Hello All,
I'd like some advice on some basic stuff please, stuff that I could imagine being in a forum 'sticky' or faq. 2 areas really:
1. Title Safe Area (TSA) - I have an old TV and I think that it is giving me "false" indications. Currently I have TSA set to 16% which seems far too high. I have taken my fledgling project to a neighbour's, but they have a wide flat screen and the DVD looks fine. What are people's 'normal' TSA setting?
2. Is there any recommended standard advice for providing photo slideshows in their projects?
I have 2 issues:
2a. slight flickering
2b. images have bits chopped out.
I know the above is sort of off subject - covered by other forums maybe, but it seems that there must be certain things ALL users of DW2 would need to do if they included photos in their projects.
For instance, I found the following link (http://phpbb.ulead.com.tw/EN/viewtopic. ... t=guassian) that may resolve my flickering photo issue.
But doesn't this affect most people that include photos, or is it that most Users of DW2 don't include photos?
Or should we be creating a slideshow as a video instead?
FYI - I have used the product for a while - I am creating a travel DVD - a work in progress.
I've also put a backlog of family snapshots onto DVD so that we can easily look at them.
I've learnt a lot, some the hard way and some via looking at this forum (and others) and following the tutorials.
Thanks in advance,
Dave
Title Safe Area, 'Stickies' re: including photos
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uleadbbuserds
Well I guess that everyone just gets on with the issues I queried, as did I 
.
1. I created a project and messed about with Title Safe Area;
2a. I looked at various postings and websites and applied (PI8) 'blur'. I'm not sure that I ought to do it to all my photos, but I guess I can work that out.
2b. What I can't seem to work out is - Portrait images - the top and bottoms are not displayed in the final version on TV - looks ok in the project on PC.
For my own part/understanding, only landscape photos import seamlessly into DWS and through to TV ok.
Portrait photos, from source, have to be rotated (which you can do in an editor (PI8) or DWS) and any way that I've tried to do this, I still get truncated images.
As I mentioned above, I trolled the net for advice on this last subject, but can't see anything - anyone have any views or am I in the wrong forum?
Ta,
Dave
.1. I created a project and messed about with Title Safe Area;
2a. I looked at various postings and websites and applied (PI8) 'blur'. I'm not sure that I ought to do it to all my photos, but I guess I can work that out.
2b. What I can't seem to work out is - Portrait images - the top and bottoms are not displayed in the final version on TV - looks ok in the project on PC.
For my own part/understanding, only landscape photos import seamlessly into DWS and through to TV ok.
Portrait photos, from source, have to be rotated (which you can do in an editor (PI8) or DWS) and any way that I've tried to do this, I still get truncated images.
As I mentioned above, I trolled the net for advice on this last subject, but can't see anything - anyone have any views or am I in the wrong forum?
Ta,
Dave
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heinz-oz
I guess a DVD authoring program may not be something most people use for slide shows. There are other programs better suited for it. Having said all that, one has to keep in mind though that all of these programs are facing the same issues.
There are a few things one should consider. Some you mentioned already yourself, like Title safe area and flickering of still images. The aspect ratio is another and general resolution issues of TV displays.
You state your location as being in the UK. I guess this means PAL video standard, right. The standard frame size for full frame PAL DVD is 720 x 576 pixels, aspect ratio 4:3 or 16:9.
All TVs have a so called overscan area, that means not all of the 720 x 576 pixels are displayed on your TV screen, hence the title safe area. On average, the overscan could be around the 15% margin.
Usually, landscape images do not have significant detail right up to the edge of the image whereas portraits usually show something tall and as big as possible. I guess that's why you noticed the missing top and bottom portions more with these than with the others. Both formats have the extremes on the long side cut off by the overscan. If you keep your images smaller than the maximum image size and use a fill frame to bring them up to full frame size, you would not notice any missing portions.
The flicker you notice on highly detailed images is caused by the interlacing of the TV image (each TV frame has two fields, upper and lower). What that means in real terms is this, the TV picture is displayed line by line but not progressively. Every second scan line is produced in each field like line 1; 3; 5; etc in one field and line 2; 4; 6; etc in the other. Any detail as small as one pixel is likely to show in one field but not the other, hence the image tends to flicker. This can be overcome by slightly blurring the image. Some people prefer to use gaussian blurr others, like myself, prefer a slight vertical motion blurr, 2 pixels worth should do the trick.
On the PC you can see the whole image (no overscan) and therefore the images look ok there but get truncated on the TV.
What size are your images?
There are a few things one should consider. Some you mentioned already yourself, like Title safe area and flickering of still images. The aspect ratio is another and general resolution issues of TV displays.
You state your location as being in the UK. I guess this means PAL video standard, right. The standard frame size for full frame PAL DVD is 720 x 576 pixels, aspect ratio 4:3 or 16:9.
All TVs have a so called overscan area, that means not all of the 720 x 576 pixels are displayed on your TV screen, hence the title safe area. On average, the overscan could be around the 15% margin.
Usually, landscape images do not have significant detail right up to the edge of the image whereas portraits usually show something tall and as big as possible. I guess that's why you noticed the missing top and bottom portions more with these than with the others. Both formats have the extremes on the long side cut off by the overscan. If you keep your images smaller than the maximum image size and use a fill frame to bring them up to full frame size, you would not notice any missing portions.
The flicker you notice on highly detailed images is caused by the interlacing of the TV image (each TV frame has two fields, upper and lower). What that means in real terms is this, the TV picture is displayed line by line but not progressively. Every second scan line is produced in each field like line 1; 3; 5; etc in one field and line 2; 4; 6; etc in the other. Any detail as small as one pixel is likely to show in one field but not the other, hence the image tends to flicker. This can be overcome by slightly blurring the image. Some people prefer to use gaussian blurr others, like myself, prefer a slight vertical motion blurr, 2 pixels worth should do the trick.
On the PC you can see the whole image (no overscan) and therefore the images look ok there but get truncated on the TV.
What size are your images?
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uleadbbuserds
portrait image too large
heinz-oz,
Thanks for your reply.
Yes, I'm a "PAL" man!
The image that I have focused on is 1200 x 1600.
I've also created an image 576 x 768 and paste/reduced the (above) source image into this size and it still appears too large.
Is the 'fill frame' you mentioned a DW2 option (can't see it) or an image editor function (I have PI8)?
Thanks
Thanks for your reply.
Yes, I'm a "PAL" man!
The image that I have focused on is 1200 x 1600.
I've also created an image 576 x 768 and paste/reduced the (above) source image into this size and it still appears too large.
Is the 'fill frame' you mentioned a DW2 option (can't see it) or an image editor function (I have PI8)?
Thanks