Picture quality poor when i make a movie using stills

Whenever i create a dvd movie using stills, the final product appears to lose quality. I.E. the pictures seem to shimmer and move for example a picture of a lake will look as though the lake is moving water rather than a still image. Any ideas on how to just keep it as a still image without parts of the photo appearing to shimmer or move.

Just another option that worked for me:
try creating the movie in iPhoto (turn off the background music feature, if it's still in 09; i was using 08) or even in Keynote. Then export/share as a quicktime movie and bring that into gargeBand for adding music tracks, then to iMovie for titling, then to iDVD
It may be a little convoluted, but the quality is better, imho.
Elizabeth

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When I rent a movie using Apple TV, it takes several hours to load and then I select watch later. When I go to my rented movies and try to watch it , it starts loading all over again. This can't be normal. Is there something that I am doing wrong?

When I rent a movie using Apple TV,it takes several hours to load. At this point, I opt to watch later. When I try to watch the movie, it starts loading again and tells me that it will be ready to watch in one hour forty four minutes. This can't be normal. Is there something I am doing wrong? Any suggestions.

If it's taking several hours then that is likely due to your internet connection. You can verify at speedtest.net
6mbps required for instant 720P
8mbps for 1080P
You can switch to SD in the settings (which only requires 3mbps)
You can also check istumbler or netstumbler for interference
Make sure you are on your ISPs DNS
The reloading is normal. There is no accessible storage on ATV. The small flash is used for caching streamed content, if you access other things or turn the device off it will be flushed.

When I publish a movie using Captivate 6 I sometimes get a slide that is overlayed with part of a previous slide. Does anyone know why this might be happening and what I can do to prevent it?

When I publish a movie using Captivate 6 I sometimes get a slide that is overlayed with part of a previous slide. Does anyone know why this might be happening and what I can do to prevent it?

Which version of 6? Check the slide quality, if it is at Low, push it to High or Optimized. Then uncheck all compression settings in Preferences, Project, SWF Size and Quality.

I am new to iMovies. When I make a video using the mic and camera in my Macbook Pro, the audio and video are not in synch. Very annoying. How can I fix this?

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DVD drives read the bottom of the disk, not the top. Smooth out the paper & try again.

IDVD picture quality poor

When I burned a movie of photographs in iMovie06 to play on both computers and TV my movie looked lovely. Now in iMovie09 it looks bad. What am I doing wrong?
Once I burn the movie onto a DVD the picture flickers. I am frustrated by poor quality movies that I no longer want to share with friends and family. I love the new map features and enjoy using the Ken Burns effect but I am not proud of my finished projects anymore. Does anyone have a suggestion about this problem?
I will appreciate your help.

kathydenise wrote:
When I burned a movie of photographs in iMovie06 to play on both computers and TV my movie looked lovely. Now in iMovie09 it looks bad. What am I doing wrong?
Once I burn the movie onto a DVD the picture flickers. I am frustrated by poor quality movies that I no longer want to share with friends and family. I love the new map features and enjoy using the Ken Burns effect but I am not proud of my finished projects anymore. Does anyone have a suggestion about this problem?
I will appreciate your help.
Kathy,
I assume you're talking about SD video? If so, download the free application MPEG Streamclip. Load your source video file there first, and do and "Export to Quicktime", which will create a Deinterlaced source file for iMovie 09 to work with that has the original quality from the source. iMovie 09 does throw away data on import. It is something I have reported to Apple and provided them with all the information to show what's happening. Until and unless they come up with a fix, you have to use either an older version of iMovie, or provide a different source to iMovie '09. The extra step through MPEG Streamclip is pretty painless and I can provide you with the parameters I use when setting up SD footage to be edited in iMovie '09.
Jay S.
There's also an excellent PDF file available called "The Ins and Outs of iMovie '09" which does an excellent job of explaining how to get the best out of iMovie '09. It also talks to the issue of iMovie '09 throwing away every other line of data.

How do i Make mp3 files play when i make a list using its component in flash cc?

I made a list of mp3 songs using the list component in Flash CC, but they do not play.
¿Is there a function that I am missing? I thought I could make a playlist using the list component,
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MP3Playlist.addItem( { label: "Tatuaje.mp3" } );
MP3Playlist.addItem( { label: "08 Mi Ultimo Adios.mp3" } );
MP3Playlist.addItem( { label: "La Noche del Sabado.mp3" } );
MP3Playlist.addItem( { label: "Dime.mp3" } );
MP3Playlist.addItem( { label: "Regresaré.mp3" } );
MP3Playlist.addItem( { label: "Por Decision Unanime.mp3" } );
MP3Playlist.addItem( { label: "Promesas.mp3" } );
MP3Playlist.addItem( { label: "Maldito.mp3" } );
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MP3Playlist.addItem( { label: "Olvidate de El.mp3" } );
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MP3Playlist.addItem( { label: "12 Tan Solo.mp3" } );
MP3Playlist.addItem( { label: "No Llores Mi Niña.mp3" } );
MP3Playlist.addItem( { label: "PIPIPARAOOOO.mp3" } );
MP3Playlist.addItem( { label: "05 me haces falta.mp3" } );
MP3Playlist.addItem( { label: "EL RECREO.mp3" } );
MP3Playlist.addEventListener(Event.CHANGE, songselected);
function songselected (event:Event):void{

im new at this, so, I don't know the structure ofhow to put all the code together....
¿where does this go?, ¿under my code or the middle? on top? etc
var mySound:Sound;
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Photos loose their quality when I make a movie

