Photo slideshow-increase pic view time

doin wrote on 10/28/2004, 11:26 AM
I am trying to create a slideshow. I have read that png is the best format for Vegas and that is what they are in. When I put them into the timeline, how do I increase all of the photos viewtime at once - they seem to default to 5 seconds each. I assume I highlight them all but where do I go to increase the time?

Thanks

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Chienworks wrote on 10/28/2004, 11:36 AM
Options / Preferences / Editing. You can set a new default time for the pictures. You can also set up an automatic overlap for transitions.
doin wrote on 10/28/2004, 11:40 AM
Thanks!
doin wrote on 10/28/2004, 12:31 PM
Okay now I inserted all the .png files into the timeline and they are so dark. They are from retouched tiff's from a digital camera done in Photoshop. When I used the .png files in ProShow slide maker they were exposed fine.

Is there another setting I need to use to make these photos appear like the correctly exposed pictures they are. Even when rendered to mpeg2 they were dark.

I hope I don't need to go back to the original tiff's - I converted them all because the orginal file size was too large - I didn't want the rendered DVD mpeg2 file to be massive.
goshep wrote on 10/28/2004, 12:35 PM
I've always used .jpg without problems. Is there a sigificant difference in quality, Chien?
doin wrote on 10/28/2004, 12:37 PM
I don't know first time trying it - someting to do with .png and gamma work better in vegas.
Chienworks wrote on 10/28/2004, 1:23 PM
Well, i can't imagine there should be any noticeable difference in brightness no matter which format is used. Have you tried putting one of the TIFF files on the timeline to see what it looks like?

And don't worry about the size thing. Vegas will compress the MPEG video stream to whatever bitrate you specify no matter what was on the timeline to begin with. If you specify 6000Kbps then you'll get 6000Kbps whether you use 10KB PNG files or 50MB TIFF files. The only penalty you'd pay for using TIFFs is that Vegas will probably handle them slower because there's so much more data to move around and read from the hard drive.
doin wrote on 10/28/2004, 2:39 PM
I've put the exact two photos side-by-side on the timeline and the difference is very noticable. That's interesting about the tiff's though, if it doesn't make any difference to the output size as that is based on the encoder specs I choose, I will just use them instead.

Thnaks for the help!