Terry Esslinger
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Yes, but unless you are making it for yourself how do you know that your client has a ‘good’ tv. Better to use some safe area and play it safe, so to speak.
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I did paste insert the pics into the video track flow
It sounds like you placed the pic on the same track as the video. Instaed add a new video track (if you have one to spare) and place it as number 2. Make your video track 3. Place your pic on track one wherever in the tl you want it. Then place another copy of the pic in track 2 beneath the pic in track 1. Then use the fx to turn the pic in track 2 to sepia (or black and white etc) and then add a fair amount of blur. Now when you place your curser on the time line where the pic is you will see your original pic in track one with the video from track 3 aound the edge (probably the sides. You will not see the pic from track 2. Now open the pan/crop on the pic in track 2. In the pan crop window right click the pic and choose match output aspect. Now you should see in the preview window the pic from track 1 with the blurred, recolored version of the pic from track 2 around the edge. It will not be distorted but it really doesn’t matter as it is blurry anyway. And you will not see any of the video from track 3. When the pics end (or fade out)the video from track 3 will be visible again. You can take the pic in track 1 and use pan/crop to zoom in/out.
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You seem reluctant to remove the video from the track below the pics. Howcome? If you are afraid it will disrupt the flow of the video/audio try this: Move your video down a track (ie track 3) Then place a copy of your photo on track two under the original photo (track one). Use pan/crop and match output aspect so that photo on track 2 fills entire screen. Then turn the photo in track two to a sepia tone and than apply some gaussian blur. This will create a nice background under the photo in track one when you zoom out. Your video on the lower track will be unaffected.
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I am assuming that you are creating a SD DVD. I use DVD Archetect to author my DVDs and have ben quite happy with it (your mileage may vary). If you are creating a short program as it sounds like I would use a constant bitrate of 8,000,000. Higher and some DVD players starrt to choke on it. Lower and you start to lose quality. Again it must be an MPEG2 to play in a DVD player.
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The quality of your DVD will be cased on the quality of your original file (as lossless as possible) and then the bit rate of the MPEG2 that you must make to use a DVD for display. You need to use a DVD authoring program that will allow you to adjust the bitrate.
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While Mikes answer is the right answer, I think you would see a dramatic difference with more RAM. Assuming that you are running at least XP, your OS is using up most of your RAM now.
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Snapping will also let you be sure that you have joined different segments onj the timeline as they will ‘snap’ together and a colored line will flash to confirm the placement.
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PS: Turn off auto ripple when you are done with it.
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Right click drag and drop and choose video only.
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Are you using particle illusion for light saber and blaster effects? If NOT can you explain how you are doing them?