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Chienworks wrote on 1/4/2003, 9:12 PM
Vegas will accept Windows Bitmap (.bmp) images. These can be full resolution 24 bit color. That might help.

What are you taking from powerpoint? Can you create your slides directly in Vegas instead?
VideoDentist wrote on 1/4/2003, 9:17 PM

I could create my slides from Vegas but the slides are already put together in PowerPoint and the 2002 version allows me to turn the slides into JPEGS, GIFS TIFS PFD images but when I render them and view them in MyDVDit they look blurred. What can I do to translate them as crisp as they are in Powerpoint to my final DVD?
Chienworks wrote on 1/4/2003, 9:20 PM
One of the problems you may be facing is screen resolution. Your PowerPoint slide images are probably full screen, whatever your screen resolution is set for (perhaps 1024x768?). When rendering to MPEG for DVD, the resolution will only be 720x480. This, plus the MPEG compression, can cause blurriness. There isn't much you can do about this.
musicvid10 wrote on 1/4/2003, 10:28 PM
Best quality will be to save to TIF from Powerpoint, open in Photoshop or PSP, resize to your output resolution (720x480?), then resave as BMP. You will have some pretty large files, however.

If the slides don't fit the aspect, create a 720x480 canvas with a black background and paste the image onto it. That way you preserve the aspect with some letterboxing. As Chien said, their isn't anything you can do about the MPEG compression losses, except keep your data rate high.
VideoDentist wrote on 1/4/2003, 11:30 PM
Thanks
VideoDentist wrote on 1/4/2003, 11:30 PM
Thanks