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Morry
New Zealand
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Posted - Mar 06 2009 : 18:31:46
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Hi,can you please help? When I edit the text of titles in the edit window,and press ok it looks fine, but press view on screen and the text is partally clipped off at the last letter of the last words in the sentence? It appears to be real bad in the impact font which I like using! I have tried reducing the font size and ajusting the guide frames if that's what their called
I have not had any trouble with text in titles in my previous PixPlay version? |
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xequte
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Posted - Mar 07 2009 : 00:28:08
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Hi Morry
What version of PixPlay are you using? What version were you using previously where it worked as expected?
At the bottom right of the Edit Text window what "Optimize" setting do you have selected? Does changing that make any difference?
Nigel
Xequte Software
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Morry
New Zealand
31 Posts |
Posted - Mar 08 2009 : 17:09:44
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Hello Nigel,V3.03 and the old was 2.8 I think! I have tried the optimize option it did not make any difference in preventing the Impact font being clipped on the last letter of sentence!But hey I have now got bigger woes with the programme, after spending untold hours putting custom transitions into a project and pressing save, I opened Pixplay up to find my project images still there in secquence but, shock horror my custom wav.music and transitions totally gone?
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xequte
7504 Posts |
Posted - Mar 11 2009 : 01:24:06
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Hi Morry
Regarding the clipping you should try the latest version, v3.34.
As for your lost settings, are you sure you have opened the correct file? Please check the recent files list under the File menu. Also do you have a back up or your project file?
Nigel
Xequte Software
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Morry
New Zealand
31 Posts |
Posted - Mar 13 2009 : 15:24:58
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Hi Nigel, regarding the missing transitions and wav file The files must have deleted the somehow because they were not to be seen in the work folder and as the transitions are not in a seperate file to the images the project images I looked at with no transitions or music added on the following morning must have been a copy I made the night before I put all the transitions and music in!I have put the transitions and wav. file back in the project now and all seems to be staying put ok!
Regarding the text clipping problem, I narrowed it down to the fact that I was using the italic option and capitals and it diden't matter what font I was using, the last letter on the extreme right of the text is partially clipped when I finally press the view tab after editing! I would like to know is this little quirk restricted to my PixPlay programme only? I will up date the programme of course if it will fix the problem.
Nigel can you tell me why the DVD quality VCD when viewed on TV appears washed out with burnt out highlights . I watch video still shot images of cars for sale on TV and their highlight tones do not appear washed out? |
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xequte
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Posted - Mar 16 2009 : 05:02:15
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Ah, yes that might occur with Italics, because Windows tends not to report the correct text width for an italicized font. Add an extra space at the end of the text to be sure.
Regarding the color issue, your slideshow is converted to MPEG when you make a disk, so it will tend to lose a bit of quality. Try using the high quality encoding option.
Nigel
Xequte Software
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Morry
New Zealand
31 Posts |
Posted - Mar 17 2009 : 16:52:37
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| Hello Nigel, many thanks for that. Regarding the quality issue for TV viewing of a PixPlay DVD quality slideshow on disc, what would have to be achieved to get similar quality as one gets with computer viewed shows. Will simply playing the disc through a HD TV ( I haven't got one yet) bring the quality up to par with computer viewed good quality slideshows? |
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JIMD
USA
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Posted - Mar 17 2009 : 18:58:20
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MORRY
Computer monitors and TVs differ in the following important ways:
Color:
Computer monitors and television screens generate colors differently. This means that colors that look fine on your computer may not look so hot when viewed on a TV.
Pixel shape:
Video images are made up of a grid of tiny little blocks called pixels. Pixels on computer monitors are square, but the pixels in TV images are slightly rectangular. Basically this means that some images that look okay on your computer may appear slightly stretched or squeezed on a TV. This usually isn't a problem for video that's captured from your camcorder, but still images and graphics that are generated on your computer could be a problem.
Interlacing:
TV video images are usually interlaced, whereas computer monitors draw images by using progressive scanning. The main problem that you encounter when you export a project to DVD is that the very thin lines that show up on the screen may flicker or appear to crawl. Pay special attention to titles, where thin lines are likely to appear in some letters.
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Morry
New Zealand
31 Posts |
Posted - Mar 19 2009 : 07:00:45
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| Hello Jim many thanks, but what about HD TVs with progressive file signal compatibility.Are they much better for displaying DVD quality video slideshows compared to older style TVs without progressive? |
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JIMD
USA
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Posted - Mar 19 2009 : 09:57:35
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MORRY
Points to Remember:
1. Any DVD player can be hooked up to an HDTV. Although upscaling DVD players are better able to match the native pixel resolution of an HDTV, you will still get good results on a standard DVD player that is connected via an HDTV's provided Component or S-Video inputs.
2. If you DO have an HDTV, and a standard DVD player, you will get the best results using the Component video connection (red-blue-green) between the DVD player and the HDTV. In addition, if your DVD player is progressive scan capable, always use that option when connected to a progressive scan capable television.
3. DVD video upscaling is only an approximation of the high definition viewing experience. To get the full impact of true high definition viewing from a disc format, you need to have either a Blu-ray or HD-DVD player connected to an HDTV via an HDMI connection and be viewing actual Blu-ray or HD-DVD disc content.
Remember the old saying "Garbage in Garbage out", so if you have low quality images, videos or graphics it will only be worse on HDTV.
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xequte
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Posted - Mar 20 2009 : 03:30:06
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Hi Morry
Jim is correct. Even with a HD TV and upscaling DVD player you can't create resolution that isn't there (for example, if you double the size of an image, you're just getting pixels of twice the original size. Of course your playback device will use an algorithm to try and make the image look like it has improved in quality, but the information just isn't there so it is only making a calculated guess).
Ultimately DVD video has quite a low resolution compared with normal digital images, so you are unlikely to get truly high definition slideshows until programs like DVD PixPlay support Blu-ray or HD-DVD format.
Nigel
Xequte Software
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Morry
New Zealand
31 Posts |
Posted - Mar 20 2009 : 06:16:14
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| Many thanks Nigel and Jim for the info.! |
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Morry
New Zealand
31 Posts |
Posted - Mar 28 2009 : 05:58:33
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| I have been having text trouble using capitals in bold italic in the title frames. I was and still do get clipping of the end letters in the sentences. By adding some extra spacing at the end as sugested by Nigel I have found it works some what. But when I was doing a title to image format transfer on HD I got a error sign come up saying (no go to burn).This was after I had already done some text title transfers to image on the HD ok. I found out that if I rebooted the PC everything worked again! I sent you a e mail on that Nigel is it Windows rejecting the italics or overloading after a while? |
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xequte
7504 Posts |
Posted - Mar 29 2009 : 04:40:59
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Hi Morry
You don't mention what particular error you got, but given that restarting Windows resolved it then presumably it was memory related.
If the error recurs, please let me know.
Nigel
Xequte Software
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