyone...

I am new here, please be nice to me!

I am working with Corel VideoStudio Pro X5, and wanted to include a super hi-res image that I would zoom in and out from. When I import the image, it has clearly been condensed and is highly pixelated when zoomed in. Is there a way I can use the video with the full original quality?

The image itself is a bitmap, and is a collage created from 121 photos of the Santa Monica pier. The intention was to start the clip fully zoomed into one single photo on this collage and zoom out slowly to reveal the many other shots that were taken. I created this massive image in Photoshop, and the resultant image is 22,000 x 14,850 pixels (934Mb). I have also exported the image as a PSD, RAW, and PDF, however only the BMP and PSD seem to be able to be imported into VS X5... both of which suffer from severe blurring and pixellation when imported.

To be fair, Windows picture viewer also displays the image as very blurry and pixellated when zoomed into one single photo, however all versions appear fine in Photoshop.

Is anyone able to shed some light on how I could get the full-quality image to be workable in Corel VS X5?

Many thanks in advance!

[lata]

Hi

Unfortunately you are working with a video editor not an image editor.

Video Studio X5 default video frame size is 720 x 576 x 16:9, for a pal image size would be effectively 1024 x 720.

Although X5 will output to HD 1920 x 1080 we have to cheat to set that as the project properties to use 1920.
Go to Settings Project Properties – Microsoft Avi files – Edit to…

PAL (25 fps)
Microsoft AVI files
24 bits, 1920 x 1080, 25 fps
Frame-based
Uncompressed
PCM, 48.000 kHz, 16 Bit, Stereo

The problem is that that is the maximum frame size so you are adding a 22,000 x 14,850 image to a smaller frame.
Video Studio is literally stripping the pixels to show the image..

Setting the above should view a little better.

I have not used images of that size, so I am not sure how good a quality you are going to get.
Interesting exersize……….

I assume you will output to High Definition at 1920 x 1080

[asik1]

If your intention is only "traveling" on this large image, get the X7 trial , and use the image pan & zoom feature.

[canuck]

Clemery76,

exactly what is it you want achieve as a final product - a video playable on a computer, a DVD or BluRay or what?

[Clemery76]

Thanks for the responses everyone...

Ultimately, I have created one single large image, comprised of multiple photos layed out in a grid formation: 11 rows of 11 photos.

My intention was to slowly zoom out from this image... starting zoomed into the one single photo in the centre of this large image, slowly zooming out to reveal all the other shots in the image. (asik1 - I was using the pan and zoom for this). The problem is that when I do zoom into the image, there is severe quality loss. I assume this to be a limitation of Corel, as when I view the big file via Adobe and other select third-party image viewers, I can zoom into one photo and retain the original quality. The exported video retains the quality loss.

I understand the difference in resolution between my super-hi-res image and the resultant exported video (yes, indeed I intend to export all as 1920x1080 25fps), however I would have expected that Corel would scale the image to suit during zoom, but it seem to import the image in a compressed form from the beginning. That said, when I import my other photos of the trip (which are 3888x2592), there is absolutely no quality loss whatsoever. I even tried using a smaller sample of the image (3 rows of 5 pics per row)... and while it was still a higher-resolution, it still suffered from an equal amount of pixellation when imported into Corel.

I think this is just something that I am not going to get past and will have to rethink my video!

[Clemery76]

Canuk, I will be exporting it as a HD 1080 digital video file for upload to YouTube. Its basically a slideshow of photos and video clips from a recent trip.

[asik1]

Have you tried export to 4k? UT excepts that.
Or try this freeware http://download.videohelp.com/tin2tin/ using it's animation part.