Poor quality burning DVD slideshow

[mane]

The pictures in the slideshow are not as clear and in my Organizer. Can anyone tell me what I am doing wrong?? I am using the creation to create a slideshow, saving it. Changing the output to DVD and then burning but the pics are not as clear as in my organizer and I can't figure it out. I have Elements 3.

[TonyW]

How are you burning a DVD? Elements will only burn VCD's and the quality of these is inherently not very good as the VCD format is very low resolution. To make a DVD quality slide show you need another program such as Premiere Elements.

Tony

[MikeH]

Just to add what Tony said, VCD gives you (at best) the same quality as a VHS video tape, but in many cases it is inferior.

This is PSEs weakest point in my view as programs such as Nero and Proshow produce better quality VCDs that PSE. I was very disappointed to see that PSE4 still features VCD as the only format.

However whatever program you use, VCD will never match the image quality of a DVD or you see on your monitor. If you want high resolution, quality images then burning a DVD is the way to go and you will need another program as PSE only creates VCD.

Mike

[mane]

Thanks so much for your answers..I have Nero, will it burn the photos better on a DVD??

[TonyW]

As long as you have a version that will support inputing a WMV file and converting it to a DVD it should work fine. Save the Elements slide show as a WMV file making sure you set the quality level to DVD quality or higher.

Tony