G'day Dorian -

The other issue I referred to was resolved with patch v2930 - http://forum.cyberlink.com/forum/posts/list/16652.page#90498

I've not ever been particularly aware of image quality being diminished when placed between two video clips & burnt to DVD... apart from the normal degradation you'd expect.

Next time I'm having a burn, I'll check.

Cheers - Tony
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Tony
Thanks for the lighting fast response.
Downloaded the latest patch/installed.
Still same problem, lower resolution on images nested in between vid segments.
Seems like the images vary in quality after being written to DVD.
Funny thing this is that the full screen video preview at Full HD is better than the DVD.
Also, looked back at a previous project with a whole chapter of only slide show, the images are razor sharp, perfect.
Kind of a bummer as the nested images cited above were taken at the same time as the video (Palm Canyon, at Palm Springs, CA, USA) and so the images were intended as a sort of counterpoise to my rather amateurish video to get a “clear picture” of the beauty of the canyon. The opposite is the unfortunate result.
Will try to reduce the resolution of the images. Possibly, if the images are the same screen resolution as the video, the program may write the DVD property.
There’s gotta be a work-a-round.
Hope Cyberlink gets this resolved, I love the program.
Let me know if you have any other thoughts.
Thank you,
Dorian

Dear Tony,
Well I tried several things but no joy.
Tried reducing the images (.jpgs) to at or below 1080 resolution in hopes that the program was having issues with doing the “math.” Images still come out low res.
Took the same PowerDirector project and produced as a .wmv FULL HD, no prob.
The wmv images look great. So the issue has something to do with disk creation.
Being a newbee with this stuff doesn’t help matters either.
The weird thing is how a slide show, written to disc (DVD Video), as a chapter in a larger project, writes perfectly (no image resolution loss), and images and video together cause image resolution reduction.
As a final thought, I placed images in between individual video segments (not in the middle of a split video segment) but the same thing happen there too.
For info this is PD9 Ultra64 9.0.0.3305.
There does not appear to be any preferences that will help.
This is an Intel E8500 system (OC’d to 4Ghz) with 8gb of ram running on Win 7 Pro.

If you come up with any ideas, I’d be REALLY HAPPY
Cheers from Sunny (but chilly today) San Diego.
Dorian