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[Cody]

I am creating a DVD movie of my sons football season and all of my pictures are 5-8 megs. Will the bigger file size help the picture quality? If not what size would give me the best results? Also, I will putting music into the show and I plan on having about 20 minutes of production. It all has to fit one DVD as well. What are your recomendations on the Jpeg size of the pictures if I am goimg to be using around 400 pictures?

[james_hardin]

Final output size will be DVD Movie Standard of 720 X 480 for a 1 hour 4.7gb DVD.

This gives about 9 seconds per slide (3600 sec / 400 slides) minus the duration of any transitions you choose.

This is for best quality. If you put on more slides on or use a lot of chapters your 'Video' time is reduced or quality will be sacrificed to make it fit.

[Cody]

I read that by burning the production as a CD movie the picture quality would be better. Is this true? I would have to give up all the effects but I could still have music to have a better looking movie, correct? If so can I still trim the music for a cheep chapter speration? Also will the CD movie play on DVD players?

Is is also better to save and burn the ISO file rather than from the MY DVD menu?

Thanks

[james_hardin]

There is no such thing as a "CD movie"!

There is a VCD @ VCD 352 X 240.

There is an SVCD 480 X 480.

And there is a special,  no menu, option under the SlideShow Assistant that is suppose to create a higher resolution on a CD.


I have never used SS Assistant so I cannot really say what it looks like. Have to try it and see what it looks like.

The ISO is great if you want to make multiple copies or are having burning problems. It is also the most compact way to store a finished project.

[Cody]

I created a test movie in Video Wave and then saved it. I then went to My DVD and loaded the project and burned it under the HQ setting / no menu and the pictures quality is still very poor. I mean real poor! This was just veiwing the DVD my laptop. I am scared to think what it would like on a TV. Is there no way to get a high resolution movie of pictures with the quality like Power Point? I am disapointed right now with Creater 9. I hope I missed something or you can let me know what other software could do this.

Thanks for your help,

Cody

[sknis]

I created a test movie in Video Wave and then saved it. I then went to My DVD and loaded the project and burned it under the HQ setting / no menu and the pictures quality is still very poor. I mean real poor! This was just veiwing the DVD my laptop. I am scared to think what it would like on a TV. Is there no way to get a high resolution movie of pictures with the quality like Power Point? I am disapointed right now with Creater 9. I hope I missed something or you can let me know what other software could do this.

Thanks for your help,

Cody

There is something wrong if the slide show is not as good as standard TV.  Perhaps the video on your desk top needs to be updated.  Play it on a DVD player connected to your TV; it may be better than what you expect.

If you have the "Toys", read this in the Tips and Trick area of V10.

[james_hardin]

Roxio software as well as all software can only make DVD Movies to the international standards that I have outlined.

I did run my test DVD, VCD & SVCD on one of my Players that will do all three (VCD/SVCD is becoming rare on US Players). All played well and frankly I could see no difference.

[grandpabruce]

I created a test movie in Video Wave and then saved it. I then went to My DVD and loaded the project and burned it under the HQ setting / no menu and the pictures quality is still very poor. I mean real poor! This was just veiwing the DVD my laptop. I am scared to think what it would like on a TV. Is there no way to get a high resolution movie of pictures with the quality like Power Point? I am disapointed right now with Creater 9. I hope I missed something or you can let me know what other software could do this.

Thanks for your help,

Cody

Try burning that slide show using Software render instead of hardware render.  I use software render, because Roxio software and NVidia video cards don't play nicely together on hardware render.  The video quality comes out looking pretty poor.  With software render, it is outstanding.

The only bad thing about software render, you can't use 3-D transitions.

Edited by grandpabruce, 23 October 2007 - 05:53 AM.

[Cody]

Try burning that slide show using Software render instead of hardware render.

How do you burn using software render instead of hardware render?

I contacted the photo lab that does my prints and they use Pro Show for events showing photos on a DVD. I would rather not buy another software if I can get this one to work.

Thanks for helping and I look forward to to your reply.

[malatekid]

How do you burn using software render instead of hardware render?

I contacted the photo lab that does my prints and they use Pro Show for events showing photos on a DVD. I would rather not buy another software if I can get this one to work.

Thanks for helping and I look forward to to your reply.

In MyDVD, select Tools->Option. Check the radio button beside Software.

http://forums.support.roxio.com/index.php?...st&p=158653

Edited by malatekid, 23 October 2007 - 08:20 AM.