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    On the "Making Your Photos Look Great with Photoshop Elements" DVD, two top Photoshop gurus show the best techniques for refining, retouching, and printing digital camera photos and scanned images. Tap into the power of Photoshop Elements and learn how to make your pictures perfect.

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Photoshop Elements 3 VCD/Slideshow quality woes?

Have you created a VCD using PSE3 and found that the quality is crappy? The problem with VCD format is its resolution and video bit rate. Images are down-sampled to 352x240 and constant video bit rate is set to 2000 kbps during the WMV encoding process. When the VCD is played on a television, the 352x240 images are displayed in full-screen mode and you lose the quality of the image.

The Elements 3.0 slideshow, which is based on WMV and VCD spec, is very strict about how the movie file is encoded for VCD purposes. The reason for low video bit rate is that VCD was originally intended to display 1 hour of video on a 650MB CD. The higher the resolution size and video bit rate, the larger the individual movie file on VCD. If you feel adventurous, you can increase the bit rate by editing the existing VCD NTSC Output.prx file, but that gets pretty technical and you don't want to dig yourself into a hole you can't get yourself out of.

Album 2.0 is a little different in as it is merely wrapping creations to PDF. Images are not down-sampled to 352x240 and it is not encoded in VCD movie file. It's merely a PDF creation with a movie file on a CD.

Posted by on February 03, 2005 at 10:43 AM in Photoshop Elements |

Comments

ron packard

I had my first experience with burning a slide show using Photoshop Elements 3, and the results were very poor. What solutions are there? Use a DVD burning software, such as Pinnocle? Thanks, Ron

Posted by: ron packard | August 28, 2005 at 04:57 PM

James T. Adkins

After editing pictures on Elements 3.O, pictures look fantastic going into custom slide show. results heavy pixelation. tried adjusting resolution, no luck. although, same pictures on simple slide show look great.

Posted by: James T. Adkins | October 04, 2005 at 06:28 PM

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