Premiere Elements 12 photo slideshow

Hi! Im working on creating a slideshow that needs to be playable on both a DVD & online. I went ahead and created a test slideshow and while in elements it looks fine when uploaded to vimeo the resolution is really low and can not even be expanded into full screen without looking out of focus. I am sure I am using the wrong preset or something? This slideshow will be shown projected on a huge screen so the resolution need to be optimal.
Secondly, what is an easy way to add a white background to vertical images? Instead of the standard black.
Thank you so much in advance. I have looked online plenty but can not find a good tutorial on making this work.

LucaZoPhoto
I am not sure whether you are in a NTSC or PAL setup or if your Premiere Elements 12 is running on Windows 7, 8, or 8.1 64 bit computer. For now, I will assume Premiere Elements 12 on Windows 7, 8, 8.1 64 bit in a NTSC setup. (NTSC vs PAL HD does not have the same significance as it does for NTSC vs PAL SD, but regional frame rates need to be factored in.)
All that being said this is what I would like you to consider for setting the baseline for your slideshow...
1. 100 photos with pixel dimensions of 5735 x 3828 pixels. That is 3:2, typical aspect ratio of photos. For video, think 4:3 or 16:9. Here we are going to think 16:9. For your source, we are going to need batch cropping/resizing since we are going from 3:2 to 16:9 and not 16:9 to 16:9 in the resizing. Please check out the free IrfanView for this purpose or an alternative method of your choice if you have one.
http://www.irfanview.com/
I would suggest a batch cropping resizing to 16:9 2200 x 1238.
2. Open Premiere Elements 12 to the Expert workspace and set the project preset manually as follows.
a. In the opened project, go to File Menu/New/Project and set the project preset for
NTSC
DSLR
1080p
DSLR 1080p30 @ 29.97
Before exiting that area, make sure to have a check mark next to "Force Selected Project Settings on This Project".
3. Then back in the Premiere Elements 12 Expert workspace, import your photos via Add Media/Files and Folders/Project Assets from where you drag your photos to the Timeline.
4. Render the Timeline by pressing the Enter key of the computer main keyboard or by pressing the Render button above the Timeline. What does the play back of the rendered Timeline look like in the Edit Mode monitor?
If OK, you can apply menus via Tools/Movie Menu and/or move on to export....
5. Export choices to consider...
Publish + Share
Disc
DVD disc
with preset = NTSC_Widescreen_Dolby DVD
(Frame Size 720 x 480 with the 16:9 for display after encoding)
Publish + Share
Computer
AVCHD
with preset = MP4 H.264 1920 x 1080p30
(depending on Vimeo's limitations at the Vimeo web site, that file could be uploaded to Video at the Vimeo web site from its computer hard drive save location.
Publish + Share
Social Websites
Vimeo
with preset = Vimeo HD
(but here the you will be uploading to 1280 x 720 @ 29.97 frames per second...no export settings customization)
Once we establish settings for presentation of good video and audio quality in a mini test run before the grand project, then we can detail convenience features, like applying the same transition more than one at a time, etc.
Depending on your computer resources, some of the photo sizing details could be stretched but since the max resolution in all this is 1920 x 1080, anything more than that typically does not improve quality and often jeopardizes the program.
Please review, consider, try, and, if clarification needed please let us know.
Thank you.
ATR

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    I'm creating a slideshow using photos and videos, but with my photos I want to be able to create a few collages, by using multiple photos on the one slide. Usually you just have one photo on the screen and it moves on to the next one, but I'd like to have eg. the occassional slide that I can have say 4 photos overlapping onto each other, like a photo collage. Does this make sense and does anyone know how I can do this? I've searched the instructions and can't figure it out and the Adobe support line said they couldn't tell me but pointed me to this forum...
    Any help would be much appreciated!
    Thanks :)

    There are basically two ways, with a variation, to do this.
    First, you could size the still images in Photoshop, or other, for the size needed on your Project's screen and then use Motion to position the image where you want it. The variation on this would be to use Motion>Scale to size the image and then Motion to place it where you wanted. You would stack the images on various Video Tracks as necessary.
    The other way would be to place the images on the correct Video Track and use the Track Matte to limit the view of that image. You will probably use one of the two variations from the first way (Motion>Scale and/or Motion) to get the image where you want it, but then the Track Matte (building in Titler is easy) to eliminate any extraneous image data.
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