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Anita,
I moved to PD8 a few days ago because I was tired of all the crashes with WMP.
The first time I rendered the same slide show in PD8 that I had done in WMP I was surprised. The quality stunk. Both are rendered in WMV format. Even the PD8 titles turned out blurry.
Since then I have rendered this same slide show in AVC format. This took 3:38 to render a 4 minute slide show. The quality was better but the digital pictures were squished and it messed up the soundtrack.
Next, I tried AVI. Still not acceptable. But a little quicker.
Then I tried MPEG-2. Turned out great. All the imported graphics are as good as the original and the titles even come through clear.
The file size for the MPEG-2 is much greater than the WMV but well worth the quality. And, the render time isn't bad at all.
And a thought: When I heard that Cyberlink decided to sacrifice quality for time, I thought, how stupid. Sounds like something Microsoft would do. Anyone who puts a blurry video on the web isn't going to get it seen. What good is a video if no one will watch it? Anyone who is willing to give up quality for a few minutes time isn't to bright and shouldn't be catered to.
Just my 2 cents worth.
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