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VideoEditor54321
Member Location: Las Vegas, Nevada Joined: Dec 25, 2010 12:19 Messages: 61 Offline
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VideoEditor54321
Member Location: Las Vegas, Nevada Joined: Dec 25, 2010 12:19 Messages: 61 Offline
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Unfortunately I am getting the same results. It really should be working. I click off the Maintain Aspect Ration then holding the shift key I can pull down the bottom of the image and the right and left sides move off screen respectively but when I play back I get the same horrible pixilation as before. I know this can be done. Dell Studio XPS 7100 Minitower:
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vn800rider
Senior Contributor Location: Darwen, UK Joined: May 15, 2008 04:32 Messages: 1949 Offline
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If you have preview or production questions, I would suggest starting a new thread. It makes it easier for folk to find and more suggestions are likely to be offered, otherwise threads become too complex.

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BarryTheCrab
Senior Contributor Location: USA Joined: Nov 06, 2008 22:18 Messages: 6240 Offline
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Videoeditor 54321,
are you taken leave of your senses?
Hero?
Do you know what you've done?
Egads, man, it'll take weeks to deflate that over-pressurized ego of his.
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VideoEditor54321
Member Location: Las Vegas, Nevada Joined: Dec 25, 2010 12:19 Messages: 61 Offline
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Well....it's not working so...
But it really should work. I've got hours invested in this. Dell Studio XPS 7100 Minitower:
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albertS [Avatar]
Newbie Joined: Jan 04, 2011 15:16 Messages: 42 Offline
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Hi!

Time has passed since January 1st. Has any of you found the answer of the problem stated above?
I spent a lot of time and no result. Quite disappointed. It would be nice to pan through a panorama picture with the minimum and standard quality of 1080 lines.

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floridagator
Newbie Location: Florida Joined: Nov 23, 2010 07:27 Messages: 26 Offline
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Jerry got it right. PNG will do everything that JPG will not do, including transparancy. In photo editing to do cutouts and etc, PNG is the only way to go. Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit
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albertS [Avatar]
Newbie Joined: Jan 04, 2011 15:16 Messages: 42 Offline
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Your statement is interesting but does not solve the problem mentioned just above.

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1Nina
Senior Contributor Location: Norway, 50km southwest of Oslo Joined: Oct 08, 2008 04:12 Messages: 1070 Offline
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It's very late in my corner of the world.....

AlbertS, you write:
Has any of you found the answer of the problem stated above?


Do you mean formats- or the fact that PD converts the images?
A few times a year the question of resolution comes up.

Have a read in this thread; http://forum.cyberlink.com/forum/posts/list/16652.page#83106
I'm sure the search-button will give you more.
(But I think the answer is :no - unless 2930 fixed it )

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James1
Senior Contributor Location: Surrey, B.C., Canada Joined: Jun 10, 2010 16:20 Messages: 1783 Offline
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Hi,
I am not familiar with your photo editing software I am using corel Photo-Paint X3. to get to my suggestion, if your Photo editing software can create animations (Corel Photo-Paint X3 and my Vector program Deisigner Por 7 Can) create an animation importing your Panaromic image with the 1920x1080 size and your panoramic image scrolling as desired then output to AVI which can be impoerted to PD 9.
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albertS [Avatar]
Newbie Joined: Jan 04, 2011 15:16 Messages: 42 Offline
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1Nina, I guess you are in bed by now so, good morning! Your suggestion is not about making PD9 accepting pictures (panorama) larger than 1920 pixels in width to prevent the loss of quality induced by PD9 behaviour.

Thank you James1. This is one way around the problem if one can find a non-expensive (free?) programme capable of making the said .avi.

I use Thumb+ as my photo editor along with an old PaintShopPro. I don't know if any of them can make the panoramic scrolling. Too late to look at it, most of my neurons are cooked!

Does anyone knows about The Gimp? Can it do the avi file? Switched to PD10 now, just before PD11 was announced! Loser forever!
Carl312
Senior Contributor Location: Texas, USA Joined: Mar 16, 2010 20:11 Messages: 9090 Offline
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There is a free software that can create a scrolling Panorama and output as a AVI file.

http://www.wpanorama.com/wpanorama.php?r=1309738012

I think the AVI would work well in Powerdirector. Carl312: Windows 10 64-bit 8 GB RAM,AMD Phenom II X4 965 3.4 GHz,ATI Radeon HD 5770 1GB,240GB SSD,two 1TB HDs.

ynotfish
Senior Contributor Location: N.S.W. Australia Joined: May 08, 2009 02:06 Messages: 9977 Offline
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Hey Carl -

That software does a decent job!

Using one of the downloadable panorama shots, I set the AVI file to produce based on the image resolution - 24401x4032 - the result was a series of videos - 1904x927 @ just over 1MBps (2GB each).

These imported into PD no problem. Each video segment butted up seamlessly against the one beside it & played back with no hiccups. I adjusted the AR to 16:9 to remove the top/bottom black bars & produced to AVC H.264 1920X1080.

Guess I'm about to learn about photo stitching.

Cheers - Tony
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albertS [Avatar]
Newbie Joined: Jan 04, 2011 15:16 Messages: 42 Offline
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Thank you Carl. There you go! I'm going to try the programme and will report. Switched to PD10 now, just before PD11 was announced! Loser forever!
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Great find Carl!

I had a similar problem that I posted a while back and in spite of the best efforts of the people here, there appeared to be no solution. This program solves my biggest problem.

Time to dig out that old project and start tinkering with it again.
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Bubba in TX
Senior Contributor Location: Central Texas Joined: Dec 12, 2009 21:32 Messages: 1332 Offline
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I only use png when I want a transparent background. (which is a LOT lately) Otherwise jpeg of course.

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Carl312
Senior Contributor Location: Texas, USA Joined: Mar 16, 2010 20:11 Messages: 9090 Offline
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Thanks Guys.

I just did a search in Google and that was one of the first links in the search results.

Years ago I used Panorama Factory when it was a free program. I used to do a lot of still panoramas.

It is amazing what you can create out of a collection of panned still photos.
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Carl312
Senior Contributor Location: Texas, USA Joined: Mar 16, 2010 20:11 Messages: 9090 Offline
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Guess I'm about to learn about photo stitching.


Yes, you are Tony.

You will also learn that having a camera mounted on a level tripod is essential

I have seen a panorama made from a hand held camera. The result is not bad considering the vertical movement. A good panorama program can still stitch the photos.
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albertS [Avatar]
Newbie Joined: Jan 04, 2011 15:16 Messages: 42 Offline
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Hi!

Here are the results of my tests.
The programme WPanorama works as advertised and I managed to do .avi files easily. Unfortunately the best definition I could get for 16 x 9 HDvideo is 1272 x 715 which is much better than what I had before but still 43% less good than full HD. The rendering is also a bit jerky.
I have written to the author of the programme asking for the possibility of improving the definition and also to thank him on the behalf of all the people in demand for such a programme.
Thank you again Carl,

Albert

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James1
Senior Contributor Location: Surrey, B.C., Canada Joined: Jun 10, 2010 16:20 Messages: 1783 Offline
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Hi,
My experience in recording to Avi is to use the Cinepak(sp) codec if you have a choice when saving it should come under 'Options' in avi menu. (Well it does on the various programs I have installed). I use a variety of programs for various reasons and find the CinePak gives the best results.
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albertS [Avatar]
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Jim how do you link your use of cinepak(sp) and WPanorama?
You lost me somewhere there!

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