resolution to run photo story 3 project on television

[Guest]

Reposting this question: I am using Photo Story 3 to put together a DVD of
black and white photographs
that will be displayed on television. The results so far are unsatisfactory -
blotchy photos, fragmentation on the television. It looks fine on the
computer, but not the tv. Here are my questions:
- I have scanned these photos at 300 dpi and save at jpeg 90 percent. Should
I scan at higher dpi? Should I skip the jpeg and go to tiff or png?
- Should I skip photo story 3 and use a program meant for dvd production. I
am now saving the file and importing it into windows movie maker, and then
producing the dvd with MYDVD which readers movie maker files. (it will not
directly work with the new version of photo story).
- Finally, in reading the web site www.papajohn.org, I see there is a
reference to saving photos as interlaced versus non-interlaced for use on the
television. The workaround is complicated and I would rather use a program
that automatically takes care of everything. One problem with photo story 3,
which I otherwise like a lot, is that it is not meant for dvd or svcd
production. (It even eliminated the vcd function that was in the earlier
version).

 

[Graham Hughes]

I would start again and save your scanned images as tiff or another
uncompressed format. There is no point scanning at such a high resolution
and then using a compressed format and using it at a higher compression.
There are quite a few programmes which can make part of a dvd, PS3 makes teh
slideshow and then you use an authoring app to make the dvd. I do this with
Adobe premiere which costs £000's and doesn't have an integrated dvd burning
facility.
Yes, you can buy all in ones, but it's still apying money, maybe have a look
at Proshow gold if you wnat a slideshow app to burn dvd's.