Slide Show Woes: Please Help

tuskenraid wrote on 8/5/2004, 12:16 PM
I am trying to put together a very basic still image slide show with background music for a DVD project for a client. Once the images are scanned in and enhanced in Photoshop, I crop them to 720 x 534 and save them as BMP.

When I go into Vegas 5 and place the images in the timeline with a default transition everything looks good. When I render it to a Windows AVI file and view it in Media Player, it looks terrible. Jaggy/jumpy video is there constantly.

What am I doing wrong? Should the images be a different size, format? What are the optimal render settings for an AVI file (I do not have the MPEG-2 plugin yet)? I just need a clean video file. I can then use a different program for DVD encoding and burning. Please help. I'm running out of time for this project.

Thanks,

Aaron

Comments

JL wrote on 8/5/2004, 12:29 PM
Rather than resize the images in PS you might want to import full size images in Vegas and use pan/crop in Vegas as needed. Also, I've had good results saving scanned images in .PNG format for export to Vegas.

JL

JaysonHolovacs wrote on 8/5/2004, 12:35 PM
If you are rendering to AVI, your AVI codec is important. Using uncompressed should result in a lossless render, but will produce a huge output file. The DV codec is very good, and is much smaller, so most of us here use that for AVI(at least, it is my understanding that this is the primary format in use here). If somehow you have a high-compression codec, it might produce weird video effects. Or perhaps it has something to do with your interlacing settings?

-Jayson
rs170a wrote on 8/5/2004, 12:46 PM
I'd follow JL's suggestions with respect to the PNG format and using pan/crop if desired.
The only time I resize is if the originals are extremely large (3000 X 2000, as an example). If they're in the area of 1600 x 1200, let Vegas handle the resizing for you. This also gives you some room if you want to zoom in or do pans.
Use the "Aspect Ratio" script to correctly size all your images.
Don't trust Media Player to give you an accurate representation of your finished video. If you have a DV camcorder, do a print to tape and view it on your TV set.
As far as a render format, stick with the NTSC DV avi template.

Mike