Still images blurry in slideshow

still images blurry in slideshow
What resolution and if I need to do anythig with digitalstill images files?

Use an image editing program like Photoshop to resize the images to the correct resolution
and pixel aspect ratio (PAR) of your DVD before importing them into PPro. PPro does not resize images very well.
You will also find links to many
free tutorials in the PremiereProPedia that will quickly show you how things are done in Premiere Pro.
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Still images blurry

I'm trying to use still images in FCP5. But when I export the video with the stills in place, they become blurry.
It's a widescreen project and I've created images that are 853x480.
What should I do?

Choose Quicktime conversion...
This is the likely cause. QuickTime Conversion always recompresses your file, even if you use the same codec as your Timeline.
Do this instead: File > Export > QuickTime Movie > Current Settings.
Whether Self Contained or Reference is up to you.

Why are my still images Blurry when applying effects?

I am creating a slideshow video using images with up to 18mp. The images look wonderful clear and sharp until I try and add video effects to the slide, like zooming in or panning.
I am a user of both CS5.5 at work and newly acquired CS6 for home. I like what I have been able to do, however this makes me very frustrated when everything looks good except for the images with effects. Should I be applying effects differently? or what?
Thanks,
G

>Didn't mean to start an argument
= Little Devil with a Grin !!!
Stick around for awhile... there is OFTEN a good deal of "healthy discussion" (ie-disagreement) that goes on here
That discussion brings out a LOT of different experiences (you say X doesn't work... but it works just fine for "me") that sometimes, maybe even often, leads to increased and/or new knowledge for everyone
Other times, you just need to realize that what works for "me" may, or may not, work for "you" exactly the same way based on your work flow
Read what everyone offers, try what you can... and make LOTS of notes so, over time, you will develop work practices that work best for you
Personal example...
Many people export out of PPro as MPEG2-DVD to then use Encore to author a DVD
My PERSONAL work flow is to export my AVCHD edits to Widescreen DV AVI to give to Encore... so I may use Encore's Automatic Transcoding setting to make a "best" fit of video length to size (single or dual layer) of DVD
This is because I just don't care to get into all the details of figuring out the PPro settings when exporting... I let Encore do all the math for me
That process works just fine for me... other people want to figure out their own math for the PPro export settings
I say what I do, and why, but I certainly do not TELL anyone else that they MUST do it my way

Still images in iMovie for slideshow problems

I am bringing in 72dpi jpegs of some of my design work into iMovie. I am trying to make a slideshow and have the images change by using the music as a cue, new sound—new image, etc... I then want to export it as quicktime movie.
When I am in iMovie and I drag a clip(still image) into the time line the image looks dull and blurry, but when I go to media>show photo settings, it all the sudden looks great. Once I click out of there it goes back to looking like crap.
Any ideas? Do i just need a diff program for doing this?

I am bringing in 72dpi jpegs of some of my design work into iMovie
The dpi setting is of NO importance in iMovie/iDVD - only the actual image pixel size. See Preparing images for DVD slideshows at http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=iDVD/6.0/en/17.html for suggested sizes unless you plan on using a lot of Ken Burns Effect zooming.
When I am in iMovie and I drag a clip(still image) into the time line the image looks dull and blurry
The preview window in iMovie is just that - a preview window - for use in editing. It does NOT show the actual image quality of the clip.
Some of us like Photo to Movie or FotoMagico for turning still images into slideshow movies - both offer free trial modes - you might want to give one of them a try.
F Shippey

Need basic "How To" for encoding still images for SD DVD slideshow

I recently purchased FCS2 and am not very computer savvy. I'm trying to create slideshows in DVD Studio Pro that are standard definition (so they can be played in most players), but are still excellent quality. The images I'm using are high resolution, professionally edited photos (with Adobe CS3 Elements). Once I burn it to a disk the image quality is very poor and after some trouble shooting I think I found my problem, the files are being resized automatically to fit with DVDSP and are losing quality. Can someone give me the quick "how to" with compressor to change my images to the correct settings? I've been reading and watching tutorials, but they all seem to focus more on video than still images. Any help is greatly appreciated.

