Importing ProShow Gold into MSP

Sargan wrote on 10/22/2015, 1:35 PM

I have ProShow Gold 7
and MSP 12

I want to create several slide shows, and import them into MSP so I can add suitable music tracks, and then render as wide screen Bluray 1920 x 1080, 50i

This would then go into a Blu-Ray disc with menu driven front end. <text failed details below>

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Steve Grisetti wrote on 10/23/2015, 7:36 AM

Okay. And what do you need help doing?

Sargan wrote on 10/25/2015, 7:12 AM

The input to PSG will be still pictures (resized to 2160 vert resolution), then some some minor pan & zoom motion & tranistion effect - no audio.
I will be collating several of PSG output files into Movie Studio and adding text & music … then ultimately rendering as Blu-Ray 1920 x 1080, 50i
Tested PSG output options …….. some won’t work .. eg MKV, others are poor quality, I’m left with 3 contenders all at 1920x1080 resolution.

For a comparison I used same 30 sec sample … and created each output, to compare filesize & render time – visually I can’t see any difference in image. (that may be just me) The comments next to file size are those on PSG output screen.

MJPEG/MOV file is 367MB (video for external editors)
MPEG2 file is 231MB
H264/MP4 file is 118MB ( video with HIGH profile for use in external editor)

Which would be the best option to use …. File size is irrelevant as this is only an intermediate step, looking for best image quality and suitability for use with Movie Studio.

The media info files for each sample is shown here:
http://www.4shared.com/office/VZpZUW_Zce/media_info.html

Chienworks wrote on 10/25/2015, 9:27 AM

You'll want to use the least compressed output possible. All three of those formats are heavily compressed and do suffer substantial quality loss. Can ProShow Gold output to uncompressed AVI? If not, then the MJPEG/MOV is the least compressed of the options you listed.

Sargan wrote on 10/26/2015, 11:23 AM

The only AVI ones are high compression options.

I know that Movie Studio requires Quicktime to be installed ? ............does that mean using the Quicktime mjpeg option is better?

I know that some formats do not work as well as others in editors, so of the 3 options is either a 'better' editing format ?

Chienworks wrote on 10/26/2015, 6:44 PM

The MJPEG option has two advantages going for it. 1) it's the least compressed of the three options you show, and it's also discrete frame rather than GOP. That makes for more fluid manipulation on the timeline.