Best Way to insert JPEG images into VideoStudio

[leonbrn]

Hope this is the right forum for. I'm a aspiring newbie to this video stuff.

I have ULEADS VideoStudio 7 and would like to produce a DVD to include movie clips from my Camcorder (Cannon Optura) along with JPEG images captured with a NIKON 990. Capturing the clips from the Camcorder into VS7 was easy. The problem I am having is getting good looking images from the NIKON into the project. The images were captured at a resolution around 1600 X 1280. When inserted into VS7 they are either to large if I set the option to leave image at original size or the image quality is poor or distorted I set the option to "Keep Aspect Proportional" or "Fit To Project" respectively.

How can I go about getting these images into VS7 and maintain the quality?

[andruxa]

Newbie reply here, will give it a shot anyhow:

Having limited knowlegde of graphics, I would first transfer them to computer, open up photoshop or similar and resize the image at anything higher than 72 dpi (make sure when you transfer them to comp from camera you choose 150-300dpi resolution), then resize them to 640x480 but maintain the resolution of 150-300 dpi). This way they will be small, yet sharp and clear.

2cents...

[andkiich]

I'd use a tool like Photoshop to bring the resolution of the images down to DVD full D1 resolutions(either 704x480 or 740x480) and see if that doesn't help maintain the quality a bit. I have Videostudio 6, but have not used it for what you are trying to do, but I'd wager that Videostudio doesn't handle JPEG's as gracefully as a dedicated imaging program like Photoshop would.

Again, I've not done anything like that before and I may be talking out of my posterior, but it's something to try.