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[atchie]

I've made several slideshows over the years with EMC and most have turned out the way I wanted. A few, and sadly the most important one ever (for a memorial), had the dreaded lip synch problem. Not the end of the world at the end of the day   .

Now I'm about to start another one, primarily for uploading on the internet (easier than mailing discs out to everyone) and am wondering about the resolution of the photos that I will insert into the slideshow.
Should I lower the res before I add them or does it not make any difference?

Thanks~
Atchie

[d_deweywright]

atchie, on Sep 14 2006, 12:16 PM, said:

I've made several slideshows over the years with EMC and most have turned out the way I wanted. A few, and sadly the most important one ever (for a memorial), had the dreaded lip synch problem. Not the end of the world at the end of the day   .

Now I'm about to start another one, primarily for uploading on the internet (easier than mailing discs out to everyone) and am wondering about the resolution of the photos that I will insert into the slideshow.
Should I lower the res before I add them or does it not make any difference?

Thanks~
Atchie

The resolution you use initially should not make a difference here.  The final output resolution/bit rate will determine the actual resolution of your finished video.  For posting on the internet, you'll probably be selecting a relatively low bit rate output file, and the compression and final window size you select will reduce the resolution accordingly.

Hope that helps!

[braze]

Actually I find the resolution does make a difference, mainly when you
are using pan and zoom.  In that case you really want to use the high
res image, as if you say start with the 640x480 image and then pan
and zoom it, it will look crappy and will have alot of aliasing issues
versus starting with say a high res image and then panning and zooming.  Atleast that has been my experience.

[d_deweywright]

braze, on Sep 29 2006, 10:04 PM, said:

Actually I find the resolution does make a difference, mainly when you
are using pan and zoom.  In that case you really want to use the high
res image, as if you say start with the 640x480 image and then pan
and zoom it, it will look crappy and will have alot of aliasing issues
versus starting with say a high res image and then panning and zooming.  Atleast that has been my experience.

That's a good point.  I was assuming starting with larger images than that, but you're right, even a medium resolution image would definitely not look good when zoomed in on.