Images pixelated in iDVD main screen
hi all,
i create an annual dvd with slideshows and videos. this is my 8th one and i've never had this problem before!
i'm using the idvd them "portfolio". when i first started populated the drop zones, everything was fine. the photos i'm using are hi-res and looked great. a few hours into making the video and SOME photos in the drops zones are all blurry and pixelated. i try dropping the photos in again, quitting, restarting, all that good stuff. nothing helped. i then re-exported the photos and put them in a different folder and dropped them into the drop zones. that worked and the photos were back to normal. until i left the main menu screen and some photos became pixelated again. what gives?! it's driving me crazy. i had it perfect and then as soon as i went to burn the dvd, the photos looked bad again.
here are screen shots of when it looks good and then when it doesn't.
It could just be the screen rendering of the images. Make a disk image of the project and play it with DVD Player. Check the images again and see if they are clear or blurred.
Follow this workflow to help assure the best qualty video DVD:
Once you have the project as you want it save it as a disk image via the File ➙ Save as Disk Image menu option. This will separate the encoding process from the burn process.
To check the encoding mount the disk image, launch DVD Player and play it. If it plays OK with DVD Player the encoding is good.
Then burn to disk with Disk Utility or Toast at the slowest speed available (2x-4x) to assure the best burn quality. Always use top quality media: Verbatim, Maxell or Taiyo Yuden DVD-R are the most recommended in these forums.
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http://carroll1.cc.edu/~tpatters/Scribble.html
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import javax.swing.border.*;
import java.awt.*;
import javax.swing.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import java.util.StringTokenizer;
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private JLabel lblRed = new JLabel("Red");
private JLabel lblGreen = new JLabel("Green");
private JLabel lblBlue = new JLabel("Blue");
private JScrollBar red,green,blue,size;
private JButton whiteBack= new JButton("White");
private JButton currentBack= new JButton("Current Color");
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private JButton gradient= new JButton("Set Gradient");
private JButton drawG=new JButton("Draw Gradient");
private JButton redraw=new JButton("Redraw");
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private int[] gradientEnd = new int[3];
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do
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String endGradient = JOptionPane.showInputDialog("Enter Ending Color as an r,g,b value\n\nColor Values lie between 0 and 255\n\nExample: 120,255,17");
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StringTokenizer endToken = new StringTokenizer(endGradient, ",");
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gradientStart[c]=Integer.parseInt(startToken.nextToken());
for (int c=0; c<3 ; c++)
gradientEnd[c]=Integer.parseInt(endToken.nextToken());
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setGrad=true;
while (valid==false);
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JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, "Please set a Gradient first","Error",JOptionPane.INFORMATION_MESSAGE);
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red = new JScrollBar(0,128,1,0,255);
green = new JScrollBar(0,128,1,0,255);
blue = new JScrollBar(0,128,1,0,255);
size = new JScrollBar(1,16,1,1,50);
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p1.setLayout(new GridLayout(1,3));
p1.setBorder(titleBorder);
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p2.setLayout(new BorderLayout());
p2.add(new JLabel("Size"), BorderLayout.NORTH);
p2.add(size, BorderLayout.CENTER);
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p3.add(info);
p3.add(whiteBack);
p3.add(currentBack);
p3.add(gradient);
p3.add(drawG);
p3.add(redraw);
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p4.setLayout(new GridLayout(4,1));
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p4.add(lblGreen);
p4.add(lblBlue);
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p5.add(green);
p5.add(blue);
p5.add(psychoColors);
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green.addAdjustmentListener(this);
blue.addAdjustmentListener(this);
size.addAdjustmentListener(this);
whiteBack.addActionListener(this);
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gradient.addActionListener(this);
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getContentPane().add(p2, BorderLayout.EAST);
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addMouseMotionListener(this);
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cycleGreen=ender[1];
cycleBlue=ender[2];
r=starter[0];
gr=starter[1];
b=starter[2];
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{r--;}
if (gr==cycleGreen)
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else if (gr>cycleGreen)
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z = image.getGraphics();
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else
z.setColor(color);
z.fillOval(e.getX() - (intsize/2), e.getY() - (intsize/2), intsize, intsize);
lineStart.move(e.getX(), e.getY());
gg.drawImage(image,0,0,this);
image = createImage(getWidth(), getHeight());
offscreen[undoCounter]=image.getGraphics();
offscreen[undoCounter].fillOval(0,0,100,255);
undoCounter++;
if (undoCounter == 5)
undoCounter=0;*/
gg.dispose();
z.dispose();
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