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Absolute Bewilderment -- Ulead Video Sudio Slide Show

Feb 23, 2005 10:51AM PST

Two years ago I made a slide show with Ulead Video Studio 6. It turned out fine except for some "pixel dancing" in the slides. I upgraded to UVS7, the "dancing" problem went away, and I was pleased and believed that I had seen the last of that problem.

Two weeks ago I created another slide show in the same UVS7. The slides were still images captured from a DV-AVI file to BMP format. Turned out great -- rock steady images, perfect transitions. Full satisfaction.

Yesterday I made another slide show in UVS7 from JPG images from my digital camera. The pixel "dancing" had returned and I just about fell off my seat. Why? I converted the huge, original JPGs to BMP, tried resizing, changing the project properties and everything I could think of, but the images still shift and dance to my complete bewilderment and aggravation.

Why? What mystery is this? Does anyone have any ideas?

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Ulead Video Studio
Feb 23, 2005 11:29PM PST

I have used Ulead Video Studio 7 to create several wedding video DVDs. I tried adding a slide show to the DVD and saw the same thing you mention.

Pixel dancing is a good description. I described it as shimmering photos.

I never found a solution.

I started using Ulead DVD Picture Show 2 for my slide shows. And it has worked fine.

I have since, switched to ProShow Gold 2.0 and it is the best that I have ever used. It has the Ken Burns' effect and gives you total contol of audio, with Background and Foreground sound.

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Slide Shows
Feb 24, 2005 1:05PM PST

Thanks. I'll try some other workarounds, then perhaps check out the program you mentioned.

I just can't understand why one slide show would turn out fine while another does the "shimmering." It's got to be something about the images, but I can't imagine what..... yet.

Thanks again.

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My guess is that ...
Feb 24, 2005 1:41AM PST

the resolution of the dvd video is not high enough?

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DV
Feb 24, 2005 1:53PM PST

Not there yet. I'm just at the stage of checking the DV-AVI file. Strangely, the sharp, 640 x 480 photos are the ones with the problem, while smaller ones, while not that sharp, are rock-solid in the actual slide show. Can't figure that one out.

I have more experimenting to do.