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Rendering a Slideshow project for a 1080 presentation
I’ve created a 16.5 minute slideshow presentation with pictures (about 3MB each picture from 10Mpix camera) and music. I can render it and get it to a DVD…no problem. It plays great. However, I really want to get it to render at a reasonable high quality to fill a 1080 TV. I just want a standard DVD (not Blu-Ray).
What settings should I use to render this? I realize for my portrait pictures that there will be wide, vertical black bands which is expected.
I’ve played around with a bunch of settings. When I chose one particular 1080 setting I ended up with a 120GB+ (!!!) rendering. C’mon, the resultant files for the DVD are less than 1GB.
My results for the 1080 settings have been lacking since the resultant video doesn’t come close to filling the screen.
Thanks for any help in advance.
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3 Replies
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The TV should have a setting to make it fill the screen, but it you could use a laptop connected with a VGA cable, render as 720p or 1080i WMV and use Media player full screen out to the HDTV, The results will be drasticly bettet. Hope this helps, Danny
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I appreciate the reply. However, I’m a bit confused. Why would the TV have to expand the picture at all if I’ve rendered it for a 1080 display?
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You didn’t say what your original project settings were for the first DVD (4:3 or 16:9). If you want to fill an HD TV then you’ll want to create the project as widescreen (16:9) and render to widescreen.
I would set your project to NTSC DV Widescreen (720×480, 29.970 fps) and make sure that you crop your images to fill the entire screen. Then render using the MPEG2 template DVD Architect NTSC Widescreen video stream and render your audio as Dolby Digital AC3. This will give you the best quality that a DVD can offer. To get better quality, you’ll need to use Blu-ray or stream HD from a PC or media player as Danny has suggested.
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