Picture quality

I am trying to make a slide show with background music. I noticed that when I open a picture in full screen view it looks great. However, as soon as I add it to the timeline and open it in full screen view it is horrible. I have the same problem as christine.

timeline previews at 1/2 resolution, makes the realtime editing take less
processing power, still publishes at full resolution though

"Justin" <Justin@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> I am trying to make a slide show with background music. I noticed that

when I open a picture in full screen view it looks great. However, as soon
as I add it to the timeline and open it in full screen view it is horrible.
I have the same problem as christine.

I am having the same problem. I was hoping that the picture quality was only going to be affected while I was editing, but when I publish, the pictures are still poor quality. I have used Nero to make a slideshow of pictures, and the quality is great. I want to use Movie Maker so that I can add titles and music, but the picutre quality is terrible. Any suggestions???


"print_maker" wrote:

> timeline previews at 1/2 resolution, makes the realtime editing take less
> processing power, still publishes at full resolution though
>
> "Justin" <Justin@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:53168B2A-B7CF-405E-91C9-8C73119687D7@microsoft.com...

> > I am trying to make a slide show with background music. I noticed that

> when I open a picture in full screen view it looks great. However, as soon
> as I add it to the timeline and open it in full screen view it is horrible.
> I have the same problem as christine.
>
>
>

I've recorded a movie under movie maker 1 but the picture quality is very
poor. Is there anything I can use to improve this.
I have a sony digitaal video camera (DCR-HC14E) and used a USB cable. My PC
has an intel pentium 4 processor 3.06ghz

Use firewire, it was designed specifically for capturing video, the
difference will amaze you!!!
As the pc spec sounds good I'd assume you will have onboard firewire, also
known as ieee1394/i-link.

Graham

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"naz" <naz@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> I've recorded a movie under movie maker 1 but the picture quality is very
> poor. Is there anything I can use to improve this.
> I have a sony digitaal video camera (DCR-HC14E) and used a USB cable. My
> PC
> has an intel pentium 4 processor 3.06ghz

For this project, I'm solely using still photgraphs taken with my Nikon D70
DSLR. I notice the poor quality from within Movie Maker. I import a picture
into the project - it looks fine. As soon as I drag it onto the Storyboard
it becomes blurry.

I tried changing the resolution from 3000x2000 to 1024x768 (approximately).
It made no difference.

To answer PapaJohn, I would have noticed it if this had happened to my
earlier project. Funny thing is that when I open that older project now, I
have the same problem. This problem did not exist before.

I appreciate your replies!

"eeyore" wrote:

> A couple of questions:
> - When you notice the poor quality where are you playing the movie and
> is it the same as before (ie are we talking on the PC or DVD or are you
> playing the project within MM2)
> - Have you changed the resolution or type of movie rendered(ie 320x240,
> wmv rather than AVI, or 480kbps rather than 1500)?
>
>
> Rob
> XMENPorsche wrote:

> > I import pictures that are perfectly clear into a movie but when I play the
> > movie back the pictures have become very blurry. The pictures were
> > originally shot at 3000x2000 resolution and are in the .jpg format. Do I
> > need to re-size them to something smaller? This is the 3rd movie that I've
> > made and I did not have problems using pictures taken at this res before.
> > Any help that I can get would be much appreciated.

>

the project storyline/timeline is a low draft quality 320x240 mode at 15
fps... not the quality you get when you save the movie...

nothing has changed in Movie Maker
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"XMENPorsche" <XMENPorsche@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> For this project, I'm solely using still photgraphs taken with my Nikon
> D70
> DSLR. I notice the poor quality from within Movie Maker. I import a
> picture
> into the project - it looks fine. As soon as I drag it onto the
> Storyboard
> it becomes blurry.
>
> I tried changing the resolution from 3000x2000 to 1024x768
> (approximately).
> It made no difference.
>
> To answer PapaJohn, I would have noticed it if this had happened to my
> earlier project. Funny thing is that when I open that older project now,
> I
> have the same problem. This problem did not exist before.
>
> I appreciate your replies!
>
> "eeyore" wrote:
>

>> A couple of questions:
>> - When you notice the poor quality where are you playing the movie and
>> is it the same as before (ie are we talking on the PC or DVD or are you
>> playing the project within MM2)
>> - Have you changed the resolution or type of movie rendered(ie 320x240,
>> wmv rather than AVI, or 480kbps rather than 1500)?
>>
>>
>> Rob
>> XMENPorsche wrote:

>> > I import pictures that are perfectly clear into a movie but when I play
>> > the
>> > movie back the pictures have become very blurry. The pictures were
>> > originally shot at 3000x2000 resolution and are in the .jpg format. Do
>> > I
>> > need to re-size them to something smaller? This is the 3rd movie that
>> > I've
>> > made and I did not have problems using pictures taken at this res
>> > before.
>> > Any help that I can get would be much appreciated.

>>

ckrn wrote:

> I am working on a project that has the old slide show slide from the
> 1950-1970. I am also adding in scanned in pictures and some pictures
> from a digital camera. The slides seem to have good quality pictures.
> The scanned in photo look good on the scanner software than look
> terrible when imported to movie maker. What can I do?

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Just stating that an image "looks terrible"
is not enough information. Can you offer
more details? And what is the "scanner
software"?

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