Digital picture quality on a VCD?????what is up!!!

[Mrichardson2001]

I have made a few VCDs using TMPGenc to encode and NERO to burn. When I use a scanned picture and quality looks pretty darn good, but when I use some digital pictures from my camera the quality does not come across very good when viewing them via my DVD player. The *.avi file looks great on the computer but stinks on the DVD.....any ideas on how to improve or why this is..????

[theslimpiknz]

im not sure if you encode your jpegs first? But if you do, remember to encode on the 4.3 setting in TMPGEnc , it sounds like youve been using the 1.1 VGA which is for your PC.......but im not sure need some more info

[Mrichardson2001]

I use VideoWave to make my video (I make videos of our vacations, etc..) VideoWave will make the "storyline" (movie) into an *.avi file, which I then encode using TMPGenc and then burn using NERO.......
What is this about encoding my jpegs???? Do I need to encode each picture before using them in VideoWave???

[Spicuzza]

Mrichardson2001,

I've had experience with exactly the issue you have encountered.

"When I use a scanned picture and quality looks pretty darn good, but when I use some digital pictures from my camera the quality does not come across very good"

When you scan a picture you control the quality, such as 150 dpi, 300 dpi,
600 dpi etc. You also control the file type, bitmap, jpeg, tif etc. A sharp photo taken with a quality 35 mm camera is and always will be better quality than a digital camera. When you take a photo with a digital camera you have immediately lost quaility as your picture is now made up of a mosaic of square pixels. Your digital photo has to be at least 150 dpi to be reasonably usable for making slide shows and or using some stills in a video project.

The projects we've done using digital photos from relatives have not had near the quality as the photos we scan ourselves. I'm sure you can probably increase the quality of the digital photos taken with your camera which in turn will increase the file size which will result in being able to take fewer pictures with said camera.

Well, I hope this has helped as this has been our experience also.

Gary Spicuzza
cic7@juno.com