I'm new to iMovies and I'm creating a movie from photos of a recent event. The photos my wife took are great looking and the size of each photo is 1.7mb. When I drag a photo into the time line viewer, it drags a small size version of the photo (117 kb) and looses so much quality. I thought this was just for the development portion and it would still be linked to the original photo, but when I export the photo to Quicktime or share it to iDVD, the quality is terrible.
Any enlightenment as to what I'm doing wrong would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,

Reflections,
If you don't mind spending $50 I recommend "Photo to Movie"
Even "APPLE" says it's;
The advanced way to turn your digital photos into a spectacular QuickTime movie
http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/video/phototomovie.html
Let your creative juices flow, take off that technician's hat and let the artist in you emerge with "Photo to Movie" (or Fotomagic).
Oh yeah, "Welcome to the forum"

Poor quality video when I make a DVD

Hi,
I've been very disapointed when making DVDs from HD footage. I create a sequence in Premiere Pro CS5 and use the Dymnaic Link software to bring that sequence into Encore with out rendering it. The sharpness and clarity are fine on the original footage but as soon as I make it into a DVD the output is always less sharp and less defined. Now I understand it is reduced in definition when rendered for the DVD but if I buy a DVD and play it on a 65 inch high def TV it is almost as clear as a blue ray. The stuff I make doesn't even look good on a 25 inch TV:(.
Can any one help me figure out what I'm doing wrong?
thanx,
Mel

What are the recommended settings in Sorenson Squeeze 6.5 for making transcoded files for Encore CS 5 SD DVDs? Is this a good work around to the problem in this thread?
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Quality of digital photos is poor when I make a DVD

I spent hours putting together a slide show of wedding photos set to music using Imovie. These are professional shots that are high quality digital stills. I used the Ken Burns effect on them as well. When I burned my DVD and played it on my television the quality is decreased. anything that is shiny (e.g. jewelery) sparkles and it looks quite odd. What did I do wrong? Any help is greatly appreciated

msf,
Welcome to the Apple Discussion Forums.
Your expectations of what you can get may be too high. NTSC video is 640x480 pixels AT BEST and there is no way you can match the quality of high resolution digital images viewed on a computer monitor of 1280x1024 (or higher) resolution on an NTSC TV screen.
See iDVD 6.0 Help - Preparing images for DVD slideshows at http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=iDVD/6.0/en/17.html for an idea of what to expect.
anything that is shiny (e.g. jewelery) sparkles and it looks quite odd.
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Image quality poor when using "fit in window" view

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i´m getting familiar with PS CS3 Demo and what buffles me is the poor quality of the downsized view of large images. I loaded a 8 MP JPEG image from a digital camera and it looks good in 100%, but when i choose to view the whole image to fit the window (33,33% in my case), the resulting "downsampled" image is very jaggy and pixelated. I use a freeware image viewer called Xnview that gives me a far superior view when viewing large images downsized - i can even choose to select a "HQ" mode so those images get resampled to look better. It it normal that PS does not offer such a thing (or did i not see it?) and delivers such poor visual quality or is there something wrong with my PC?
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Though 6.735, 12.5, 25 and 50% views usually are OK too. "Image quality" is great, though sometimes deceivingly so. I guess I don't understand sampling enough to tell you why 33% looks bad (rounding errors, I suppose). But 66% makes sense. You're trying to stuff 3 pixels into the space of 2.
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Print quality poor when exporting tiff from Ai

I recently sent an Illustrator file to FedEx Office to be printed and it just didn't look great. What do I need to fix (other than getting a real printing company! ) in order to get a higher print quality?
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Created a file in Illustrator then exported it as a tiff. (I needed it cropped and didn't like what I got by cropping it using the Pathfinder steps/options.)
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Why is the photo quality poor when view on TV?

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Dorian

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http://www.boinx.com/fotomagico/overview/
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Thanks for your response.
Forgive me, please, but what is ide?
I guess I should retrace steps a bit.
I created an fla of my primary clip. It's actually 1428 frames.
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I have been exporting to QT movies regularly using the same internal and external drives for months - no changes, no incorrect formatting. I have used those exported movies to create One-Step DVDs in iDVD for display and distribution. This -av1 file thing is keeping me from doing that.
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I have tried for two months to make a movie using video and stills. It is fine in the timeline but then when I burn a disc the stills stick and just keep coming back and covering everything else. I turned the jpegs into Tiffs, then compressed with LZW

I am a beginner but I have made good movies on other programs in the past. I must be doing one basic thing wrong.

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