I did some testing today of Pixelan's Pan/Zoom PRO Wizard and Movie Maker,
using the biggest picture yet, a panoramic composite of over a dozen 10
megapixel pictures from my Nikon D40x that were auto-stitched together using
Photoshop CS3. The composite image is a healthy 15,870 x 4,740 pixels (75
megapixels) which was handled easily by the Pixelan Pan/Zoom Pro tool and
Movie Maker.

I made 3 test files...

- the first was a wmv file saved by MM2.1 in XP. I noticed it didn't quite
play smoothly. Going through it one frame at a time with VirtualDub MPEG, I
saw that during panning it was essentially changing position at every other
frame, so it was like watching a 15 fps video instead of the usual 30 fps.

- the second test was to make a DV-AVI file first from MM2.1 and then use it
as the source file to make the same wmv. That resulted in a smoother playing
file with the position changing each frame.... but making it interlaced and
then deinterlacing to get the wmv file wasn't as good as making it right the
first time.

- I turned to my Vista Home Basic laptop for the 3rd test. The Pixelan
Pan/Zoom settings files are usable on either XP or Vista. The published wmv
file shows what you expect, appropriate changes in positions at each frame.

The 3 clips (about 1 minute each) are on this channel at vimeo, one I use
for the Pixelan Pan/Zoom PRO test files. You'll be watching Flash files made
from the wmv files, but you're free to download the original wmv files to
check them yourself.

http://www.vimeo.com/PapaJohnTestClips

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PapaJohn (MVP)