SlideShows with Ulead VS 7.01

[pepegot1]

Ulead VS 7.01 makes good all video shows. The problem arises when a Slide show is mixed, video and still images. The quality of the video remains high, but the picture quality sucks. I reduce the 1600X1200 imgaes to 640X480, but still no improvement. I encode using Mainconcept Encoder or the VS 7 encoder-still no soap!
Is there something else I can do, other than not using VS 7.01?
When I use ProShow-the image quality is great-albeit they are just pure still images! I wish VS 7.01 could come close to it in appearance.

[racer-x]

I don't use Ulead VS7.

1) Make your images should be 720 x 540 before you import.
2) try a higher bitrate.
3) Encode directly from Timeline to Mpeg, never compile as AVI then encode to Mpeg. You can always frameserve to the Mainconcept encoder.

Hope that helps.

[Specialist]

I work with DV .avi files.

The following steps are the steps I take when working with digital camera photos from an Olympus D-490 camera in a Ulead VideoStudio 7.01 DV .avi editing project.

1. I open Ulead VideoStudio 7.01;

2. I click FILE > PROJECT PROPERTIES;

3. I adjust my project properties to have the following settings:

NTSC drop frame (29.97 fps)
Microsoft AVI files
24 Bits, 720 x 480, 29.97 fps
Field Order A
DV Video Encoder -- type 1
DV Audio -- NTSC, 48.000 kHz, 16 Bit, Stereo

4. I click the OPEN FOLDER icon in the lower left corner of the Ulead VideoStudio 7.01 interface and then I click the INSERT IMAGE option and then browse to the location of my digital camera photos, which are JPEG images - fresh from the camera - with the following resolution:

1600 x 1200 pixels

5. After locating and highlighting the photos, I click the OK button to import them into the timeline of Ulead VideoStudio 7.01;

6. I then click/highlight the timeline thumbnail of the imported JPEG image and I drag the right edge to the right so that the image's duration will last as long as I wish when I render the image out to become a video file;

7. I then click SHARE > CREATE VIDEO FILE > SAME AS PROJECT SETTINGS and I name the file I will be rendering out and I click SAVE so that VideoStudio will render out the image file as a video file - in DV .avi file format;

8. I now import the DV .avi file into my project and scrub along the top of the timeline with my mouse to send a video signal out through Firewire to my digital camcorder and out of the camcorder's analog outputs to the analog inputs of my external TV set;

9. I observe that the photo appears on my external TV monitor without any flickering - it looks nice.

Jerry Jones
http://www.jonesgroup.net

Ulead VS 7.01 makes good all video shows. The problem arises when a Slide show is mixed, video and still images. The quality of the video remains high, but the picture quality sucks. I reduce the 1600X1200 imgaes to 640X480, but still no improvement. I encode using Mainconcept Encoder or the VS 7 encoder-still no soap!
Is there something else I can do, other than not using VS 7.01?
When I use ProShow-the image quality is great-albeit they are just pure still images! I wish VS 7.01 could come close to it in appearance.