soft background stills DVD authoring

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TONY AVS

Newbie Joined: Dec 07, 2009 10:40 Messages: 25 Offline

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Aug 11, 2010 01:30

Has anyone used still photos/freeze-frames as backgrounds for DVD authoring with PD8? Every time I try to use a still image as a background on the DVD menus it is no longer sharp. It is very soft. Any ideas as to why?

James1

Senior Contributor Location: Surrey, B.C., Canada Joined: Jun 10, 2010 16:20 Messages: 1783 Offline

Aug 11, 2010 11:25

Hi,
I have ben experimenting using my own Backgrounds, creating them in a Vector authoring program Xara Designer Pro and exporting them in various formats, jpg,tif and png.
I create the Images at 1920X1080, then export them, bring them into bitmap editor and do any cropping to that is needed and exporting them as Jpg with 4:4:: algorithm and they seem to be sharper.
But when viewing on my 24" monitor they don't seem as sharp as when viewed on 50" LCD tV.
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TONY AVS

Newbie Joined: Dec 07, 2009 10:40 Messages: 25 Offline

Aug 11, 2010 12:52

Thanks for the tip. I should be able to accomplish the same thing in photoshop.

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