Re: Slide show issues in VideoCD

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From: Rehan (someone_at_somewhere.com)
Date: 11/26/04

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    Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2004 08:07:48 -0000
    
    

    If you dont know papajohns website you are missing out big time...

    www.papajohn.org

    When the menu on the left loads, go to Saving Movies -> Custom WMV Profiles

    -- 
    Rehan
    www.rehanfx.org - get transitions and effects for Windows MovieMaker
    "Dave" <dgrund74@yahoo.com> wrote in message 
    news:fpwpd.102354$tU4.74396@okepread06...
    > What's Papajohn's site?
    >
    > "Rehan" <someone@somewhere.com> wrote in message 
    > news:ebrk3c00EHA.1204@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
    >> Your procedure is fine but I think you chose to re-encode when Nero said 
    >> the mpeg fileis not standard compliant. You need to ignore that and make 
    >> sure nero sues mpeg created by TMPGenc. This should produce decent 
    >> quality.
    >>
    >>
    >>> 1) Each image expands about 20 pixels off my TV screen.
    >>
    >> This is normal. Called TV overscan. For historic reasons the normal tv 
    >> display is expanded to hide 5% to 10% from all the sides.
    >>
    >>
    >>> 2) There's black flickering on the border of some images. The width of 
    >>> the border flicker is about 10 pixels.
    >>
    >> it is strange that this flickering is still visible. This is what the 
    >> overscan is supposed to hide.
    >>
    >>> 3) Each image is pixellated.
    >>
    >> If you use the procedure mentioned above then the picture resolution 
    >> should be decent but not great. To get good picture quality you need to 
    >> encode your slideshow with high bitrate and save as WMV of output size at 
    >> least 800x600 using the custom profiles provided by papajohn on his site.
    >>
    >> Note: DV AVI produces slightly blurry output from still pictures due to 
    >> non square pixel encoding.
    >>
    >>
    >> -- 
    >> Rehan
    >> www.rehanfx.org - get transitions and effects for Windows MovieMaker
    >>
    >>
    >>
    >> "Dave" <dgrund74@yahoo.com> wrote in message 
    >> news:piqpd.102332$tU4.86090@okepread06...
    >>>I used Windows Movie Maker to create a JPG slide show, to record onto 
    >>>VideoCD. The images are 640x480, 150ppi. The WMV file was then converted 
    >>>to MPG using TMPGEnc, and burned onto VideoCD using Nero. Here's the 
    >>>problem:
    >>>
    >>> 1) Each image expands about 20 pixels off my TV screen.
    >>> 2) There's black flickering on the border of some images. The width of 
    >>> the border flicker is about 10 pixels.
    >>> 3) Each image is pixellated.
    >>>
    >>> Of course, considering this sample was recorded onto VideoCD, Nero 
    >>> warned me that the quality would be downgraded. How do I fix the above 
    >>> problems? Do I need to adjust TMPGEnc settings, image size, or what?
    >>>
    >>> Any help is much appreciated. Thanks!
    >>>
    >>> -- 
    >>> - Dave
    >>> http://members.cox.net/grundage/
    >>>
    >>
    >>
    >
    > 
    

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