Integrating video and still images...

I would like to images approximately 1.1 Mb in size in the movie I am putting
together with MM. I noted that the images, which originally were very sharp,
are hopelessly out of focus when imported into MM. What is the solution?

Thanks,

Chris

The photos apprear blurry in MovieMaker because when we preview the timeline
we do it at a resolution of 320x240 for various performance reasons. This
resolution is probably much lower than the original resolution of your
original image. When you publish your movie at a higher quality setting for
example we will use the full resolution of 720x480 for NTSC (or 720x576 for
PAL) so your end movie should look much better than the preview.
Regards
Dean Rowe
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.

"Bruin" <Bruin@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I would like to images approximately 1.1 Mb in size in the movie I am
>putting
> together with MM. I noted that the images, which originally were very
> sharp,
> are hopelessly out of focus when imported into MM. What is the solution?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Chris

Translation:

Video is lower resolution than digital pictures. The preview is even lower
resolution than the finished video from MM2.


Two things you can do:

1.) prep your images ahead of time for the size video you want to output -
crop/resize them in Photoshop or some other picture app to 640x480 or
whatever your output size so you can see how they look and possibly try
different crops to make the subject larger in the frame giving it more
detail.

2. See the PapaJohn.org website if you plan to use the video for PC playback
only or to project it from a PC - he has some tips on higher resolution
profiles for people who are not making regular video destined for a TV.




"Dean Rowe [MS]" <deanro@online.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:umcuod1qEHA.2776@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> The photos apprear blurry in MovieMaker because when we preview the
> timeline we do it at a resolution of 320x240 for various performance
> reasons. This resolution is probably much lower than the original
> resolution of your original image. When you publish your movie at a higher
> quality setting for example we will use the full resolution of 720x480
> for NTSC (or 720x576 for PAL) so your end movie should look much better
> than the preview.
> Regards
> Dean Rowe
> This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no
> rights.
>
> "Bruin" <Bruin@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:79A9D6DE-BE38-4001-B789-BC07B85CF1F1@microsoft.com...
>>I would like to images approximately 1.1 Mb in size in the movie I am
>>putting
>> together with MM. I noted that the images, which originally were very
>> sharp,
>> are hopelessly out of focus when imported into MM. What is the solution?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Chris
>
>

Thank you for both of your quick responses. Since making my post, I found
several relevant threads concerning aspect ratios and resizing stills.
However, I may have arrived at better solution for my particular situation,
and am interested in your feedback.

On a given holiday weekend or vacation, I shoot about 45 minutes of DV and
100-150 still shots. I am interested in combining both in manner that can be
displayed on a computer, on a TV screen, burned to a single CD or DVD, and
supports narration. I've been playing around with PowerPoint for the last
hour, and other than some jerkiness in one of the huge video files I imported
to test the idea, it seems to work OK. Thoughts?

Chris

"print_maker" wrote:

> Translation:
>
> Video is lower resolution than digital pictures. The preview is even lower
> resolution than the finished video from MM2.
>
>
> Two things you can do:
>
> 1.) prep your images ahead of time for the size video you want to output -
> crop/resize them in Photoshop or some other picture app to 640x480 or
> whatever your output size so you can see how they look and possibly try
> different crops to make the subject larger in the frame giving it more
> detail.
>
> 2. See the PapaJohn.org website if you plan to use the video for PC playback
> only or to project it from a PC - he has some tips on higher resolution
> profiles for people who are not making regular video destined for a TV.
>
>
>
>
> "Dean Rowe [MS]" <deanro@online.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:umcuod1qEHA.2776@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> > The photos apprear blurry in MovieMaker because when we preview the
> > timeline we do it at a resolution of 320x240 for various performance
> > reasons. This resolution is probably much lower than the original
> > resolution of your original image. When you publish your movie at a higher
> > quality setting for example we will use the full resolution of 720x480
> > for NTSC (or 720x576 for PAL) so your end movie should look much better
> > than the preview.
> > Regards
> > Dean Rowe
> > This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no
> > rights.
> >
> > "Bruin" <Bruin@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> > news:79A9D6DE-BE38-4001-B789-BC07B85CF1F1@microsoft.com...
> >>I would like to images approximately 1.1 Mb in size in the movie I am
> >>putting
> >> together with MM. I noted that the images, which originally were very
> >> sharp,
> >> are hopelessly out of focus when imported into MM. What is the solution?
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >>
> >> Chris
> >
> >
>
>
>

When I got married (a few years ago now) I put together a photo slide show
using PowerPoint and played it back using a projector and a laptop at the
reception and it worked really well. I see that there are solutions out
there to convert a PowerPoint slideshow to a DVD but I've never tried them.
The other option you could consider is to use PhotoStory and MovieMaker
together.

