How should photos be scaled to avoid blurriness?

JayLJohnston wrote on 8/19/2010, 1:18 PM

Hi Everyone,
I'm putting together a video of my vacation that's made up of some video files as well as some photographs. I plan on burning both bluray and dvd discs of this when complete. Whenever I put my photos in the slideshow, the preview is very very blurry. Is there a specific resolution that photos should be in so that they come out clear on screen? Thanks!

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musicvid10 wrote on 8/19/2010, 2:51 PM

What are your photo sizes?
What are your project dimensions?
If 2) is larger than 1), your photos will blur on the timeline and in the render.

Markk655 wrote on 8/19/2010, 7:49 PM

"preview is very very blurry. "

Never judge the preview. Also, check the preview quality settings.

Also, what type of screen are you referring to - TV or computer monitor?

jetdv wrote on 8/20/2010, 10:35 AM

If you are zooming in, zoom in with Pan/Crop - NOT Track Motion. Pan/Crop uses the full resolution of the image will Track Motion uses the video resolution.

Render (and preview) using BEST

Birk Binnard wrote on 8/20/2010, 11:12 AM

I do the same thing (combine stills with video) and Vegas handles everything perfectly. As previously noted, the preview screen is definitely NOT reflective of the final rendered video Vegas produces. So do not use this as anything but an overall view of what the final output will be.

Also, as previously noted, feel free to use pan/zoom to get the best from your still images. There is a lot more detail in most still images than there is in even HD video, so zooming in or moozing out is seldom a problem.

Consider this: full HD video is 1920x1080 = a little over 2M pixels. A typical digital camera image with the same aspect ratio will have something around 10M -12M pixels. So that's a lot of extra detail you can go after with pan/zoom if you want.

JayLJohnston wrote on 8/20/2010, 1:01 PM

Thanks for the replies everyone. I've been just noticing it in the preview wondow on my computer, so maybe I'll try rendering one. I'm taking photos with a 12MP camera in full resolution, and the video is coming in as 1080i from a Canon HF-S21. I wasn't planning on cropping the photos, just showing them. Again, thank you. I'm just learning this product and it's nice to have a place to go to ask questions. I have many more!! Have a nice weekend everyone!

musicvid10 wrote on 8/20/2010, 2:01 PM

Once again, what are your Project Properties?

Sykes wrote on 8/21/2010, 11:44 AM

If you don't care about transitions or effects, the best way to add photos is in DVD-Architect, your pictures will look the same and without any blurriness. All you have to do is go to: Insert "Picture Compilation", drag and drop your photos within, there is also an option to add audio to the slides. The best thing about it is you don't even have to re-size or crop the originals and the photos look razor-sharp no matter what the output.

I tried adding photos in Vegas and no matter what I do, the quality came out like sh!t.

JayLJohnston wrote on 8/31/2010, 10:10 AM

Sorry, I'm resurrecting this because I think I came to a conclusion here and wanted to run it by you all. In Picasa, I can export to a certain number of pixels. When I exported the images to 1920 pixels, the image seems MUCH clearer as my project is set up as 1920x1080. Is this a recommended approach? I plan on adding more photos but want to make sure that I'm doing it the best way. Adding them through DVD Architect won't add them to my timeline I think, so I wanted to create everything inside VMS.