Panning/Zooming Still Photos

lg777 wrote on 3/19/2005, 9:58 PM

I use slideshow software like Proshow Gold and Memories on TV for stills using jpeg from a high quality camera. No problem with motion effects.

I recently tried this using Movie Studio 4 and boy what a difference. The photos come out very glittery and when I apply panning or zooming, the motion is very 'glittery'. I can't describe it any other way except that I get a lot of moire, details in the picture coming in and out (glitter).

Anybody know what I'm doing wrong?

Comments

Elmo27376 wrote on 3/20/2005, 6:10 AM

This is a strange problem. I had the same experience with two still pictures on the timeline. The strange thing is I had used the same two pictures in the same project earlier on the timeline and later on the timeline with no problem. What I'm saying is the problem only occured in the one place on the timeline. I deleted the problem clips from the timeline a couple of times and reapplied them with the same result. That's wierd.

jtfrazer wrote on 3/22/2005, 3:53 PM

I have also seen this. In my case it has been present with every still photo on which I did a zoom. Panning without zooming seems OK.

Based on the original poster's comments, I downloaded the trial version of the ProShow Gold package and did some zooms on the same stills I had used in a Movie Studio video. The "glittering" effect was not present in the ProShow Gold video. I did notice that the ProShow stills were a little fuzzy when compared to the same ones on MS.

Jim

mccudden wrote on 3/22/2005, 4:25 PM

I have seen good results when I do several things:
1. start with as large a pic as possible
2. encode with NO fast video resize
3. encode with the best video params (need to go into the custom video render settings - progressive scan, "best" video rendering quality)

The differences between this and the default settings are very noticeable. I, too, saw the "twinkle" effect on my "astronmy picture of the day" montage. When I cranked up the settings, the results were much improved. Note that the render times went up significantly. Ah well, still waiting for that 3GHz machine...

James

lg777 wrote on 4/13/2005, 9:46 AM

Thanks for the reply's...I have tried just about every setting in this app...someone mentioned that I could turn the interlace off for each picture but he was using Vegas and not his studio version. I use 6MP picture files and have played with all the settings that were mentioned.

I'm just going to have to "hack" video and slideshows together using two programs until I find a solution. I'm going to try adobe premiere elements to see how it will work there as well.

Gopher2005 wrote on 5/9/2005, 6:11 PM

I'm new to VMS also...

Is it possible to get full screen, high resolution photos ... like those of my 6MB files ... as a final product? All I can seem to get is the smaller avi or mpg files that are far inferior to the original photos. I don't care if the slideshow is 4GB, that's what DVDs are for...

Thanks.

gogiants wrote on 5/9/2005, 8:50 PM

You'll always be limited by the screen resolution of your target, which tends to be a TV if you're making movies. Tweaking of output settings might show some improvement, but it won't morph your DVDs into high-def discs.

If you want super-high-res slide shows, then you won't be targeting TVs, and you'll likely want to use different software.

stilltrying wrote on 5/10/2005, 6:01 AM

What software would you need, gogiants, for high-res slide shows. I am wanting to scan 35mm slides to make a slideshow to burn on DVD????? These would be played back on TV.

gogiants wrote on 5/10/2005, 12:32 PM

If you're going to show things on a standard-def TV via DVD, you will always wind up at 740x480. (More or less... you can go wide-screen, but it's pretty much the same resolution, just laid out differently.) If it's a high-def TV then you'd have to use something besides DVD because the DVD standard does not include high-def.

Make sense? If you want higher resolutions then you'd have to deliver them on a computer screen.

That said, there are ways to influence the visual quality of a 740X480 image. These include some of the things listed here: higher bit-rate MPEG2 rendering, techniques when panning/zooming, the resolution of your original image, etc.

My point was simply that what shows up on the TV will always be different, sometimes very different, than what you see on a multi-megapixel image on your computer.

As for scanning your 35mm slides, you'll want to scan into as high-res an image as your patience and disk space will allow. Also, consider scanning into a less lossy format such as PNG or TIFF instead of JPEG or GIF. You'll be happy you did so when you want to zoom in on parts of the image, and you'll also be happy years from now when high-def will be easier to do with the emerging DVD-replacement standards.