[Rick Hughes]

Interesting comment .. not always the same view for others –
I worked for a company that was 100% MAC based ……however in sheer performance level the MAC’s started trailing way behind what you could get for same spend with a PC.

In the end the company (3000 people at that point)moved everyone off MAC to PC platform, at the time everyone was so pleased, as we all got an immediate hike in performance on your works machine (laptop or desk top)

Never come across any major enterprise that still issue MAC’s as standard …

Now a few years on … many companies offer BYOD and users have Macbooks and iPad … but still usually self funded.

[Rick Hughes]

I have no problems with editing … so I wont convert … unless doing something else in Virtual Dub when I have to save as ‘something’

I currently use DeShaker filter in Virtual Dub to provide stabilization to footage that needs it …….. the built in VideoFx Stablizer does not seem that good in MSP (at least is side by side comparison)

[Rick Hughes]

Thanks John … it was for final output that I would be looking to use that codec …. not as input media to Vegas.
Thanks for the explanation – all helps with my knowledge.

[Rick Hughes]

OK .. thanks anyway …
I have some excellent codecs on my PC … in particular
The x264vfw – H.264.MPEG-4 codec, very highly rated.

I’ll take a look at Frameserving out to Virtual Dub and render from there.
Also then gives me options to use the Grass Valley HQx and CineForm codecs.

[Rick Hughes]

Tried following steps ….
Step 1 is OK
On Step 2 when I Render As > Video for Windows ….. there is no option in the drop down list that is ‘uncompressed’
List starts with NTSC DV and ends with HD-1080 24 YUV …. no template under Video for Windows called uncompressed.

[Rick Hughes]

I have used 2 different Canopus ADVC units the 3000 and a 110 … find them very good.

Personally I found best way to use them was to use WIN-DV
https://www.videohelp.com/software/WinDV

This is a tiny program, consumes hardly any memory, is fast simple and bombproof.

I used this for capture of all my VCR footage into DV files.

[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?

[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

[Rick Hughes]

Having finished all the scanning and adjustment in Lightroom …. thought I’d start off the discs with one which I only need DVD for (no Blu-ray version)

So resized the slides to twice the resolution of DVD in jpeg as advised (1440 x 1152)

Just for some testing dropped some files on timeline .. of a PAL Widescreen project …
The files have the 1.457 aspect ratio the Videopreview window shows the images with vertical blackbars on left & right ……and if I use ‘Render As’ Mainconcept PAL DVD widescreen resulting mpg file also has these.

Anything amiss or is that what I should expect (it seems correct to me) ? ……… asking as there were comments that if I get aspect ratio wrong I can get letter box ….

I can improve by zoom in on ‘pan + crop’ and get image to fit full width – but would lose then top & bottom off image …..can I do that once and have it apply across all slides, or is that something MSP cannot do.

Would ‘Ultimate S Lite‘ be able to do this ?

[Rick Hughes]

I” try some tests on my TV … thanks didn’t realise that