When the final DVD plays on a computer or TV screen, the photo images in the titles are fuzzy even though they were clear 300 dpi images. (I know dpi doesn't matter in video). The title text is also a bit fuzzy and the title text that has animation applied to it is even more fuzzy. Yet the old MPEG video clips look fine - it's just my title graphics and text that look bad (embarrasing).
Remember that DVD-Video was designed for CRT TV sets, and was a major step up from VHS tape. However, when viewed on an HD computer monitor, or HD TV *, it is still ONLY 720 x 480, with is about 1/4 of the resolution as 1920 x 1080, which is about what we are used to seeing on those display devices. That is but only 25% of the quality. It can never look as good as HD material.
Good luck, and if I missed something, please point that out to me.
Hunt
* With the advent of BD players, and up-rezzing DVD players, things HAVE improved, when viewing a DVD-Video on an HD TV. The newer players have up-rezzing chips, that do a very good job of "improving" the viewed material's quality. However, even with those amazing chips, DVD-Video will NEVER be as good as a full-HD source. Also, computers do not have those up-rezzing chips, so when one views a DVD-Video on a high-rez computer monitor, it will still look pretty bad. There ARE a couple of new DVD software players, that improve the quality of DVD-Video played on a high-rez computer monitor, and a few look fairly promising. I speculate that we will see some more development in the DVD-Video area, especially as BD is not proving to be the big seller, that many promised. Even 3D is not helping BD realize its promise.

Still images are blurry when dropped into Canvas

HI, I am running Final Cut 7. When I drop still images into onto the Timeline, when I click on that image to appear in the Canvas they are blurry. However, when I put on the Alpha+RGB they are as sharp as they normally are - except they are red. How do I change this so they are sharp in the RGB channel?
Thanks for your help

Thanks. Like I said, I have downsized this still image to 720 x 576 at 72 ppi and it goes to crap.
I just changed the setting to HD 1280 x 720. Import the 720 x 576 at 72 ppi ... looks good but needs to be rendered .. render and it goes to crap. Everything that is imported needs to be rendered - then it all goes to crap. OR video looks good as a still frame and when rendered it goes to crap as it isn't HD but I thought it would be the quality of what it normally is just in an HD environment.
Thinking Final Cut X will solve these issues as it doesn't have these format problems like 7 does.

Can I insert video files among still images within a basic CS6 Slideshow?

I'm using CS6 13.0.4 x64. I want to create a very basic slideshow that includes both still images and video clips. I have read this is possible but can find no specifics. Thanks!

Thanks for both of your replies. I'll tackle Premiere Pro in 2013 but for now the limited PSCS6 video capabilities are more than adequate for my current project. Thanks to Adobe for including video editing capability in CS6. The answer to my question seems obvious now that I grasp how simple, intuitive and automatic the video editing features are. I'm used to more complicated workflows! In additon to these forums and your responses I accessed a nice multi-part video tutorial on using the CS6 video editing functions at kelbytraining.com.

Still Images Are Blurry

Hi All,
I will start with saying that, I saw quit a lot of discussions on the net with the same issue. However couldnt find the solution for it.
The Issue:
I am trying to create a stop-motion video using Adobe Premiere Pro CS6.
I am importing a bunch of still photos into my project.
When I drag&drop any image into the sequence it looks very blurry relatively to the original photo.
The same result after rendering and exporting the sequence.
Additional settings:
I also set to automatically fit the photo(s) to the sequence settings (Default scale to frame size).
Raw Meterial:
4288X2848 JPG.
I tried to resize the photos before importing but I get the same results
The target sequence:
720X576
60 FPS
I tried other sequence setting with no much luck.
My questions:
What am I doing wrong?
Why I see the video/images blurry?
Thanks for your time and effort.
Sample of "What I See".
Pay attention that the right side is blurry, that is the video preview pane. On the left is the original photo preview.

