LeoR

Thank you but I belong to the "ODD BALL CLUB" with an Olympus EM5 16 MP camera. Cheers anyway, Leo

Thank you Dave. My camera has a 16 MB sensor so I will experiment today with the various quality settings.I was under the impression that I should save to the highest quality possible but perhaps that was wrong because the PTE rendering software would have to do a lot more resizing giving a lot more artifacts in the finished pictures ??? Thanks, Leo

Thank you Yachtsman1. Your reply definitely makes it much clearer. I just checked my camera settings and it does have several aspect ratios including 16:9. Unfortunately I had mine set to 4:3 and took all 800 + photos during my recent vacation to Germany at that ratio. I guess I will have to live with it for those 800 photos but I will experiment today with cropping some of them to 16:9 and see the result although I suspect that too much of the pictures will be cropped out. Thanks, Leo

Thanks for the reply. I have been able to burn a DVD with the trial version but I did not know if I used the optimum file sizes so that is the reason for my query.Could you please explain "check the screen shots". I am sorry for asking what may appear to be dumb questions. I am still puzzled by what size I should convert mt camera files to. Are you suggesting that I make the width to 1920 and let the height fall where it may? Thanks, Leo

I was hoping to burn DVD discs so I could loan or give them to friends and family members to view on their TV- most of them have HD wide format TVs. In that case what size and resolution photo files would you recommend? Also i forgot to ask-Can PTE burn to Blu-Ray media? Leo

I am thinking of switching from a competing slide file program and will download the trial version of PTE. To be able to properly evaluate the program, I would like some advice on the quality of files I should use. I always shoot in Raw mode and convert my photos using Lightroom. I am aware that higher quality output would be using Blu-Ray but for now I will be using standard DVD output. The slide show will be viewed on a HD TV with 16:9 format. My camera has a 4:3 format so I can create any size jpeg files such as: 1280 x 960, 1900 x 1425, 2320 x 1736 etc. These can be 180 px/inch allthe way up to 330 px/inch. So my question is what size and resolution do you recommend for DVD output and would that change when I burn to Blu-Ray. Thanks in advance, Leo Reinhard