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Thanks. If it turns out that this is normal, what program/s do you use to create animations, and what process gets around this issue?
David
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Does anyone know if it is possible to improve the graphics quality of a gradient background? My workflow is 1) Create .swf animation with the background. 2) Change it into an AVI file using a utility program. 3) Import the AVI into PD, and create an MPG file. The AVI is crystal clear, but the MPG file has banding in it.
I'm suspecting that this may be the best I can do, because the banding may be being introduced by the MPG encoding process. I've tried every other output setting in PD, and this is the best I can accomplish. I'm outputting MP2 file with custom settings - I upped the Average and Maximum bitrates to 25000. CVBR / CBR - no difference. Smoothing, Noise removal, Progressive/non-progressive, no real difference. Quality slider: 7. Just installed new update to take that out of the equation, and the MPG file was produced with it.
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Thank you, vn800rider. I assume that you are correct. Further testing indicates that my original attempt probably succeeded, using a 134x1280 bitmap image on the PIP track. My new test with that image worked perfectly. Therefore, the lesson learned is to preview the videos in WMP, not GOM. I tried a few different settings inside of GOM, to see if it would work, but none of them did. Since I have more important things to do than mess with GOM all day, I'll get to those issues.
Thanks!
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* Place a 1280x720 graphic to overlay from a PiP, don't use the blank video track timeline....
To be clear, are you saying to use a 1280x720 graphic (with alpha channel) for the PIP image, and not to place that graphic into the master video track?
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As per the color board, no, I don't believe so. I simply imported the PNG into the library, and then dragged it onto the PIP timeline, made it fit the entire width of the video, and resized it in the preview to exactly fit the width of the video while keeping the aspect ratio.
Now, with more testing I've found that the issue may be the video playback program I was using.
I tried your method, and with GOM player it looked different than either of the original two graphics I posted (and still not good). Then I decided to try it in Windows Media Player, and lo-and-behold it was perfect! So, it isn't an issue on your end for full-sized grahics.
I'll do some more testing and try to leave a post if I can figure out what settings are good for GOM player.
ps - thanks for getting back so quick
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I'm testing PowerDirector, and want to know if there is a way to get better graphics output than I'm currently achieving.
I'm working with a project in 720p, from a camera taking 720p video, so it is 1280x720. With that as the only video in the PD project, I've imported a PNG file that has been created for a PIP picture. It's dimensions are 1280w x 134h, and is clear, and I've stretched it to exactly fit to the sides of the video, so there should be no resizing of the graphic in the end. But in the final video it is dull, and I would like to know if I'm missing something to overcome this, or is this a limitation of the software?
Thanks,
David
(Just so it is clear, the left image in the attached graphic is a screen grab of the PNG file that was imported into PD, the right image is the way it displayed in the final video.)
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