Steven L. Gotz wrote:
First of all, I stopped watching the video when it says a second has 60 milliseconds. That is not true. And it is not relevant.
I can't tell if you live in Israel or were vacationing there. They do use PAL there, but I think you should probably forget about using PAL.
Here is my suggestion. Use your 4288X2848 image to create your sequence. Limit yourself to 24 frames per second and you will have a lot less work to do.
I think you are being tricked into seeing something the wrong way. When I open one of my images in the Source Monitor, it is usually set to "Fit". Change it to 100%.
When I have one of my images in the Program monitor, it is usually set to "Fit". Change it to 100%. Try this out. Pick a picture with something nice and sharp in the exact center of the image. Compare both monitors.
Here is a shot of my screen doing that. There is a file size limit here on the forums so you are only seeing a small part of both monitors. I don't see any blurring. Do you?
Edit: You are probably going to have to cut the frame size down to export it - for now. Just cut each number in half after upping the quality and setting the frames per second back to 24.. One of these days you may end up going back and exporting again - when Premiere Pro catches up and lets you export H.264 at that size.
Hi,
Well...
I wrote in my previous post that I tried creating a sequence from my photo and I got the same blurry results.
I used PAL because that is the tutorial I found.
Would appreciate if any can say what are the settings I need in order to create a "slide show" movie.
I don't mind resizing the images, 4288 x 2848 is too large anyhow, it is just the default output from my camera.
I don't think I am "tricked" into seeing something that is not true. As I wrote, I get the same results after exporting the sequence and creating the clip video.
Another anoing point is that I already did something similar in the past and it worked perfectly. not sure what is going wrong now =[
Thanks for your time and efforts.

Slideshow with video files and still images ?

Hi everybody,
As from the title I would like to know if in Captivate 7 (or 8) there is a widget for playing several videos within a sort of slideshow.
Any advise about to sort the problem will be highly consdired.
Best regards

Hi Rick,
tx a lot for your kind advise.
Following your advise I have just created a Slideshow project and inserted still images in it. One per slide.
But I did not get what to do now... Would you please help me going on trying your solution?
(I think it is helpful to specify that I would like to have a slideshow for videos, as an object within one slide, not along several slides)
tx.

Creating a slideshow: need to fit still images in video track to audio

Hello,
I am creating a simple slideshow in FCP. I have 99 still images, all sequential, with a transition in my video track. I have two audio songs in sequence in my audio track. The obvious problem is that my audio is much shorter than my 99 images.
Of course, the next task is fitting the video to the audio. But with 99 still images, I do not want to edit each individually. I need to be able to select all images, and fit them all to the audio, so that the duration of each still image is shortened equally, i.e. a symmetrical compression of the duration of each.
I haven't figured out quite how to do this. I thought the ripple tool would work, but I haven't been able to make it work on all image clips. Can someone help me out and let me know how this is done? I suspect it's quite easy, I just can't seem to find any documentation on this either in the FCP user's guide or via Google.
Thanks in advance.
Brad

I should have also mentioned, that I get the FCP
"beep" or "bonk" whatever the sound is, when I try to
change the duration and it won't change. I can't
figure it.
Brad,
Okay, this has happended to me before. It's user error, but right now for the life of me I can't remember what was wrong and what I did to fix it.
Try this...highlight only one clip and try just one clip. Will that clip change duration?
If it does it may be a problem in highlighting "all" of the clips. Give me a minute or two and I might remember what I did to fix the problem when I had it. Most likely when it happened to me I ...1. played with it...2. cussed....3. played with it some more....4. cusses....5. got a diet coke and forgot about it for awhile...6. somehow fixed it.
You can always try the original suggestion. There's always more than one way to skin a cat. Sometimes, I go the long way just to get there. The short cut doesn't do you any good if the road is closed so to speak.
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FCE 4 for slideshows with still images only

I recently put together a slideshow in FCE 4 from my still photographs. The show looks great when I run the original file. But the DVD I created looks awful. Is there a special way to size the still images for better quality. I sized them the way we do at camera club for our digital projector (1024 X 768, resolution 100).
Thanks.
Barb

