Advice on committing 35mm slides to DVD

[Rick Hughes]

I used the information in the 2nd post in the thread … i.e.” .. resize your images to roughly twice the vertical resolution of your output. ”

PAL widescreen DVD would have vert resolution of 576 twice that = 1152
My original files are 4276 x 2984
If I use a re-sizer and the resize to be 1152 on vertical (option is to be based on one side only)

The output file is 1710 x 1152

The horizontal is not set by me the resize program does it by default, I may be getting this wrong as never had to do resizing to suit project before.

should I be forcing pixel size on both dimensions ? … i.e :

I didn’t go that option as when I did that there was significant shape distortion … peoples heads went oval for example.
Since my Q above I found that if I dropped in slides using “Insert Slideshow” it takes the N x 1152 images in and correctly sets zoom or at least appears to do so without distortion.

This is a screen grab .. and DVD created seems to be OK.

But if I am not doing the right thing and losing quality now is time to get it right … as only worked on one pack of slides so far into MSP

[John Rofrano]

OK, if you are using an automatic resize program then you can’t get them to match because the original aspect doesn’t match and you don’t want to stretch your image or blindly crop it. You can crop them in Vegas Pro then to get rid of the black bars. Use the Match Output Aspect option in Pan/Crop and adjust each one to make sure that you don’t crop off an important part of the picture.

~jr

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[Rick Hughes]

John .. just before your post above I update my response with the screen grab of what the ‘insert slideshow’ achieves – seems to do what I need, or am I going wrong still?

[John Rofrano]

Yes, that applied the proper crop. As long as it didn’t crop off anyone’s head, you are all set.

~jr

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http://www.vasst.com

[Rick Hughes]

John …. moving on with this … where is the “Use the Match Output Aspect option”

I tried right-click on the ‘pan crop’ icon on time line, don’t get that option.
I’m using MSP not Vegas Pro .. in case that is relevant.

[Wayne Waag]

Your cursor needs to be somewhere inside the frame on the image itself. Then right-click.

wwaag

[Rick Hughes]

That is what I am doing …. when I right click – this is what I get:

[Wayne Waag]

It would appear that you have placed the cursor over the thumbnail on the timeline, not inside of the VideoEvent Fx window. This is how it should look.

Once you move the cursor inside the window, the cursor arrow will change.

Once you right-click this will appear.

Simply select Match Output Aspect.

wwaag

[Rick Hughes]

Yep … I was taking care to put cursor on the thumbnail of the picture – my fault.

[Rick Hughes]

Yep … I was taking care to put cursor on the thumbnail of the picture – my fault.

‘Matching output aspect’ doesthat mean what you have set in ‘Project Properties’

Does it apply to all images on timeline or do I have to select all and ‘apply attributes’