Hello PapaJohn

I stumbled upon this site a couple days ago while looking for a replacement for Stage6. I saw one of John Lauwers HD videos on another site and decided to check out the link, especially on discovering it was a PS3 video. I've been experimenting with the program and found it an amazingly easy to use program.

BTW, I checked out your website last night and it appears you are one of the video guru's in here. Looks like I hung my hat in the right place ;-)

I'm still trying to find my way around this site. Eventually ..........

I posted a spreadsheet in my channel with calculations for resizing images for PS3. Maybe if you could take a peek and check it for accuracy. And if you wish to use it, then go ahead. If it is suitable, you can publish it at your option since I discovered you are the expert.

I hope to redo it in VB when I have an opportunity.

And isn't Hawaii a great place. Feels like home, but different enough to be foreign. And the laid back feeling was what I tried to convey in the video.

Have a good evening.

Ted

Hi Ted... I added your video to the PhotoStoryMagic channel, and looked at your calculator.

Wouldn't you know it... there's width and height... you encourage users to cut down on width to achieve widescreen while I encourage them to increase the height.

Either way gets you there... I find the better approach will vary depending on the number of pixels in the starting images and what pan/zoom motion settings you'll be using.

Welcome to the channel... as you title your own channel as a travel one, I'm thinking of starting a new channel myself for our travel stories and movies.

I'm using Trip Advisor now for my travel flicks, but vimeo quality blows away anything there or at YouTube.

Hello PapaJohn

Thanks for your comments.

John Lauwers made a similar observation regarding increasing height rather than reducing width. Excellent point, especially for images already pixel deprived. When shrinking, I recommend using the highest quality image available.

If pixels are added prior to PS3 rendering, distorted images can be further enhanced using photo enlargement software such as Imaginer by Kneson, as long as the image is 300dpi or better.

I once tried Imaginer software and it worked quite well for the intended purpose. I haven't tried it in conjunction with PS3 so I am unable to comment on any improvement. However for the perfectionist, I expect there may be some potential benefit in tweaking the enlarged image in preparation for height reduction by PS3 during rendering.

imagener.com/index2.html for information on their bit twiddling software,

If anyone’s interested, I’ll do another spreadsheet or modify this one in a few days to incorporate an alternate method of stretching the height for anybody concerned about potential loss of quality using the width reduction method.

I am moderator on another forum and, since several low quality videos were heading over to YouTube, I published this spreadsheet to try and generate interest in quality videos using DivX format, hosted by Stage6.

I visited your website last night and noticed you have quite a lot published on PS3 and movie making. It’s a great site. I also discovered you were listed on Microsoft’s Expert Zone. I wasn’t aware of the extent of expert advice available on this site when I joined a couple days ago.

Thanks again

Ted

Thanks Ted...

My wife is the Photoshop expert in our house... she uses Extensis for pixel-adding situations. I don't go to that extreme, just resizing the source images with IrfanView. But I do run the pix through Bernadette sometimes... depending on the story.

On that score, I wait until the story is complete before giving her the pictures... so we're limiting the work to only those pix that make it to the final production. I pull copies of the images from the project file, get them enhanced, and then put them back.

Hello John

I stumbled upon this site a couple days ago while looking for a replacement for Stage6. I saw one of your HD videos on another site and decided to check out the link, especially on discovering it was a PS3 video.

I've been playing with PS3 for a little while and have been promoting it on another forum.

Interesting what can be achieved with such an easy to use program.

Looks like lots of PS3, MM and video making expertise on this site that I would like to tap into.

It will take me some time but I will eventually get to know my away around this site. And I'm sure I will make many mistakes along the way. :-)

Yeah, at your option, go ahead and include my Hawaii video in the PhotoStoryMagic channel.

Have a good evening.

Ted

Hello PapaJohn

Thanks for your comments.

Matching the video and audio took a little effort but PhotoStory3 makes it all quite easy.

I used Audacity to incorporate the aircraft sounds and make the sound track. Various sounds are available from sounddogs.com/ . Thirty seconds can be downloaded at no charge.

I did an audio reversal at the end for engine startup.

Thanks again.

Ted

I always wondered why anyone would reverse an audio clip.... now I know. Neat idea.