PNG images look bad when rendered to MPEG 2...

Musha wrote on 4/12/2003, 4:34 PM
Created an image in Photoshop, saved as PNG, opened in separate video track in Vegas.
Rendered as MPeg 2... The whole project (several video and audio tracks) looks good except the video track compiled from several png images... Rendered as an uncompressed AVI, everything looks good.
Did I miss something or this does it always happen? Would a stand alone avi to mpg software help?

Comments

Nat wrote on 4/13/2003, 9:02 PM
You can try to set the render quality to best instead of good, it handles pictures better.

Nat
Cheno wrote on 4/13/2003, 9:22 PM
may also depend on the initial resolution of your png files. For most pics, 300dpi is pushing it without having to add a blur and clean them up in photoshop. Try scanning at 150dpi (depends also on whether or not you're doing much moving around in the photos..) but your photos can get too large and to "clean". I've however done many photos at 300dpi without a problem. Personally my $.02 is that png's are still the best format to work in. You may want to experiment with different resolutions though.

mike