Burning Blu-Ray Disc

[Lin Evans]

Hi Carol,

That's good to know! How much image quality degradation does there appear to be when you use greater compression? Does it affect things like animation smoothness, etc.?

Best regards,

Lin

[Carol Steele]

Hi Carol,

That's good to know! How much image quality degradation does there appear to be when you use greater compression? Does it affect things like animation smoothness, etc.?

Best regards,

Lin

It doesn't affect any of the slide transitions which I normally use Lin, but I rarely (if ever) do animations of the Ken Burns type in these slideshows. I suppose the compression algorithm is looking at the static parts of the show and giving greater compression to those areas than the transition areas - things only appear to start deteriorating using compression below around 50%. This on viewing in either a Blu-ray player (via AVCHD format) or HD-DVD (in HVDVD_TS format) and played out to a 46" plasma TV. I might see more of a difference if I were to use an HD projector to view the shows projected onto a large screen (100+").