Here's the link for PhotoStory -
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/plus/dme/photo.asp

In fact my wife and I recently did this for a friend's wedding. She sent us
a whole bunch of photos along with a bit of video. We scanned all the photos
of her and the groom and then organized them into different groups. We then
ran Photo Story for each group to create multiple WMV files from Photo
Story.

We then took those WMV files, imported them into MovieMaker, organized them
along with the video we had, added some background music, a few titles here
and then and ended up with a pretty good video. We got many compliments from
the folks at the wedding. MovieMaker also has a built in narration feature
so you should be covered there.

Cheers
Dean Rowe
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.

"Bruin" <Bruin@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:8EB65696-1B70-4BFB-8413-0BD3FDD16F8A@microsoft.com...
> Thank you for both of your quick responses. Since making my post, I found
> several relevant threads concerning aspect ratios and resizing stills.
> However, I may have arrived at better solution for my particular
> situation,
> and am interested in your feedback.
>
> On a given holiday weekend or vacation, I shoot about 45 minutes of DV and
> 100-150 still shots. I am interested in combining both in manner that can
> be
> displayed on a computer, on a TV screen, burned to a single CD or DVD, and
> supports narration. I've been playing around with PowerPoint for the last
> hour, and other than some jerkiness in one of the huge video files I
> imported
> to test the idea, it seems to work OK. Thoughts?
>
> Chris
>
> "print_maker" wrote:
>
>> Translation:
>>
>> Video is lower resolution than digital pictures. The preview is even
>> lower
>> resolution than the finished video from MM2.
>>
>>
>> Two things you can do:
>>
>> 1.) prep your images ahead of time for the size video you want to
>> output -
>> crop/resize them in Photoshop or some other picture app to 640x480 or
>> whatever your output size so you can see how they look and possibly try
>> different crops to make the subject larger in the frame giving it more
>> detail.
>>
>> 2. See the PapaJohn.org website if you plan to use the video for PC
>> playback
>> only or to project it from a PC - he has some tips on higher resolution
>> profiles for people who are not making regular video destined for a TV.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> "Dean Rowe [MS]" <deanro@online.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:umcuod1qEHA.2776@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
>> > The photos apprear blurry in MovieMaker because when we preview the
>> > timeline we do it at a resolution of 320x240 for various performance
>> > reasons. This resolution is probably much lower than the original
>> > resolution of your original image. When you publish your movie at a
>> > higher
>> > quality setting for example we will use the full resolution of 720x480
>> > for NTSC (or 720x576 for PAL) so your end movie should look much better
>> > than the preview.
>> > Regards
>> > Dean Rowe
>> > This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no
>> > rights.
>> >
>> > "Bruin" <Bruin@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> > news:79A9D6DE-BE38-4001-B789-BC07B85CF1F1@microsoft.com...
>> >>I would like to images approximately 1.1 Mb in size in the movie I am
>> >>putting
>> >> together with MM. I noted that the images, which originally were very
>> >> sharp,
>> >> are hopelessly out of focus when imported into MM. What is the
>> >> solution?
>> >>
>> >> Thanks,
>> >>
>> >> Chris
>> >
>> >
>>
>>
>>

Or you can use my Pan Zoom effects right within Movie Maker
www.rehanfx.org/panzoom.htm

For a comparison you can try the Pixelan package for the same thing but they
dont allow any free usage.

