jpeg images to dvd

[416 marathon]

I am new to this arena. I have a large number of vacation pictures in jpeg format. I would like to be able to play images on my tv through a dvd. Is it possible?

Help!!!

[KingJohn]

Hi

A lot of the top programs that work with video can take a lot of time to set up and use.

A good program that is very simple to use,but gives excellent results is "Animation Shop 3" this comes with Paint Shop Pro

You can make a new frame the size of a VCD PAL or NTSC then load your photos and paste them into that frame. Or you can simply resize them adding a border if they are small.

You can also add fade out, scroll and a lot more. When you have finished save them as "AVI" and convert them with TMPGEnc to VCD.mpg (Add some music at the same time)

If you make small movies out of each picture you can join them all together with Vdub, and save one large AVI before converting.

Its a simple program to use but gives very good effects, and as its working in animated pictures its not editing large AVI files.

Give it a try http://www.jasc.com/ free trial

[acattanach]

Any Chance of mailing me details (settings etc)?
I'm using Paintshop (anime) and Nero or WINonCD.

acattanach@hotmail.com

[KingJohn]

Hi Again

Well the program is easy to use. File > New
Enter the frame size to be the same as your VCD this could be 352x288 for PAL

You now have 1 frame, from the menu you can import pictures and paste, or you can edit them in PSP and Copy and paste over.
Add some effects, duplicate the frame... and more

If you have a picture smaller than 352x288 (PAL) then it would not look nice if you made it bigger, you can resize the Canvas in PSP so the picture is in the middle, or have a nice backdrop.

Shrinking down a picture is better quality, you can use the crop in PSP. to get the proportion right...

Anyway, if you have created 1 frame you can now load one of your pictures and select copy, then paste into that frame (Move it around for size)

You can now make as many copies of that frame you want, or just make it a 2 frame then use the effects to changed from one to another.

A typical movie might be 15 seconds of the same picture (Copy Paste 15 times) then "Page curl" into the next picture. Save it as an AVI Do some more fancy things with the next picture, under the settings on image transition there is "Number of frames per second" so you could even match that to your frame rate (25 for PAL)

When you have all your AVI's saved join them all with VDUB and have look at the whole sequence and time it, any single part can be re-edited, finally save it as one movie and convert to Mpeg with TMPGEnc adding a wave file at the same time

Email me 2 of your pictures, Ill make up a DiVx with them to show the effect...

[vitualis]

If you put photos on a VCD, there is an issue of aspect ratio that people normally forget/don't know about. There is an article here on what this is about and how to fix it: http://www.vcdhelp.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?topic=38352&forum=1

Regards.

[mem_user]

Goto http://www.oaktech.com and get that program. It does cost about $50, but does a great jogf. It is made just for pictures. It puts them in the correct proportion and creates a thumbnail images for a menu and then burns them to cd.

[willieg101]

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On 2001-09-13 21:02:53, mem_user wrote:
Goto www.oaktech.com and get that program. It does cost about $50, but does a great jogf. It is made just for pictures. It puts them in the correct proportion and creates a thumbnail images for a menu and then burns them to cd.
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Will it play on standalone DVD players? Also, can you add background music to it?

Thanks,
Willie!

[KingJohn]

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On 2001-09-13 20:09:45, vitualis wrote:
If you put photos on a VCD, there is an issue of aspect ratio that people normally forget/don't know about. There is an article here on what this is about and how to fix it: http://www.vcdhelp.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?topic=38352&forum=1

Regards.

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Well the proof of these things are when you make a VCD and it does not look/work correctly. If there is anything wrong a person would investigate, and perhaps discover the answer.

I have transferred hundreds of pictures onto VCD with music, some are transforming from one to another, most are simply displayed for a few seconds. ALL of them look just fine, there is no stretching or any abnormalities. I don't pretend for one minuet I have anything special as far as the DVD player or TV. Going buy what you have said all my picture should be stretched, They are not stretched at all. They display perfect (As perfect as the original digitized jpeg) the quality is never going to by anything like a Kodak disk, but hey they are good enough.

One other thing, a frame is a frame whether its a still picture from a jpeg or taken out of a movie, so why do the movies not look stretched also ?

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[vitualis]

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That should be absolutely obvious.

When doing a DVD rip, you are preserving the original aspect ratio. That is, if you create PAL video clip on the PC and play it at 100% (not full screen), the aspect ratio is actually WRONG (people are too skinny). This is corrected when viewed on the TV or played full screen (DAR 4:3).

Think about it. PAL is 352x288 (not 4:3) while the DAR (display aspect ratio) for the video is 4:3. That means, the PAL video (NTSC video too) does not use square pixels.

The method I wrote about before simple corrects for this phenomenon. Whether you notice it or not depends on your eyes and on your TV.

Regards.

[KingJohn]

Quite easy to resolve if the original jpeg is set to compensate for this. How ever the difference is so small its worth the effort. And I would have thought there was some proportional increase in the conversion anyway.

[vitualis]

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On 2001-09-17 09:38:17, letmeinforgodsake wrote:
Quite easy to resolve if the original jpeg is set to compensate for this. How ever the difference is so small its worth the effort. And I would have thought there was some proportional increase in the conversion anyway.
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Well, I don't think that the difference is small. I can tell straight off that something "looks wrong". This, however, is perceptual and not everybody sees things the same way. Maybe your brain can tolerate larger differences in aspect ratio but mine can't. If you read the original thread, it is obvious that a lot of people can't either.

Regards.