I was trying to make a slideshow on windows movie maker but the pictures were blurry.Can anyone help me please

Answer 1

This can get pretty technical so I will try to help the best I can.
Raw images from a camera, or other source come in at a certian resolution and size. Generally speaking the larger the picture size the better the quality. If you are forced to make them smaller to fit because of the size of the file you will loose quality.
TIFF files are normally the best to use in this instance because you dont loose the quality like you do with JPEG files.
That being said if you are using a Photo Program and you are transfering like you explain I will do this example.
Your photo is 8X10 and is 75 dpi when you make it a 2X4 at 75 dpi it may blurr.
But if you have the ability to up the DPI with a photo program this will not allow them to blurr but it will make the file sizes double in a hurry and thus use up a lot more space.
If on the other hand your raw stock photo's are from a camera that allows to to up the dpi before shooting this will help, 144dpi works well
Like I said this can get hairy, I could go on and on about the do's and don'ts.
Don

Answer 2

Windows movie maker is a VERY basic editor, and people often complain about blurry output.

What format did you output to ? If you output to 1 format (anything other than MPG2) and then have to convert again to DVD coding, you will lose quality.

Better option is to use a real program that works well.

www.magix.net and have a look at their software. They have "movie edit pro" a fully features video editing suite ( I use this to produce DVDs) also they have a lower end one designed for putting photos into slideshows "Photos on CD/DVD" I think it's called.

Good luck

Answer 3

This happens to me alot! I know how you feel... What Iknow is that the larger the pictuer the better the qulaty (not as blury) the smaller the wors of quality... eg. a pictur is 1.5-2.0+MB the better, 1.0- MB less better. Almost all picturs that go through Movie Maker are all ways bulry.