Bob said:
The photos look awful when I make a story. They are real blurry.
I have used JPG & BMP but they still look bad????
Initially, I found this too, but later discovered that the photos looked
blurry only when I had output them using the preset profile for DVD. If
I created the same story for viewing on the screen, the photos looked
pin sharp. It had to be something to do with the rendering. Try some of
the other pre-defined rendering profiles and see if that helps.
It took a while before I discovered that it's possible to edit the
profiles that come with Photo Story 3. You should find them in a folder
within the installation folder for the application. Unfortunately, they
have weird names that do not reflect what they actually do. You will
have to investigate them by trial and error. The way to do this is to
double-click on a profile so that it loads up into the profile editor.
I managed to make a quantam improvement to the look of DVD format files
by changeing the key frame interval to 1 second from the default value
which was much higher. I think that that was what was making the
pictures look blurred during panning and zooming.
Looks like Microsoft screwed up big time in the DVD settings profile
that ships with the application.
For those who are interested, I then render an mpeg2 file from the .wmv
file that is output bt Photo Story 3 using TMPGEnc and burn that to a
DVD using either Nero or Ulead VideoStudio.
Raymond
