slide show quality on TV

[jdilecce]

I have created a cusom slide show and burned it on a cd. The quality when viewed on aTV by using a DVD player is poor. I have adjusted to WVM quality to high however the quality is still poor when viewed on TV. When viewed on the computer screen the quality is fine. The photos are shot witha 5 megapixal camera set at fine. :(

[MikeH]

This is a failry common complaint and is to do with VCD's in general not PE3 or the quality of your pictures.

VCDs use MPEG compression which will not give the same quality as DVD. A very, very good VCD is about the same quality as a VHS video. But with most VCD's the picture quality will be inferior to video. SVCD & CVD give better results but you can't do that in PE3.

If you view slide shows on a PC I recommend that you save it as a wmv file and play in Windows Media Player

Mike

[Jodi Frye]

doesn't VCD stand for ..
' Very Crappy Display ?'

at least VHS stood for
Very Harmonious Sight ....when they first came out

geeze, i do remember when VHS players first came out. Only the well-ta-do could afford one !

Hopefully VCD format will dwindle off into the grey horizon .....it's 2005 !! Time for progress !!!

[MikeH]

Jodi,

:lol: :lol:

Unfortunately I also remember VHS in it's early days - the first VCR I managed to afford was twice the size of my PC tower case, had piano type keys and the "remote" had a cable. And I thought it was so cool...

I agree with you about VCD fading away, although I'm not sure it ever got off the ground...

Mike

[Jodi Frye]

One more question

Please enlighten' me

Are there DVD burners that will burn in formats that are the same as the DVD movies we buy in stores ? I suppose this would have to do with software and burning formats ? Please forgive the idiot question but I do plan on buying a DVD burner at some point and this is something I would really want it to do...so that all dvd players would accept it.

[MikeH]

Jodi,

I wish I could help you on this... as a dvd burner is also on my shopping list!

Mike