Re: digital photos no longer in focus

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From: PapaJohn \(MVP\) (PapaJohn_at_CharterMI.net)
Date: 05/29/04 

Date: Sat, 29 May 2004 00:18:16 -0400

Hi Karen,

A 6 megapixel camera is taking pictures that measure about 2800x2200 pixels.
Adobe and image editing software uses all the pixels.

But high quality DVDs and computer videos are typically 640x480 pixels...
only about 1/3 of a megapixel. So one thing is understanding the different
quality levels between the picture environment and video.

And the preview mode of Movie Maker is using 320x240.... about 1/12 of a
megapixel.... but it's just a preview, not the final size of the saved
movie.

If your goal is a slide-show, consider using PhotoStory instead of Movie
Maker 2, or use them together.... how to do it depends on what you want to
do in your project. A couple pages on my websites to check are the
PhotoStory with MM2 page of my PhotoStory site, and the Saving Movies >
Custom WMV Profiles page of my MM2 site.

The right approach to take depends on who your audience is and how you will
deliver the videos to them.... playback on a computer can be of considerably
higher quality than playing a disc on a TV in a DVD player. 

-- 
PapaJohn
Movie Maker 2 - www.papajohn.org
Photo Story 2 - www.photostory.papajohn.org
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"Karen" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:14C9985B-7D53-4CB6-98CB-5B0BFD1A550F@microsoft.com...
> Hi Bob,
> Thank you thank you for replying......I haven't even saved anything yet. I
am just working on dragging in the photos from files. They look great in the
preview pane but pretty bad at full screen.  So what should I do?  I have
downloaded the "Put me in Coach" song...too cute...so tell me again what you
want me to do.
> Karen

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