Poor quality of jpegs in WMM

[Guest]

I place a jpeg with good resolution in a movie (for a slide show).

But when I preview and when the movie is finished the jpeg is soft, blurry,
poor resolution.

Anyone else have this problem?

Any solution?

Thanks,
amp

 

[print_maker]

Your photo is probably 4 Megapixels or more.
The native resolution of video is 640x40 = less than one megapixel, so you
lose quality no matter what you do.

MM previews at lower resolution than it publishes at, but your publish is
still going to look lower res than your photo.

 

[Guest]

Thanks p_m, good info. Very helpful.
-amp

Your photo is probably 4 Megapixels or more.
The native resolution of video is 640x40 = less than one megapixel, so you
lose quality no matter what you do.

MM previews at lower resolution than it publishes at, but your publish is
still going to look lower res than your photo.

 

[John Inzer]

I place a jpeg with good resolution in a movie (for a
slide show).

But when I preview and when the movie is finished the
jpeg is soft, blurry, poor resolution.

Anyone else have this problem?

Any solution?

Thanks,
amp

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Here's some info...

Go to the following site:
http://www.papajohn.org/

Navigate to:
Saving Movies / Custom WMV Profiles.

--

John Inzer
MS Picture It! MVP

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[Wojo]

If your project is only still images and audio I recommend using Microsoft
Photo Story 3
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/digitalphotography/photostory/default.mspx
It is much more suited to the task with far better control of transitions
and the resulting WMV tends to be better quality since the program is meant
to work with still images and WMM is designed for videos.
-Wojo