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Simbad
09-18-2003, 07:34 PM
I am using Memories On TV to put my digital pics in a slide show format to be burned on a VCD/SVCD and played on my living room DVD player.

I dont have any problem with creating the show and burning it and it plays on my DVD.

The problem lies in the fact that the pictures themselves are of high quality 1600 X 1200. When I look at them on my pc or on tv they are as crisp as can be. But... when I turn them in a slide show which is in MPEG or MPEG2 format, they then appear with grain and quite blur.

Do you have any suggestions? What might be the cause? Is there a better program which gives more "pro" results?

Thanks for any help.
Stuart Elflett
09-18-2003, 08:43 PM
The compression inherent to Mpeg is the issue with the image quality... and of course, that they're scaled down to a size for tv display when put into the slide show...

Download the trial version of Proshow from www.photodex.com, and try that... It writes all sorts of formats...

Cheers,
Stuart
MarkY
09-18-2003, 08:49 PM
A TV will never display a photograph with the quality of a monitor.
Stuart Elflett
09-18-2003, 09:19 PM
Isn't 640 X 480 about the same as TV resolution?

Cheers,
Stuart
Ted
09-18-2003, 11:29 PM
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Simbad
09-19-2003, 01:07 PM
The compression inherent to Mpeg is the issue with the image quality... and of course, that they're scaled down to a size for tv display when put into the slide show...

Download the trial version of Proshow from www.photodex.com, and try that... It writes all sorts of formats...

Cheers,
Stuart

Excellent! Now my slide show looks good. Excellent product.

Thanks!
ap.
09-19-2003, 04:17 PM
It probably had to do with the compression scheme used. Think of MPEG as JPEG with motion. For each new frame the only parts that get redrawn are those areas on screen that change from the last frame. That plus some motion prediction and such. Basiclly, your program probably compressed thinking it would be animated (about 30 images per second), so to keep the data rate down it compressed the hell out of them. What you want, and the new software seems to have done, is a compression scheme suitable for graphics and still screen menus.