Picture Quality in Final Production

Kayakboy wrote on 2/13/2005, 5:43 AM

This is my first experience with Movie Studio, and so far so good. However, I took about a 15 minute project I've been working on and tried the Make a Movie button. In one case I made a dvd copy to my hardrive, and in the other burned a disc as Windows Media. In both cases when I played them back on my laptop, the digital picture quality was not as clear as the photos. It had that kind of digital fuzzyness to it. Like peoples faces were a little out of focus and kayak paddles that were straight became jagged.

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Comments

Former user wrote on 2/13/2005, 7:12 AM

Don't pass judgement on quality until you view the video on the media it is intended, your TV. A computer is not optimized for an interlaced video file.

Dave T2

gogiants wrote on 2/13/2005, 7:54 AM

Are you using pan/crop to zoom in on any of the pictures in question? This can certainly make a huge difference in quality. Also, if your pictures aren't the right size to match up with a video output screen then the pictures can become distorted. See the recent discussion here about "still pictures."

DaveT2 is right in that you'll want to view the movie on your final target (TV?) but the fact that the Windows Media file looks distorted as well makes me wonder if it might be something else.