slideshow

gcg wrote on 9/6/2016, 6:07 PM

I'm using Vegas 10.0.  Want to create a standard definition slideshow.  Only about 50 pictures.  Can you suggest to me what the size of each photo should be that I drop on the timeline.  I am talking about heighth and width in inches and the resolution.  I will go into to Photoshop and adjust pictures according to your recommendation.  Then I will render to the NTSC DVD Architect render setting and use DVD Achitect to create the DVD.  Thanks in advance for your help.

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NickHope wrote on 9/6/2016, 11:39 PM

You don't need to resize them. Vegas will do that when it renders. But you could resize them in advance if you wish, and if it's a standard definition NTSC DVD (for USA etc.) then 480 pixels high is correct (x 720 wide). Don't worry about the height and width in inches. That is irrelevant here. Just consider the overall number of pixels (resolution).

gcg wrote on 9/6/2016, 11:55 PM

Thanks for your suggestions.  My first attempt came out pretty poorly.  The pictures on the screen look pretty blurry with some pixelation. My first go around I did resize the pictures to to 720w x 480h with the default resolution of 72 in photoshop.  Looked pretty bad.  I know SD won't turn out real good, but this is not worth showing my family.

I'll try dropping them in as they were taken from the camera and let you know the results.

Thanks.

JJKizak wrote on 9/7/2016, 6:23 AM

I did a lot of zooming on mine and all of them were around 5 megs to begin with. If you scanned slides in use about 1200 DPI. Then when you are in Photoshop expand the view about 300 % to correct all the defects.

JJK

wwaag wrote on 9/7/2016, 9:53 AM

The problem is that you are trying to do your slideshow in SD.  Regardless of what you do do, it's going to look pretty terrible if displayed on a relatively new TV.  If you want them to look OK, just create an HD project--1920 x 1080 will be best, but even 1280 x 720 will look quite good.  There are lots of ways to easily show your HD program on today's TVs including inexpensive pocket-sized media players.  Save your program on a flash drive and you're ready to travel.

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BruceUSA wrote on 9/7/2016, 10:18 AM

I have done a lot slideshow with Vegas and this is how I did mine and it turned out great.  (1) start your project property with HD 1920x1080 Progressive scan and Deinterlacee method to none.  (2) import your stills into the timeline.  (3) pan/crop the photo, click on preset> drop down, choose 16.9 aspect ratio.  This will fill the Vegas preview screen to full. (4) Render the project to DVD Architec NTSC Video WideScreen video stream.  That is.  DVD play on HD TV via blu ray player look very good because of the up scaling from the blu ray player.

Here is the HD version I did not long ago.  to see in HD click HD.  

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gcg wrote on 9/7/2016, 10:43 AM

Wow.  Thank you everyone.  I guess I shouldn't expect too much from this SD project.  But the idea was to give out DVDs to the rest of the family from a reunion.  Most are getting up in age and although they may have a newer TV and a DVD or BluRay player that is the extent of their "multimedia" knowledge.

I will dive back in this evening and try these suggestions.  Thanks BruceUSA for the step by step.

 

john_dennis wrote on 9/7/2016, 1:12 PM

Since your slideshow is rather short, this would be a good time to create a DVD Extras folder and include an HD (or 4K when you upgrade Vegas) file for the more tech-savvy members of your family.

gcg wrote on 9/7/2016, 5:39 PM

Another quick question.  I am rendering in Vegas to NTSC Widescreen video stream.  Why is DVD Architect recompressing that video? The audio is in ac3 and is not getting re-rendered, but the video is.

Thanks.

BruceUSA wrote on 9/7/2016, 6:00 PM

Make sure you check the DVDA project property to match the settings you rendered in Vegas. If you did everything correctly.  DVDA should not be recompress.

 

Also to note.  Your video is a 16.9 ratio widescreen.  By default dvda always set at 4.3 aspect ratio. Make sure that is matching up..

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rs170a wrote on 9/7/2016, 6:11 PM

Another quick question.  I am rendering in Vegas to NTSC Widescreen video stream.  Why is DVD Architect recompressing that video? The audio is in ac3 and is not getting re-rendered, but the video is.

Thanks.

You should be using the DVD Architect NTSC Widescreen video stream template.
Another suggestion and that is to customize your template so that you're doing a constant bitrate (CBR) of 8,000,000. For anything under 70 min. long this is what I always do and my DVDs look great. Use a good name brand media and every9one will be very happy with the results.

Mike

Gary James wrote on 9/8/2016, 8:25 AM

If you find that you're frequently making SlidShows, you may want to take a look at the free Vegas Add-in Timeline Tools.  http://www.nfatoys.com/moasoftwarellc/Default.htm
 

Timeline Tools allows you to quickly arrange your Video Clips / Photos on the Vegas timeline to quickly produce a SlideShow.  This web page has some short training videos that show how easy it is to rapidly ceate a slideshow.  http://www.nfatoys.com/moasoftwarellc/tutorials.htm

gcg wrote on 9/12/2016, 2:17 AM

Thanks for all the suggestions.  I've finished the slide show and it is much better than my first tries.  I appreciate the help.