Photos/Slideshow bad quality in Premiere Elements 2.0

[PeterMoe]

Putting a slideshow together in Adobe Premiere Elements 2.0.

There are about 30 photos of people or groups of people. The photos are from difference sources, some are high quality JPGs from cameras, some are compressed JPG's we received via email, some are prints scanned into JPG's.

The quality of the photographs is generally worse than the original JPG, some are a lot worse and are very grainy. Especially the scanned photographs look much worse in the video than the original JPG.

Have tried resizing the photos in Photoshop Elements 5.0 to 720/576 but that did not help, rather made it worse.

Our transition is the "rotating cube" under 3D transations, so the photographs will move and not just be static.

Have read in the reviews section here about PE 2.0 - the reviewer found that photos often render in bad quality - is this a general problem?

[guns1inger]

If your photos are lower than standard DV resolution to begin with then you are never going to get good quality out of them, regardless of the package used.

[PeterMoe]

If your photos are lower than standard DV resolution to begin with then you are never going to get good quality out of them, regardless of the package used.

I know.

Maybe I did not make that clear, but many of the originals are like 2000x1200 pixel.

I do not expect the quality of the photos to improve when I insert them in the video, but the quality is a lot worse. As pointed out above a photo that looks perfect on the screen looks very grainy in the video.

[guns1inger]

I haven't used Premiere in years, but often these 3D spinning effects have very poor anti-aliasing and mapping in order to reduce processing time. This means you get very poor transformation of images, and a lot stepping around the high contrast points and edges in the image. You also need to make sure you have motion blur turned on.

A couple of screen shots of the finished video would also help, just to get a better idea of the actual problem - a picture being worth a thousand words etc. . .

[PeterMoe]

I haven't used Premiere in years, but often these 3D spinning effects have very poor anti-aliasing and mapping in order to reduce processing time. This means you get very poor transformation of images, and a lot stepping around the high contrast points and edges in the image. You also need to make sure you have motion blur turned on.

A couple of screen shots of the finished video would also help, just to get a better idea of the actual problem - a picture being worth a thousand words etc. . .

It's actually not spinning all the time, the picture is static between transitions for a couple seconds. See your point with putting a clip on the Internet, but it's too complicated to get 50 people to agree their photos being publicly available on the Internet.

I'll see if I can find the time to create a short sample from my photos and put that up on my server... I'll be back...

In the meantime - any other comments/suggestions are welcome!