DVD still shots aren't sharp

[Kathryn M]

Help! I'm trying to create a DVD of my scrapbook pages I've made on PSE3. No problem bringing them into Premiere Elements 2.0 or arranging them or burning a CD. The problem is that they look awful when played on a TV. I created the original pages with high resolution, and I have a new Sony large screen TV that looks incredible when watching TV. The resolution is just basically gone when I burn DVD. I tried just using PSE3 and creating a VCD. That played in my DVD player and showed on the TV, but the quality there was even worse. Large title weren't even readable, and faces were just a blur. Is there any way I can create a disc of any sort to play in a DVD player to show PSE creations as sharp as they look on my computer screen???

[ATR]

I am learning, but here is a thought until others appear.

There are several articles on the Internet re: JPG Images for Television and DVD that you may want to check into.

I suspect that there may be a problem with Premiere Elements resizing your images for DVD. I have seen that, in some cases, images are resized in Photoshop, rather than letting the video editing program do the resizing as well as its other activities.

I will be watching to see how this all turns out.

ATR

[ATR]

When I read your post for a second time, some questions came up about what you are doing with your photos in Elements 3.0.

Are you preparing a slideshow as a wmv file and exporting it to Premiere Elements 2.0?
Or, are you editing jpeg photos in 3.0 and then exporting them to Premiere Elements 2.0, and hitting make a slideshow?
Or, other?

If you are sending over jpeg photos, have you considered sending the photos over to Premiere Elements 2.0 as .tif. If I understood correctly, I think that there is a compression factor with jpeg that does not always result in the best quality. Hopefully to be clarified by others in other posts here.

ATR