IPhoto slideshow photo quality?

I am working on a slideshow and it appears that the photos are losing resolution in the slideshow...how can I keep the clarity and sharpness in the photos?

You'll need to give a fuller description. Is this in the slideshow as you prepare it? Or is it after export?

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    Once creating a slideshow in Aperture 3, does it maintain the photo quality and not change?

    Actually, Slideshow images do not appear to retain the detail +even of the Preview on which they're supposedly based+. I have been using Previews carefully scaled to the maximum resolution of my monitor but have been dissatisfied with the apparent sharpness.
    Here is an enlarged screenshot of a landscape image's Quick Preview generated at 1920x1920 max resolution and displayed in Full Screen mode on my 1920x1200 monitor:
    !http://homepage.mac.com/steve_hoge/.Pictures/QuickPreviewDetail.jpg!
    However, here's a detail of the same image displayed full screen as a Slide Show:
    !http://homepage.mac.com/steve_hoge/.Pictures/SlideShowDetail.jpg!
    In these examples the difference in sharpness is most obvious in the contrasting areas around the circular mirror.
    Edges are clearly softer in the slideshow, and while the difference may appear relatively subtle at this scale, when the entire image is viewed - especially on a large display screen - there is an overall perception of softness across the whole image.
    I've worked around this by scaling up the Preview size to around 133% of my monitor resolution; beyond that there's little apparent increase in detail in the Preview when displayed at the monitor's lower resolution, and it successfully increases the sharpness of Slideshow images. I backed off one notch on the Preview quality and for most of my images the resulting Preview actually has a smaller file size than before.
    Here's a screenshot of a newer, sharper Slideshow image generated from a 2560x2560 Preview but still displayed on my 1920x1200 monitor:
    !http://homepage.mac.com/steve_hoge/.Pictures/ImprovedSlideShowDetail.jpg!
    According to the Aperture documentation and [knowledge base article|http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3781] covering this subject, a Slideshow image based on a Preview size larger than your display shouldn't appear any sharper - but it does.
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  • Iphoto slideshow photo titles lost in idvd6

    I am creating a dvd project using iphoto slideshows.
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    Aloha ... I have two issues that I am having problems with when I export to IDVD. My images look very fuzzy (originals are very high res and print quality images} when exported to iDVD and a DVD is made. Also in the show my vertical images look fine and fill the screen yet on iDVD they are made shorter/squatier and upper and lower parts of the original image are lost. The format is wide screen as is the show. I am using a LCD wide screen TV if that helps. Any ideas out there?

    Welcome to the Apple Discussions. Are you cropping your photos to the 16:9 ratio before creating the widescreen slideshow in iPhoto and exporting them to iDVD for a widescreen project? Most digital camera images are in the 4:3 size ratio and don't convert well to the widescreen. Also check the aspect ratio that you're playing the dvd in as that can have an effect on how the slideshow looks.
    Also remember that the images going to iDVD will be reduced to 640 x 480 (normal TV) and slightly larger for the widescreen version. So the pixel dimensions of the original image are not that relevant.
    Happy Holidays
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    Is there a way to manually dictate the JPG image quality upon iphoto export to web? The images the automatic web portfolio is very poor. Quality 5 at best.
    There must be a way to hard set this export feature.

    There are two quality levels involved when you add iPhoto photos to an iWeb photo page: 1 - the quality of the image used for the iWeb slideshow presentation and that of the file provided for download from that site. Which are you concerned with?
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    I tried creating it in iMovie and it's the same thing.

    I am trying to create a project for a client. It is a slideshow with music. Seems simple??? NOPE!
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  • Poor photo quality when exporting iPhoto slideshow

    Does anyone know which setting produces the best quality for an mp4 when creating a DVD using iDVD? I put a slideshow together using iPhoto because I wanted to use the iPhoto scrapbook theme. I exported the iPhoto slideshow using the highest quality (standard display setting) which produces an mp4 1422 x 800 (H.264, 30 fps, 7 Mbps, ~907 MB).
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    2) High Quality
    3) Professional Quality
    What doesn't make sense to me is that #1 claims to produce a total ~1GB DVD with a 995 MB movie and shows the Quality level as green.
    When selecting #2, the claim is a total ~643 DVD with a 575 MB movie with Quality in the red.
    When choosing #3, the numbers stay the same as #2 but the Quality goes to yellow.
    Why wouldn't the higher quality settings produce a larger DVD with less compression? Which setting really gives the highest quality?
    The default is #1 (Best Performance) which clearly produces the lowest quality video when compared to the mp4 export from iPhoto (appeared with a higher quality) and when compared with playing the slideshow directly in iPhoto (appeared with the highest quality).
    Would the quality be any higher if I export the iPhoto slideshow using a customized setting? iPhoto custom settings allow the choice of about 10 different compression types from Animation, Apple Intermediate Codec, to DV/DVCPRO - NTSC, to H.264, to MPEG-4 Video, to None (and others not listed here). The frame Rate can also be adjusted from Current (whatever that means), to 8, to 60. The Compressor Quality can be adjusted from Least to Best. Would "None" as the compression type produce the best quality when producing the iDVD?
    The ultimate goal is to display the slideshow on the project at my church. The easiest way to do this is to put it on a DVD. But as described above, the quality decrease from iPhoto direct play of the slideshow is noticeable when moving to the .mp4 and extremely noticeable when putting the .mp4 in iDVD and playing the DVD back.
    Thanks in advance for any suggestions or links to better documentation.

