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ghealy

Canada
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Posted - Mar 03 2010 :  12:14:34  Show Profile  Reply
Just downloaded 5.10. And it works as smoothly as the previous versions. Thanks for continuing to put out a quality product.

I do have a question however. I notice hat when producing the slide show the video dimensions ends up at 640x480. I had thought that DVD was 720x480. But I see no option to allow me to set the output to 720x480.

Am I missing something?

Thanks in advance for youe help.


---Gene

xequte

7504 Posts

Posted - Mar 03 2010 :  13:39:44  Show Profile  Reply
Hi Gene

It should never be 640x480 for DVD format slideshows. Can you give me more details on what you are doing?

Nigel
Xequte Software
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ghealy

Canada
19 Posts

Posted - Mar 03 2010 :  14:29:40  Show Profile  Reply
Nigel,

Suspect my problem was that I had TV aspect set to 4:3 in one of the settings. Changed that to Wide angle and all is now well.

Sorry for my confusion and Thanks

---Gene
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ghealy

Canada
19 Posts

Posted - Mar 03 2010 :  14:45:32  Show Profile  Reply
When creating a YouTube video, the aspect ratio appears to be 640x480. Is there a way to make this wide screen?

---Gene
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xequte

7504 Posts

Posted - Mar 04 2010 :  00:29:09  Show Profile  Reply
Hi Gene

Select the video file option (instead of YouTube) then click Next. On that screen select YouTube compatibility and then change the dimensions to your requirements.

Nigel
Xequte Software
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ghealy

Canada
19 Posts

Posted - Mar 04 2010 :  11:46:44  Show Profile  Reply
Just to make sure I'm understanding correctly, I'll detail my steps.

1. Burn to Disk : Burn Slideshow to Disk
2. Slideshow format: Other Video Format. Click 'Next'
3.a TV Display Options:
TV Format: Standard (NTSC)
Output Quality: Highest
Checked 'Stretch slideshow to match music length
3.b Video Otions:
Format: YouTube compliant video

When Format is 'YouTube compliant', both Video Size and Video Type are greyed out.

If I change Format to 'Custom Format', I can modify size and select type.

Assuming I should use 'Custom' rather than 'YouTube compliant' if I want 720x480 size?

Being a bit of a Noob with all this, which output format would be best to display on YouTube?

Again, thanks for the help, Nigel. It is greatly appreciated.

---Gene
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xequte

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Posted - Mar 05 2010 :  14:48:15  Show Profile  Reply
Hi Gene

Yes, those are the steps. You select "YouTube Compliant" first so it sets the intial YouTube compatibility settings, then select "Custom" and change the video dimensions to your requirements.



Nigel
Xequte Software
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ghealy

Canada
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Posted - Mar 05 2010 :  17:17:54  Show Profile  Reply
Thanks for the help, Nigel.

One last thing, if I may. Is any of the outputs better than the others for YouTube? I liked to be able to manage full 720p quality.

---Gene
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xequte

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Posted - Mar 06 2010 :  00:27:14  Show Profile  Reply
YouTube doesn't really mind what format you supply the video in as it reencodes it anyway. DVD PixPlay achieves best quality with MPEG format, so I would recommend that.

Nigel
Xequte Software
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ghealy

Canada
19 Posts

Posted - Mar 06 2010 :  06:39:59  Show Profile  Reply
Again, Thanks Nigel.

Will give this all a whirl this weekend. Hopefully I'll not need to come back and cry for help again. <grin>

---Gene
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ghealy

Canada
19 Posts

Posted - Mar 07 2010 :  05:58:48  Show Profile  Reply
Just wanted to say thanks for all the help,Nigel. I finally managed to get what I was after. <Smile>

The fruits of my labour can be seen here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XEX9ZxBIYI

Admittedly, the 720p is akin to molasses in February, but PixPlay did allow me to produce a video that YouTube would process as HD.

Again, thanks, for the help and for the great product.

---Gene
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xequte

7504 Posts

Posted - Mar 07 2010 :  21:38:55  Show Profile  Reply
Hi Gene

Your butterfly slideshow is fantastic. Please add a link to it here:

http://www.xequte.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=3625


(But you're right about YouTube serving the 720p versions quite slowly).

Nigel
Xequte Software
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