background Image-quality

James1

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

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Nov 25, 2010 19:33

Hi,
I have uploaded a few templates to DirectorZone, but I am not sure of the quality, I create them using a vector drawing program then export as tiff or JPG (mainly JPG). Then I crop to 1920x1080 as the output from my vector program leaves a pixel or to extra, then I re-save as JPG/ using 4:4:4 compression.
But when I preview them in PowerDirector they quality isn't what I expect, but I preview on my 24" LCD monitor.
Could some nice gentleman down load the attched image and report back if the quality is optimal?


Filename	LoveBack.jpg	Download
Description	My Background
Filesize	975 Kbytes
Downloaded:	200 time(s)

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Robert2 S

Senior Contributor Location: Australia Joined: Apr 22, 2009 05:57 Messages: 1461 Offline

Nov 25, 2010 19:43

Looks pretty good to me. It doesn't look as clear as a vector drawing, but I would not expect that in a jpg image, I think it is quite acceptable for a video. My youtube channel====> http://www.youtube.com/user/relate2?feature=mhsn

1Nina

Senior Contributor Location: Norway, 50km southwest of Oslo Joined: Oct 08, 2008 04:12 Messages: 1070 Offline

Nov 26, 2010 02:21

Not a Gent-
but can do as well.....

Looks fine, both on 24" Benq and 24" Eizo.

Nina
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VbSparky

Newbie Joined: Aug 11, 2010 11:46 Messages: 6 Offline

Nov 26, 2010 13:44

I see what i call heat wave around the edges of the leafs and hearts , to much compression.

PwnDirector

Newbie Joined: Nov 22, 2009 09:43 Messages: 16 Offline

Jan 22, 2011 13:52

Quote: I see what i call heat wave around the edges of the leafs and hearts , to much compression.

I've finally found someone who has posted the symptoms I'm getting with PD9 ultra, Every background image I import into my 1920x1080 video ends up looking like that after producing an output mpeg..!,..regardless of the original image's pixels or format.

So basically it's a compression issue, Which remains with or without hardware encoding..

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jerrys

Senior Contributor Location: New Britain, CT, USA (between New York and Boston) Joined: Feb 10, 2010 21:36 Messages: 1038 Offline

Jan 23, 2011 15:33

I think what you're seeing is the result of compressing an already-compressed image.

Have you tried using PNG? That, or TIFF, would let you use lossless compression and should give you a better starting point.

Since you're creating vector drawings, you might have even few enough colors to get away with GIF. Jerry Schwartz