--
Rehan
www.rehanfx.org - get more effects and transitions for movie maker





"Dean Rowe [MS]" <deanro@online.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:ei8GWR2qEHA.1152@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> When I got married (a few years ago now) I put together a photo slide show
> using PowerPoint and played it back using a projector and a laptop at the
> reception and it worked really well. I see that there are solutions out
> there to convert a PowerPoint slideshow to a DVD but I've never tried
> them. The other option you could consider is to use PhotoStory and
> MovieMaker together.
>
> Here's the link for PhotoStory -
> http://www.microsoft.com/windows/plus/dme/photo.asp
>
> In fact my wife and I recently did this for a friend's wedding. She sent
> us a whole bunch of photos along with a bit of video. We scanned all the
> photos of her and the groom and then organized them into different groups.
> We then ran Photo Story for each group to create multiple WMV files from
> Photo Story.
>
> We then took those WMV files, imported them into MovieMaker, organized
> them along with the video we had, added some background music, a few
> titles here and then and ended up with a pretty good video. We got many
> compliments from the folks at the wedding. MovieMaker also has a built in
> narration feature so you should be covered there.
>
> Cheers
> Dean Rowe
> This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no
> rights.
>
> "Bruin" <Bruin@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:8EB65696-1B70-4BFB-8413-0BD3FDD16F8A@microsoft.com...
>> Thank you for both of your quick responses. Since making my post, I
>> found
>> several relevant threads concerning aspect ratios and resizing stills.
>> However, I may have arrived at better solution for my particular
>> situation,
>> and am interested in your feedback.
>>
>> On a given holiday weekend or vacation, I shoot about 45 minutes of DV
>> and
>> 100-150 still shots. I am interested in combining both in manner that
>> can be
>> displayed on a computer, on a TV screen, burned to a single CD or DVD,
>> and
>> supports narration. I've been playing around with PowerPoint for the
>> last
>> hour, and other than some jerkiness in one of the huge video files I
>> imported
>> to test the idea, it seems to work OK. Thoughts?
>>
>> Chris
>>
>> "print_maker" wrote:
>>
>>> Translation:
>>>
>>> Video is lower resolution than digital pictures. The preview is even
>>> lower
>>> resolution than the finished video from MM2.
>>>
>>>
>>> Two things you can do:
>>>
>>> 1.) prep your images ahead of time for the size video you want to
>>> output -
>>> crop/resize them in Photoshop or some other picture app to 640x480 or
>>> whatever your output size so you can see how they look and possibly try
>>> different crops to make the subject larger in the frame giving it more
>>> detail.
>>>
>>> 2. See the PapaJohn.org website if you plan to use the video for PC
>>> playback
>>> only or to project it from a PC - he has some tips on higher resolution
>>> profiles for people who are not making regular video destined for a TV.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> "Dean Rowe [MS]" <deanro@online.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>>> news:umcuod1qEHA.2776@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
>>> > The photos apprear blurry in MovieMaker because when we preview the
>>> > timeline we do it at a resolution of 320x240 for various performance
>>> > reasons. This resolution is probably much lower than the original
>>> > resolution of your original image. When you publish your movie at a
>>> > higher
>>> > quality setting for example we will use the full resolution of 720x480
>>> > for NTSC (or 720x576 for PAL) so your end movie should look much
>>> > better
>>> > than the preview.
>>> > Regards
>>> > Dean Rowe
>>> > This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no
>>> > rights.
>>> >
>>> > "Bruin" <Bruin@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>>> > news:79A9D6DE-BE38-4001-B789-BC07B85CF1F1@microsoft.com...
>>> >>I would like to images approximately 1.1 Mb in size in the movie I am
>>> >>putting
>>> >> together with MM. I noted that the images, which originally were
>>> >> very
>>> >> sharp,
>>> >> are hopelessly out of focus when imported into MM. What is the
>>> >> solution?
>>> >>
>>> >> Thanks,
>>> >>
>>> >> Chris
>>> >
>>> >
>>>
>>>
>>>
>
>

Hello there,

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them and aftwards you can run for your piece of plastic I have every one of
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particulae the Particle effects....damm clever stuff.

There is a link to Pixelan on my web site or you can click this
http://www.pixelan.com/ I guarantee you will be impressed

--
Best Wishes.....John Kelly
www.the-kellys.org
www.the-kellys.co.uk
Just glad I don't live in Croydon, UK
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