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When creating a photo slideshow; is there any advantage in modifying the photographs to be a particular resolution? In the past I've run a batch operation on all the images I was going to use in the slideshow to reduce them to 720x480 which is the standard resolution of TV's (non-HD) It seemed to speed things up a bit and produce a nice output, but I have no understanding of the system to know if this was a good step or not. Any thoughts on this subject? I'm currently working on a large project and I'm at the point I need to decide what direction to take on this.
Photoshop has a nice batch run mode so it is not a difficult thing to do but maybe it is a waste of time. I just thought that MAYBE Photoshop did a better job a scaling.
You don't need to resize your images before using them in DVD PixPlay, becuase it will automatically resize them as required (and uses one of the leading smoothing algorithms when it does it)
The only time you might consider batch resizing your images is if they are huge ( > 10 MegaPixel) digital camera files (particularly if they're in a Raw camera format). This will make PixPlay run a bit faster when you are manipulating and burning your project. You should reduce them to around 3 x DVD resolution, e.g. around 2200 x 1800.
Photo Image Resolution
Posted - Apr 02 2008 : 08:06:14
