Ulead Video Studio 7

[dvbuff]

I've read in a couple of topics that you can produce a high quality slide show using Ulead Video Studio 7. However, I can't seem to produce this. Everytime I create a slideshow, the pictures appear in low quality in the TV. Any ideas?

[Bstansbury]

DVbuff,

It all depends on your still image size and quality. If your images are low quality jpg then when they are "Blow up to full TV size" they will look bad.

If your taking Digital Still, take them at 1200x800 resolution, or as high as you can get them.

What is your source information?

[dvbuff]

Hi,

My source is from a Canon A60 camera. The image looks great when I use Sonic MyDvd. Maybe there are configuration options in Ulead?

[Specialist]

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 with very nice quality.

I hope these steps work for you.

Thanks,

Jerry Jones
http://www.jonesgroup.net

I've read in a couple of topics that you can produce a high quality slide show using Ulead Video Studio 7. However, I can't seem to produce this. Everytime I create a slideshow, the pictures appear in low quality in the TV. Any ideas?

[dvbuff]

Hi Specialist,

Thanks for your advise. I am now able to create a better quality DVD slideshow using Ulead.

[Specialist]

Happy to help!

Jerry Jones
http://www.jonesgroup.net

Hi Specialist,

Thanks for your advise. I am now able to create a better quality DVD slideshow using Ulead.

[raceman3]

What do you recommend setting the project properties to if you have both digital photos & video in the same project

[Bstansbury]

Hello "Specialist", alas "Jerry Jones" from Ulead'sWeb site. Hi Jerry. Glad to see you adding post to this web site. Your comments will get much wider distribution and a much larger audiance from this web site.

"Raceman3",... as for your question,... I use Ulead VS 7.0 and mostly with Digital Video and my default project properties are set for DV from my Sony DV camcroder. To add digital photos to the project, (by the way Jerry, I have the same Digtial camera,... Olympus D-490), I just go to EDIT mode and open "Images" instead of videos and this takes me to my windows directory where I select the folder that holds the .jpg images I want to use. I select them either one at a time or in groups and they are all loaded into the library as thumbnails. Once this is done I can view them and/or drag and drop them into the position I want them. Once there I can change the duration they are on the screen by clicking scene duration and changing the number of seconds. I then go to EFFECTs and add in a "Fade to Black" between each still shot. I also find my favorite music and add it to the background will the still photos are playing. The quality of the digital photos is terriffic. When the whole video is converted to DVD it looks great.

Hope this helps.

[raceman3]

What encoder settings do you use when you create the final avi or mpeg. I've been told you get better quality for stills using the encoder type 1 but video is typically type 2

[Bstansbury]

Raceman3,... Since 90% of each project I create is based on DV Video I have shot with my Sony camera, I leave the entire project at the base setting for video. I have not experimented with doing a DVD or SVCD using Digital Still only and trying Type 1. I have no comparison. However, I'm very pleased with the integration of still and video into a full DVD. The quality has been great.

Bud