Blurry pictures and texts on the storyboard and avi file

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I imported my pictures to the collection pane. When I look at them using the
viewer, they look sharp and no blurriness.
However, when I drag the pictures to storyboard and play the video, they are
blurry.
I also created dv-avi file, and the quality of pictures are as bad as the
ones that I saw on storyboard.

Could someone explain how I can fix this problem?
The size of pictures are 720x540 and 640x480.
I saved the pictures with BMP.

Thank you,
 
Amy said:
I imported my pictures to the collection pane. When I look at them
using the viewer, they look sharp and no blurriness.
However, when I drag the pictures to storyboard and play the video,
they are blurry.
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This is expected because the files are played
in a lower resolution from the timeline/storyboard.
This does not affect the saved files.
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I also created dv-avi file, and the quality of pictures are as bad as
the ones that I saw on storyboard.

Could someone explain how I can fix this problem?
The size of pictures are 720x540 and 640x480.
I saved the pictures with BMP.

Thank you,
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If those are the original sizes of your pictures,
you have a low resolution camera or you don't
have it on the best setting. This may be why
your movie is not what you expected. Using
higher resolution images may be worth a try.

Maybe your answer would be to save as
..wmv and use a custom profile. have a look
at the following articles:

Movie Maker 2 - Saving
Movies - Custom WMV Profiles
http://tinyurl.com/s2vgu

Creating Custom Profiles
for Windows Movie Maker 2
http://tinyurl.com/cuny7

--

John Inzer
MS Picture It! -
Digital Image MVP

Digital Image
Highlights and FAQs
http://tinyurl.com/aczzp

Notice
This is not tech support
I am a volunteer

Solutions that work for
me may not work for you

Proceed at your own risk
 
Hi John,

Thank you for your quick response.

My original pictures' resoution is high (It is close to 2000).
I resized them because I have to create DVD (for TV screen, NTSC).

I read other threads regarding the low quality of still images in DV-AVI
format.
I need to create DVD; that is why I am choosing DV-AVI format.
I need to insert both video and stil images to create DVD, so photostory
does not seem to work.

Is there any better way to create DVD without losing the quality of pictures?

Thank you for your help,
 
John,

I think I was wrong about resolution.
The original picture's size is 2137x1592, but horizontal and vertical
resolution are 300.
Do you think this is the reason that the picutures are blurry?
 
Amy said:
John,

I think I was wrong about resolution.
The original picture's size is 2137x1592, but horizontal and vertical
resolution are 300.
Do you think this is the reason that the picutures are blurry?
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Yes, PhotoStory is only for still images.

FWIW...if your free standing DVD player
has the JPEG option you can burn your
images directly on a Data Disk and it
should play them as a slideshow.

Personally, I would not resize the image
files...Movie Maker will do that for you.
Some pre-cropping may be required to
achieve the correct aspect ratio. IOW...
4:3 or 16:9 Wide Screen.

When saving the completed project as
a movie, I would save in the .wmv format
and use a custom profile.

The following articles should help explain:

Movie Maker 2 - Saving
Movies - Custom WMV Profiles
http://tinyurl.com/s2vgu

Creating Custom Profiles
for Windows Movie Maker 2
http://tinyurl.com/cuny7

--

John Inzer
MS Picture It! -
Digital Image MVP

Digital Image
Highlights and FAQs
http://tinyurl.com/aczzp

Notice
This is not tech support
I am a volunteer

Solutions that work for
me may not work for you

Proceed at your own risk
 
Amy,

2137x1572 is the resolution of the original pictures in pixels. A pixel is
the smallest quantity of image detail, the more you have of them the more
detail is in the image. Conversely, the fewer the pixels the lower the
resolution of the image. That 300 figure might be the DPI (dots per inch),
which is not the same as image resolution. Image DPI can be changed without
affecting the picture resolution. It means different things on printers
versus scanners or monitors.

If you did resize the images to 300x300 before adding them to WMM then most
of the image detail was thrown away at that point. What was left would
indeed be quite blurry when the size is fudged back up to 720x480 by WMM.

If you actually resized the original images to 640x480 or 720x540 they
should still look good on a TV screen, or on your monitor if they are viewed
in their actual size not full screen or shrunken. Even after being processed
into a movie by WMM. Any time you change the resolution(dimensions) of an
image it does cause some degree of softening of the image details so usually
you need to apply a bit of sharpening in your image editor (or video editor)
to get back the crispness of the original picture.
 
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