    you just cannot export your slideshows in order to burn DVDs, with the same quality
    That's an issue with iDVD and the DVD standards. All DVD media is downsized to 640 x 480 or the wide screen 720 x 480. It's the nature of DVDs, not iPhoto. If you use the Ken Burns effect in iPhoto you will need to use the largest 4:3 ratio images possible so the zoom and scan of the KB effect is working on the most number of pixels possible.
    I've found that the best final image resolution is obtained by creating the slideshow in iDVD from stills imported from iPhoto at the 4:3 size ratio. The downside to that method is no KB effect and only one transition per slideshow. I play those types of slideshows on a 50" 1020p HD Panasonic plasma TV and the images are quite good. But good is in the eye of the beholder.
    See Jim Symon's post in this iDVD topic: Re: High-definition DVDs. Also search his other posts as he was working out a workflow using Photo to Movie to create high def movies and burn them with iDVD. As I recall he found and posted his workflow at one time.

  • IPhoto slideshow to iDVD gives poor movie quality

    Hello,
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    iPhoto's feature: "Share > Send to iDVD" is really great, except that it converts my slideshow to a compressed QuickTime .mov file.
    I really, really do not like what the QuickTime compression is doing to my image quality.
    I seem to recall that iPhoto was once able to export as an uncompressed .DV file. But I can no longer find that feature or workaround.
    Does anyone know of a way to turn an iPhoto slideshow into a .DV file? Or, at least some kind of video file that iDVD will recognize and which does not use compression (like AVI or something?).
    Thanks in advance!

    Another 3rd party slideshow application with many export options is PhotoPresenter. It has Full Quality option for exporting which is 768 x 576. It also has over 25 animated themes. This demo page has examples of some of them.
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    Note: There's now an Automator backup application for iPhoto 5 that will work with Tiger or Leopard.

  • Iphoto slideshow to idvd: quality & burning issues...

    I've made a few slideshows in iphoto due to the Ken Burns effect and also the ability to choose full screen or widescreen. I made DVDs for friends with full and myself with wide for my widescreen- and that works fine.
    My question is about the quality of the movies. Obviously a substantial loss of quality from viewing the show in iPhoto on my Powerbook...
    Is there a better way to do this with better results? Using iMovie? (Never have used that app before..) Each show has 100-250 slides and I choose a music playlist from iTunes. I am a quality freak and looking the uncrisp images isn't too thrilling.
    (Even when playing the disk image in the DVD Player on my Powerbook and comparing with the original project file- it's a little more fuzzy.)
    Also, I just got an external Lacie burner (I have combo drive) and have much unsuccess with burning. I have repaired permissions and create as a disk image in iDVD. It plays back great from the disk image in DVD Player on Powerbook. This specific movie is 2.4 GB and I have 10.1 free dis space.
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    *Disk Utility will not burn the image. It begins and then stops and says there are errors (not specific)...
    *iDVD goes through 4 or 5 steps and right at the end says "Errors during burning"
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    *TOAST- Using the DVD-Video from Video-TS (as recommended on various boards) does not work. It finishes but won't verify and nothing plays...
    *TOAST- using DVD-Video: The menu made in iDVD isn't functional. Can't choose different slideshows... Won't highlight, etc...
    *TOAST- using "Data" DVD-ROM (UDF):
    THIS IS THE ONLY THING THAT HAS WORKED AND PROJECTS ARE ABLE TO BE VERIFIED. MENUS ARE FUNCTIONAL IN MY 2 DVD PLAYERS...
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    Video DVDs are 720X480 (NTSC). Much lower resolution than straight iPhoto slideshows and your original photos. Nothing you can do about this until either HD-DVD or Blu-Ray technology come to the market and are affordable.
    iMovie will not be better resolution after it is sent to DVD. You could export to HD resolution QT files (H.264, etc.) and play those on computers with QT and keep higher resolution. But those won't play with commercial DVD players.
    Disk Utility will not burn the image.
    Can you verify the mounted image with Disk Utility?
    Can you burn other data DVDs with the finder and with Toast succesfully?
    You should be able to use both the Video_TS drag into DVD-Video for Toast and the direct image burn in Toast, as well as Disk Utility. I wonder if there is an error in the image, so see if you can verify the mounted image with DU.
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  • How do I create the highest quality dvd of an iphoto slideshow?

    I have created a large (550 photos) slideshow in iphoto using one of the iphoto templates and added music to the slideshow.  The photos are high quality/large file size photos.  I would like to then combine the iphoto slideshow with an imovie trailer.  When I have gone through through the process of exporting the slideshow out of iphoto and into imovie and then burning a disk with idvd, the quality of the dvd is poor.  I am using the latest versions of iphoto, imovie, and idvd.  I would appreciate any advice on how to produce the highest quality dvd from the slideshow as it is part of a gift recapping a trip.

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