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kafka
Australia
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Posted - Nov 02 2011 : 15:18:34
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I have just returned from a holiday in the UK. I created five slideshows (England 1, Wales, Scotland, England 2 and Paris)and added captions. When I burn the five slideshows as a multiple slideshow I find that the title frame (e.g. Paris) appears withour the image (fireworks at night) and just the word "Paris". The first image is also missing. I get a blank screen with only the caption "Our apartment" appearing. I haven't looked at all 700 or so images in the slideshows but there is at least one other image missing in the Paris slideshow.
Strangely enough, when I burned the Paris slideshow by itself to a DVD the missing images were present, so the problem obviously is related to the multiple slideshow. |
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xequte
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kafka
Australia
29 Posts |
Posted - Nov 03 2011 : 04:49:53
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| Thanks Nigel. I have downloaded the style plug-in and will try re-burning the multiple slideshow project overnight. I am using version 7.04. |
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kafka
Australia
29 Posts |
Posted - Nov 03 2011 : 19:35:48
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| After installing theplug-in I tried burning the multiple slidshow again. It worked! The images etc. missing after my original attempt were now there. I still don't know why my images are not in widescreen format even though I selected widescreen when burning the multiple slideshows. The title screens are all widescreen (i.e. fill the screen) but my images don't. |
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xequte
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Posted - Nov 04 2011 : 00:51:46
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If they are normal landscape images that you have not cropped to widescreen size then you will see borders on the sides because their ratio will be 4:3.
Nigel
Xequte Software
www.xequte.com
nigel@xequte.com
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kafka
Australia
29 Posts |
Posted - Nov 05 2011 : 22:56:07
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It's been a long time since I created a slideshow from scratch. In my original post I asked why my images were appearing on my TV in 4:3 ratio even though I had specified widescreen. After receiving your reply suggesting croping the images I suddenly remembered a step I had missed this time around. What I should have done was to resize the images using Photoshop Elements or FastStone Photo Resizer. I did this and the images were bigger (no longer 4:3) but still didn't fill the screen. In resizing landscape images I made the width 3543 pixels and the height was adjusted as appropriate by the resizing software.
My question is: does anyone know the optimal width in pixels for a high definition TV? I suspect that it must be greater than 3543.
ALSO: in another post I mentioned missing images. Nigel suggested downloading DVD PixPlay 7.04, which I did. Next time I created a multiple slideshow project the images were back, however the last time I re-created the same project images were missing again (only on my TV, they are present when I preview the offending slideshow). |
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xequte
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Posted - Nov 06 2011 : 01:25:39
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Hi
With DVD PixPlay it is the Height:Width ratio of the source images, rather than the size itself, that is important. So if your image is 3543 pixels wide then to have it exactly fit a widescreen (16:9) TV it should be 1993 pixels wide (3543 / 16 x 9 = 1993).
Regarding the missing images issue, if the problem recurs please select Help > Send Email to support on the PixPlay menu to send me your details.
Nigel
Xequte Software
www.xequte.com
nigel@xequte.com
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kafka
Australia
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Posted - Nov 06 2011 : 05:05:23
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Thanks again, Nigel. When I resized the images as mentioned above I made the width of the landscape images 3543. As the resizing was constrained the software automatically determined the height, which was always more than 1993. Do you think that:
a) if I made the width a lot less, which would mean that the height became correspondingly less, that I might get a better fit (e.g.
if the width is 2000 the constrained height becomes 1397, 2500 width becomes 1746 heigh and 3000 width becomes 2096 height)
b) Would I better to resize the image based on height rather than width or would it make no difference?
I hate to be a nuisance but I would like to get the best possible picture on my TV without actually having to crop 700 images. |
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xequte
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Posted - Nov 07 2011 : 01:06:54
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Hi
You should not need to resize your images before you add them to DVD PixPlay at all.
Instead add them at full resolution and then select Edit > Remove Borders Wizard (or Frame > Frame Properties, Borders), ensure the "Design for" it set to "Widescreen DVD" and then crop as required.
If you don't want to crop each image individually then you can use the "Auto-cropping" function to remove the top and bottom from your photos to get less borders. At its most extreme settings it can give you no borders at all, but that is not something i would recommend unless you want headless photos.
The area enclosed in red shows what is left if you crop a portrait 4:3 ratio image to get no borders on a 16:9 screen:
The result is much less appealing than the original:
On the other hand here is the same 4:3 portait image as it appears on a 16:9 screen:
Nigel
Xequte Software
www.xequte.com
nigel@xequte.com
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kafka
Australia
29 Posts |
Posted - Nov 07 2011 : 04:52:35
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Thanks for going to all that trouble Nigel. I have given the matter a lot of thought and decided that it would be best to leave things as they are, especially after seeing your example (with andwithout cropping). I am examining my camera's manual to determine how to set it to take pictures in either 16:9 or 3:2 format as it is obviously the ratio which has the most effect on how the image fits on the TV. mind you, I also like to print the photos at postcard size. I will experiment and see what conclusion I come to.
Thanks again. |
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xequte
7504 Posts |
Posted - Nov 08 2011 : 21:16:54
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Hi
Remember also that you can set the auto-cropping to a more modest level to automatically reduce the border area without losing too much of the image information.
Here is the same image with auto-cropping set to 10% (so 5% has been chopped from the top and bottom):
And this is a professionally photographed and cropped image. Most amateur photos have much more unnecessary content towards the edges that can comfortably be snipped.
Nigel
Xequte Software
www.xequte.com
nigel@xequte.com
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