Exporting to a Windows Media File- best quality????

I imported a 15 -slide powerpoint (converted to jpeg) and added music, and Premiere transitions
The Premiere movie is about 3 minutes long.
I then needed to save (and burn to disks) as a Windows Media File. A program that all of my 35 business offices would have easy access to and could play the Business movie that I have created.
When I playback, the first "slide" looks great, the music sounds great... but when it makes it first trnasition to slide 2, the face on the picutre is fuzzy for about 2-3 seconds then becomes real clear..... going to slide 3, same thing.... slide 4.... same thing.
so I went to the Advanced settings. I have no clue what setting to change to make this fuzzy to clear part not happen.
CAN ANYONE give me a suggestion???????
I have Premiere Elements 4.
My settings show:
Preset- Cable Modem DSL
Codec WM video 9
Encoding Passes "two"
Bitrate:0 Variable Unconstrained
1282x960
Frame Rate : 60
Pixel Aspect Square 1.0
Decode Complexity auto
Keyframe Internal 5 seconds
Buffer default
Avg Bitrate 255

If you're intending to stream that WMV over the internet to your other offices, that 1280x960 frame size is pretty unrealistic.
WMVs are optimized for internet streaming at 320x240 pixels. At 16 times that size, your file would likely not flow smoothly even if you could successfully create a file that size.
If you use the Cable preset at its default setting, you'll do much better.
Other factors determining the quality of your output are:
What project settings you're using for your Premiere Elements project
What resolution your photos are in the slideshow (You want them to be as close to the actual size they'll be in the slideshow as possible -- with an ideal size of about 1000x750 pixels)
Finally, JPEG outputs from PowerPoint don't make the best source files for Premiere Elements slideshows.

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