SOS - pic quality sharp thru slideshow transition, then "settles" pixel-y
Hi, Desperate for immediate help b/c the slideshow I made has to be played later today at a memorial service. Also not sure whether or not I should post in iMovie or iDVD, but starting here.
Created a slideshow, 115 images, cross dissolve transition (so I could "bulk" add the transition), 4 audio clips, and photoshop-created title and ending slides. I could SWEAR the first time I watched the slideshow WITHOUT transitions, every picture looked normal.
Now when I watch the final product, I can see the new pic transition in and at the last second, when the picture is its sharpest, it's like it loses focus slightly and becomes pixel-y.
Then just before it transitions out, it gets crisp again.
Sound familiar to anyone? Any fixes?
Thanks!
Elizabeth
Hi
Please rephrase. I'm not smart enough to get it.
If I do a SlideShow in iMovie HD 6 - Then I don't Use the Share to iDVD function from
within iMovie. To me it's been harmfull in two ways
• Resulting DVD is severely pixelated
• Original in iMovie get's it's photos harmed = needs to be re-imported and re-built
I do when done in iMovie. Close it [cmd-Q]
Open iDVD and import the movie project.
This will force iDVD to do the rendering and so much better.
Else I use FotoMagico to do Slide Shows (incl in Roxio Toast™ 10 pro bundle)
Yours Bengt W
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• At first I thought the DVR image was better than the iDVD image, but reconsidered that later. Each had its own positive qualities. There was little difference. Each was slightly better in some respects than the other, worse in others. It was basically a wash. Both had about the same amount of jaggies, sometimes in different places.
• Another interesting result was that all the clips — from all four sources — played basically the same on the camera and on the two DVDs. There was very little difference among the four import methods. (I expected more difference.)
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• When the test was over, I watched a DVD slideshow of the same images I had burned a few weeks ago containing three iMovie widescreen formats: DV Widescreen, 720p, and 1080i. It was a close call, but I think they were all slightly better than the DV slideshow. Some images, especially, were better.
CONCLUSIONS
If you want the best playback quality possible, use the camcorder to play the slideshow on the TV, not a DVD.
To avoid the jaggies, it may be necessary to avoid certain photos. It's hard to tell which those are until you play the DVD on a TV. Plan to burn a DVD, then purge the images that acquire bad jaggies and burn it again.
Softening the TV picture can help. My TV offers a tremendous range of sharpness, a feature common to new TVs.
• My guess is that until we can burn Hi-Def DVDs, our huger and huger TVs are going to make the problem of DVD quality worser and worser. My slideshows would probably all look great on yesterday's "huge" 20" TV.
• I don't have DVD Studio Pro to test. Perhaps someone can compare that too?
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