How to make better looking slideshows when exporting to WMV

[RJ Johnston]

When you export your slideshow to WMV in Premiere Elements 3.0.2, you can make your images look better if you go into Advanced Settings and change the Keyframe Interval to match the length of each still on the timeline. By default stills have a length of 5 seconds, and so does the Keyframe Interval for WMV. Coincidence?

If you create a slideshow where the length of each still is 10 seconds, then change the Keyframe Interval to 10 seconds. If the stills vary in length, then change the Keyframe Interval to 100 seconds. If the keyframe interval is set to 1 second, you will see "burps" every second unless your stills are also 1 second.

For a DV-AVI that I have, using a Keyframe Interval of 100 seconds produced the best WMV.

You can also make your images match the quality that Windows Movie Maker produces by using the Sharpen Effect on stills and video. Use a value of 16.

That's the significant part of what I posted over on the Adobe Premiere Elements Forum. Someone was asking for help with exporting to WMV.

[Vera S]

Thanks for sharing with us.

What's your opinion about the best resolution of fotos to work with?

[RJ Johnston]

Premiere Elements 3 does not resize photos very well. Make sure to turn off Scale To Frame Size and resize them with the Motion effect.

If your images are 640x480 NTSC or 640x576 PAL, Premiere Elements won't do any scaling with or without Scale to Frame Size.

If you want to pan and zoom, then 1024x760 is sufficient for standard NTSC and 1086 x 816 for PAL. That allows for 200% zoom. If your camera produces images that are 1024x768 or 1280x960, I wouldn't go to the trouble of resizing them before bringing them in to Premiere Elements 3. Just turn off Scale to Frame Size and resize them with the Motion effect.

If you need to match the size of stills with the size of a D1/DV frame, then use the recommendations Adobe gives in Help: If you’re combining the image with DV-NTSC footage, use a frame size of 720 x 534. For D1-NTSC, use a frame size of 720 x 540; for D1/DV-PAL, use a frame size of 768 x 576. Those are square pixels.

Does that help?

[Vera S]

I'm sorry, my answer is very late - but I'm just starting the project this time.

There is just another question:

where do I find the option to change keyframe intervalls? I am using the german version and didn't find... maybe I have tomatoes on my eyes...

Perhaps anyone may just name the register...

Thanks for your help!

[RJ Johnston]

Hi,

File > Export > Windows Media... > click the Advanced... button > click the Video tab > scroll down to the bottom. "Keyframe interval" is between "Decoder Complexity" and "Buffer Size."

[Vera S]

Thanks for your help, that's it.