New slideshow for DVD

[Gregg Kimball]

I'm starting to put together a slideshow + video of a trip we recently took to Alaska. It will be full screen NTSC and the actual video clips are few. What is the best size and resolution to format my photos before I bring them into PE4 I have a lot of pictures and I need to keep the project size small enough for a single DVD. Also does jpg vs. psd make a big difference in picture quality on a TV.
Thanks,
Gregg

[Steve Grisetti]

1000x750 pixels is a good size for your photos. (DPI or PPI is irrelevant. Only the size, in pixels, matters.)

Video resolution is only 640x480, so your photos are never going to look as clean and detailed on TV as they do in their native form. But 1000x750 is close enough to get you that resolution, allow for some panning and zooming and still not gum up your system.

You probably won't see any difference in the quality of a PSD and a JPEG in your video either. Yes, a JPEG averages some pixels around the details (depending on how much you compress it) but, at 640x480, it won't be at all noticeable.

[Gregg Kimball]

Thanks Steve,
Now I can start resizing about 300 photos, those are the picks we came up with out of 1,785 that my wife and I managed to take in two weeks.
BTW what does the check mark in the circle next to the topics mean?
Gregg

[Steve Grisetti]

It means that there are new posts under that topic you haven't yet read.

[Steve Grisetti]

BTW, there's a fast way to resize your photos. In fact, this saves the resized ones to a new location so you can keep the originals in native resolution.

In Photoshop Elements, go to File/Process Multiple Files.

Set it up to save the new photos to a new location.

Set it to resize, check the option to constrain proportions and set the height to 750. (No need to set width.)

Then just browse to the folder where you photos are and let 'er rip!