potwnc Posted December 3, 2003 Report Share Posted December 3, 2003 I just tried my first AVI output and DVD burn using beta #2. A few comments:1) my jpegs are 800x600. I want to maintain that aspect ratio in the AVI and DVD. When I play the AVIin Media Player, and also when I play the DVD on my player connected to my (4:3) TV, there is a thickblack border around the images. The 4:3 aspect ratio is maintained, but the images don't occupy 800x600pixels on my computer monitor and do not fill my TV screen. Is this intentional or am I doing something wrong?2) The images look great on my TV but are washed out when I play the show from the same DVD on mycomputer - it's like the image brightness went up about 500%. Again, am I doing something wrong?3) The volume level on TV playback is much louder than with store-rented DVDs. When I play the AVI in Media Player the volume is at the same level as when I "play" the original .exe file.4) I'd like to post smaller (200x150 pixel) samples on my web site. When I select that size for custom AVIthe AVI file is still as big as when I output to an 800x600 AVI file. Surely it should be much, much smaller insize? Would I have to resize all the original images to 200x150 to do what I want to do? If so, what is thepoint of having a custom size option?5) If I want to burn, say, 5 shows to a DVD as 5 "scenes selections (chapters)" do I really have to have 5 instances of PTE open on my computer? I can see the reason for having 1 instance of PTE running, but why can't I just copy the first 4 AVI files to a new directory, render the 5th AVI file to that directory and then just keep one PTE running while I mpeg2 encode and burn (I'm using Roxio Easy CD/DVD 6). I am a user interfacedesigner by training and I guarantee that the official release of this version will get bad reviews because ofthis if the user really must run 5 versions of PTE at the same time.I don't want the above to sound negative! I think Igor et al. have done a great job here and pleaseunderstand the above as the feedback of a beta tester only. Video output has long been my #1 priorityand I believe that with good beta testing PTE will kill the competition!!!Ray Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
photock Posted December 4, 2003 Report Share Posted December 4, 2003 Igor:Question....I created a show...then deleted all the files.....all I have now is the exe show. Is there going to be a way to change the existing exe show to a DVD playable format?Thanks Craig Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marcovelo Posted December 5, 2003 Report Share Posted December 5, 2003 Hi Craig,Welcom to the forum !The answer to your question is... no ! (unless you use a hardware MPEG2 encoder card, not related to PTE specificaly and quite expensive).Please keep a backup of your original source file .pte in a safe place.Marco Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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