Still Image Quality

[Slowburn]

What determines the quality of any still image added to a DVD?

No matter how good the originals are, they never show the same high quality look as seen in Photoshop.

Is there any way to improve the quality of these high quality images?

[Tommyknocker]

Is there a way to increase the bit rate or resolution of your Photo-DVD?

[TerryG]

What program are you using? All pictures will be 720x480, but some programs do a better job than others.

[racer-x]

Besides the bitrate and encoder settings, a great way to increase quality of a still image, is to encode the Mpeg in Progressive (Frame) format. That's how I encode all my slideshows and they looks as good as they did in Photoshop. Actually they look better because they are much bigger displayed on the TV. The best part, is if you hit the pause button, they look absolutely perfect. If it was encoded interlaced and you hit the pause button, the image would be distorted because of the field shift.

If you have Premiere, then read my guide here:
https://www.videohelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=192278

[Slowburn]

It's not a slideshow, guys. I have a few stills to insert within an .mpg file I am in the process of authoring. These are scanned photographs which I've tried scanning at different resolutions and sizes, but I'm not impressed with the results. I've also tried making my own theme backgrounds to use in TempGenc DVD Author, but the detail is lost once I see them onscreen. Plus, I'm not sure what size they should be.

I'm using an ATI AIW 9600Pro for video capture, Studio 8 (don't laugh) to edit and TempGenc DVD Author to do the menus and make folder to the hard drive. I then can burn with Roxio. I've had reasonable results with everything so far, but the still image thing is a situation I'd like to correct.

Any help is appreciated.

[racer-x]

If you are NTSC, save your images as 720 x 540 @ 100 dpi in bmp format for best results.

I don't use Studio 8, so I can't help with any settings. I believe there is a guide for Studio 8 in the guides section. Anyway, there should be no reason your images should look bad on video.