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CPH54a [Avatar]
Newbie Location: Sheffield, England Joined: Jan 17, 2011 09:15 Messages: 15 Offline
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I am digitising a large number of slides and importing them into PD9 for a slide show. The images in windows look reasonably sharp and also sharp in the preview window when imported into PD. When I load them into the time line they seem to degenarate and become slightly "un-sharp" Is this simply due to the time line and when transfered to disc they will retain their original form or do I need to sharpen them on the time line ? I have also tried them in a friend's copy of Corel Video Studion and in that they seem to retain sharpness on both preview and time line. The image in windows movie maker also seems to be OK. I would prefer to us PD so pose the question. Is simply the timeline image that is "wrong" and I should simply leave the image alone and not adjust sharpness and how does one judge a image that actually is slighly out to sharpen?

David David
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Senior Contributor Location: Cambridge, UK Joined: Nov 24, 2011 04:44 Messages: 731 Offline
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If you mean the preview image is sharper when you select the library item than when you select the timeline then this may be due to the preview resolution setting. If you select a timeline item then click the icon between the camera and speaker icons under the preview window you will see a drop-down menu with a choice of five preview resolution settings. Obviously the higher resolutions make greater demands on the harware and may degrade the smoothness of playback so depending on the performance of your hardware you will need to find a compromise between resolution and playback.

Edit to add that this won't have any effect on the eventual output which should have the sharpness you observe when you view the images in Windows.

This message was edited 1 time. Last update was at Mar 29. 2013 18:22

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Mike

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