Cuda -

All I could suggest is that you do any image editing (cropping, rotating, resizing) before importing them into PD. There have been plenty of confirmed reports of how PD processes images that would indicate there are some issues that affect quality.

The other thing I'm sure you understand is what happens to images when encoded for DVD. They may start out as reasonably high resolution (say 4000x3000px) but then they're encoded in a 720px wide video, & later upscaled by the DVD player. None of that is a good recipe for quality images!



Cheers - Tony
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Really excellent graphic Tony showing the number crunch to the finished video sizes. I'm just wondering if we should have one with some still image frame sizes and then your graphic template slapped on top. Just an idea.
Dafydd

Gentlemen - Thanks for the replies buttttt.......

Your information is helpfull in that I gain some insight on what happens as far as re-sizing but I still think it is an issue with PD software as horizontal rotated pictures regarless of original size look fine without the stairstep pixellization following diagonal lines or curves in the picture however this is VERY noticeable on vertically rotated pictures even when rotated and re-sized down to 480 in heigth prior to import. That being said I should have checked for the latest patches for PD9 as it seems there are 4 of them that I had not installed! (shame on me!). After upgrading to the latest patch this issue seems to be a bit better or the effect has been minimized. This brings me to another question however? Do all 4 patches need to be installed in order or can you just download and install the latest one which is what I did and seemed to work? I did not see any info on that on the patch download page so just wondering? Seems a good idea for Cyberlink to add a note to that effect on the upgrade page.

Thanks for your chart. I t has been printed for future reference. Good tool!

Cuda

Cuda: Yep, Tony rocks! He has helped out a lot of folks and does some pretty fancy PD tutorials. You can check out some of his work at PDToots.

In answer to your question, PD9 patches are cumulative, according to Cyberlink. You only have to install the latest patch.

Have a great day, and welcome to the PD9 forum.

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I stopped using PD9 for this exact reason and went back to version 8. Never had an issue with version 8 pixelating portrait photos but, version 9 pixelates the photos so severly that you can barely make out the faces! When they come out with version 10 I will try it out before I pay good money to "upgrade".

Hi,
Not sure what Dafydd requested, and not that familiar with PowerDirector 9 but here is a JPG image with colored areas centered on a 1920X1080 background.
I will try and create a video with the various sizes as an overlay. The experienced members may be able to extract the individual sizes and show render differences.
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