Why do my photo's look like crap on a TV made with iMovie/iDVD?
I put together some nice Christmas pictures I had taken with my Digital Rebel in iMovie. I exported it to iDVD, rendered it, and burned it to a DVD and man, the quality of picture sucked. I was really disappointed with the picture quality on my tv (~30" TV).
Is this normal or do I have to adjust some setting to improve quality?
Is this normal or do I have to adjust some setting to improve quality?
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Furthermore, what format did you burn them on? JPEG, TIFF, PNG?
really looks great.
I did the export to iDVD thing too. The porcess worked great, but the pictures look horrible on screen. :-(
HDTV's have better output capability, but they use interpolation to get the results when using non-HDTV sources. The formulas for this are well tuned to motion, but tend to fall apart on still pictures.
Does that knowledge change anything?
How come movies look exceptionally clear? Star Wars is mind blowing clear.
How come movies look exceptionally clear? Star Wars is mind blowing clear.
One last thing, they even look bad on my 20" monitor. Is there a way to make a video that will come out in QT format for high resolution? At least that way I can get a good presentation on computer screens.
Originally posted by aplnub
I did the export to iDVD thing too. The porcess worked great, but the pictures look horrible on screen. :-(
Eric, you should check the iMovie and iDVD folders in the Apple Discussion Forum. One of the things that's mentioned is do NOT export your finished movie from iMovie to iDVD. Instead, make a new project in iDVD, then import the .mov file using iDVD->File->Import->Video. This causes iDVD to render the project rather than iMovie and the results are supposed to be better.
One nice thing about the big price drop in blank DVDs is that we can now do test burns without feeling we're throwing a buck away each time.
Even the titles in iMove look like crap on the screen.
Originally posted by aplnub
Not to sound too stupid, but do you think using FCP HD would make any difference whatsoever? I have it and am learning to use it. Just never thought I would use it for something so simple.
Even the titles in iMove look like crap on the screen.
Eric
Which screen do you mean now? Computer screen or TV screen?
Titles within iMovie on computer screen look somewhat low end
But they are greatly improved after beeing rendered.
In general i can not second your results, mostly, my iMovie footage
looks pretty great, almost professional. Don't expect the same "Crispness"
with Tv Screens compared to Computer Screens.
As someone else pointed out, Computer Monitors almost always display Movies in higher resolution than Tv Monitors ever could so.
Thanks for all the comments. I will try and investigate more and report back something.
Originally posted by Vox Barbara
Which screen do you mean now? Computer screen or TV screen?
Titles within iMovie on computer screen look somewhat low end
But they are greatly improved after beeing rendered.
In general i can not second your results, mostly, my iMovie footage
looks pretty great, almost professional. Don't expect the same "Crispness"
with Tv Screens compared to Computer Screens.
As someone else pointed out, Computer Monitors almost always display Movies in higher resolution than Tv Monitors ever could so.
I mean if you're in the states, double check that your projet in iMovie AND iDVD are set to NTSC. If you are in Europe, it should be set in PAL.
TV system conversion get very losy results in low-end software...
my 2cents
Originally posted by admactanium
i haven't checked recently but the "ken burns effect" pretty much ruined all images that it touched. in order to make the effect work it seems to rough render the images, thereby losing all the quality. if you used ken burns effect it might have made them look worse.
It is a poor craftsman who blames his tools.
Originally posted by aplnub
I would like to report that iMovie and iDvd make crappy looking pictures in a slideshow compared to DVD Studio Pro 3. I have yet to try iMovie and iDVD HD but I will and report back.
i was going to respond to earlier comments, but you're sort of arriving at this answer already. movies you buy, especially ones like star wars, are compressed with state of the art technologies. DVD Studio Pro 3 gives you much more control over rendering than iDVD, so it's no surprise that encodes from that look better than those from iLife apps. There's a lot more to this answer, but that's all I have time for right now.
Originally posted by aplnub
I would like to report that iMovie and iDvd make crappy looking pictures in a slideshow compared to DVD Studio Pro 3. I have yet to try iMovie and iDVD HD but I will and report back.
i was going to respond to earlier comments, but you're sort of arriving at this answer already. movies you buy, especially ones like star wars, are compressed with state of the art technologies. DVD Studio Pro 3 gives you much more control over rendering than iDVD, so it's no surprise that encodes from that look better than those from iLife apps. There's a lot more to this answer, but that's all I have time for right now.
Originally posted by ipodandimac
i was going to respond to earlier comments, but you're sort of arriving at this answer already. movies you buy, especially ones like star wars, are compressed with state of the art technologies. DVD Studio Pro 3 gives you much more control over rendering than iDVD, so it's no surprise that encodes from that look better than those from iLife apps. There's a lot more to this answer, but that's all I have time for right now.
When you get time to post more, I am all ears. Very few people seem to realize there is a difference. I believe this is because most don't have DVD Studio Pro.
Originally posted by OldCodger73
Eric, you should check the iMovie and iDVD folders in the Apple Discussion Forum. One of the things that's mentioned is do NOT export your finished movie from iMovie to iDVD. Instead, make a new project in iDVD, then import the .mov file using iDVD->File->Import->Video. This causes iDVD to render the project rather than iMovie and the results are supposed to be better.
One nice thing about the big price drop in blank DVDs is that we can now do test burns without feeling we're throwing a buck away each time.
You mean, you go to iDVD and import the .mov file within your iMovie project?