Size & Resolution for DVD

[photoartist]

When making EXE files, I know what size to make my still photos.....PowerPoint Size (1024x768) @ 72 dpi.

But....

When I make a DVD that will be played on a TV, what size (in inches or pixels) and what resolution, (dpi) should I make the still photographs? Will JPG's work OK or should I use TIFFS?

What is the ratio - proportion - of a TV? If a picture is 1024 pixels wide, how tall would it be to fill the screen with no clipping?

Thanks !!!

John

[Barry Beckham]

Make them the same size, my experience is that it is better around 1024*768

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[Igor]

If you presentation works in full screen mode, PicturesToExe renders slides as for 1024x768 (and it doesn't depends on real size of screen, you can have 800x600 on display, but PTE will render in 1024x768) and then fit them, into DVD-Video format. This 1024x768 gives the most best quality and details.

If you set windowed size, it will use this resolution for rendering.

[Ken Thomson]

I would have thought that making the original images the same size as the TV format (720 x 576 for PAL, 720 x 480 for NTSC) wold give the sharpest output as there would be no resizing going on. Are you saying that P2E will resize anyway, first up to 1024 x 768, then to a screen fit?

[Igor]

I don't recommend to prepare images in 720x576, because PTE renders in 768x576 for DVD and then DVD encoder reduces slide into 720x576.

It requires special algorithm of proportions of DVD video format.