Unfortunately, Tom, the slideshow capabilities in iPhoto are not sophisticated enough. I need to be able to "choreograph" the images with a musical selection. I like the marker features in FCE so I can easily time out the musical selection and place the transitions where I need them before I even import my images. I also like the ability to play with the audio, for example, trimming and fading out a piece of music that may be a tad long; or starting a selection of music after a title slide has been on the screen. I kind of need the type of editing one does with film but using still images. If only Apple would combine some of the features of Final Cut Express with a program like iPhoto that handles the still image resolution. Any possibility of that happening?

Broad Question - Horizontal Scrolling Slideshow with Still Images

Hi everyone,
I have to make a horizontal scrolling slideshow using many images of different filetypes, sizes and DPI in Premiere Pro CS5.5. I have tried a few different methods but each has its own problems:
1. Arrange still images horizontally in the timeline, adjacent to eachother, and apply a custom Push video transition between each one. This is a consistent method that doesnt require much work but it's tough to control the amount of whitespace between the images, especially when the images are all different proportions.
2. Arrange still images both horizontally and vertically in the timeline, so that there is no white space between the images (the images overlap across multiple video lanes). Then, set up motion fx for the position of the image for each clip. This is tedious and I have to make every clip the same size and make sure the distance each clip travels (in the motion fx) is the same. So for instance, I have to set the starting key to 1200 on the x-axis, and the ending key to -300, for every single image (tedious when there are many). Another problem with this is that it becomes very difficult to change the duration of the motion fx once ive set it up for many.
3. To have an easier time composing the arrangement of images, I just make a single giant image by laying out dozens of photos in InDesign, then export a very wide jpeg. The great thing about this is it's fast, easy, and the composition is exactly how i want it. The bad thing is that premiere doesn't handle many megapixel images well, and furthermore the image quality is horrific compared to the quality of importing individual images.
The biggest problem with all of these is the image quality (extremely poor compared to viewing the source images on their own) and the animation smoothness (all three methods produce very jittery and erratic videos). The biggest question I have is: should I even be doing a slideshow in Premiere? Can someone recommend a better application I should be using for something like this? Do i have to learn Flash? I am not trying to make an interactive thing, just a video/animation where I hit play and dozens of images scroll horizontally, at the same speed, with a lot of control over the scaling of the images and their horizontal and vertical arrangement (the amount of whitespace between them).
Thanks for everyone's time and help!

Don't know if it is still being sold, but Grass Valley's Imaginate was the perfect application for your intended purpose. There are many others as well, but PR is not the program of choice for this.

Still image becomes blurry when played in iMovie 10.0.7

I am attempting to use still images in an iMovie 10.0.7 presentation. I have defeated the Ken Burns effect. The clear image drops out of focus when I press play and pops back into focus when the clip ends. Is there a fix for this?
Thanks.

That's a feature, lowering qualiyt while editing; on final export you'll notice a much better quality ....

Blurry still images

having trouble importing a clear still image into projects. Im working in DV PAL format Frame size 720 x 576 (1.067) The problem is my stills are in JPEG 3072 x 2304 and 250 dpi so when i convert them to fit project frame size they become blury!! One thing i have noticed is when image is in preview window and i left click on it , it becomes clear ? Any ideas how i can achieve a clear pic in my movies? Thanks

Do you have your program monitor set to "draft quality"?
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Still Image looks blurry when zoomed

Hello, I am using FCP 5 and I noticed that when I zoom in on a picture, even if it's resolution is much larger than 720 x 480, the picture seems blurry. I tried de-interlacing, however it still remains blurry. In the viewer it seems fine, however once I put it into the Timeline to be viewed in the Canvas, it looses it's clarity when zoomed. Any suggestions?

Mark,
Is the project you are working with one that was originally created in an older version of FCP (like 4.5) then upgraded to 5? If so, you might want to try changing your render setting from normal to linear. If that does not do the trick, I would recommend setting up an external monitor. Judge by that- not the canvas.

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