Vegas Vs Photoshop Elements (Album)

MohammeD T wrote on 9/6/2006, 4:57 AM

I have been Scanning and Organizing family Photos for about a month, now i am deciding wich way to go, i want to make some Album slide shows with music and some transitions, i have Photoshop Elements4 and Vegas6 on my PC, which SFT do you recommend for such work? are there any diffences going one way or the other? Most of the Photos are taken with the Sony H5 (7MP) and i would love to keep as much picture Quality as possible.

Thanks Guys



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farss wrote on 9/6/2006, 5:04 AM
What do you want to play your slide shows on?

If a DVD player then the biggest limitation quality wise is the resolution of the TV system.
If you only want to play then on a computer then with Vegas you can edit in HD and render to WMV HD or other HD codecs that'll play on a PC.
MohammeD T wrote on 9/6/2006, 5:45 AM
Hi farss, i would like them to play best on a 61 inch Wide screen HDTV.

thanks for your help
farss wrote on 9/6/2006, 5:50 AM
Well as at the moment you could go one of two ways, use a HTPC or one of the other HD players to drive it. SD DVDs are not going to look very flash at 61 inch.

Is that TV good for true 1080 or just 720, I suspect the later.
In which case I'd be doing it in Vegas and encoding as 720p, probably WMV HD will be the easiest.

Bob.
MohammeD T wrote on 9/6/2006, 5:59 AM
The TV specs are:

Sony KS-WS60:

WEGA Engine
Memory Stick Slot
WXGA Panel (1386x788)
HD Ready (1080i/720P/576P/480P)

I would love to get the best out of it, even if its not good enough for 1080, maybe creating in that relosution is future proof?
JohnnyRoy wrote on 9/6/2006, 7:28 AM
I think it’s pretty clear that Photoshop Elements is not going to output HD (in fact I might be a VCD) so Vegas is the way to go. Definitely encode to 1080p so that when you buy a new HD TV you will have the best resolution. There is no sense in limiting it to 720p just because our current HD TV is that resolution. As you said, “future proof”.

~jr
MohammeD T wrote on 9/6/2006, 7:34 AM
Thanks Johnny, so all i have to do is set my project to HD 1080-50i(1920x1080, 25,000fps) and thats it?

JohnnyRoy wrote on 9/6/2006, 7:44 AM
AND you have to render to HD (of course). But yes, I always keep my project properties the same as my rendering properties so there are no surprises. Like you said, use the HD 1920x1080 setting, and not the HDV 1440x1080 settings so that the Pixel Aspect Ratio is 1.000 (HD) instead of 1.3333 (HDV) because your images have a PAR of 1.0.

~jr