I’m using Aperture now to create a slideshow movie which gets authored in iDVD for our clients. We sometimes get images that “strobe” or moire for no obvious reason. They always seem to happen in a group of 3-10, and resizing, or adjusting the images does not seem to help. The activity monitor also hangs for awhile at about 62% of the export and then quickly finishes.
Is Aperture the best solution for creating slideshows that will be burned to DVD? Any other suggestions?
Moire is a screen problem. Check the images that moire at a viewing magnification of 100%. If you see it at 100 magnification then you have images with moire and if not then its the screen redraw. I haven’t seen images moire in years… clothing or tight patterns caused problems at 100% in all channels of PS.
Resizing should help those images…. whats the subject matter?
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It turns out to have something to do with the way the program renders the file. If I try outputting the images for DVD slideshows directly from iPhoto/Aperture/Fotomagico I get the “moire” issue (a flickering related to detailed areas). But if I output the slideshow to ProRes and then import it and author the DVD through Compressor, it resolves the issue. I think it has something to do with the change in pixel shape and the quality of the processing. Subject matter is detailed landscape and the issue shows up in grass and leaves mostly.
Part of the problem could be that iDVD has not been supported by Apple for quite some time. I’m quite sure iPhoto, Aperture and even Fotomagico have been updated multiple times since the last release of iDVD. I would tend to think the weak link is iDVD.
I have created and exported probably several thousand slideshows from Aperture over the past several years … never an issue … though I only authored a few to DVD … saved a mountain directly to DVD as data files though.