There are many factors that affect your perception of video quality. Some of these have to do with technical details and some have to do with the basic differences between how video is displayed on a television vs. how it is displayed on a computer monitor.

In most cases, however, Photo to Movie does the work for you and makes sure that your movie is produced with the highest quality possible. Furthermore, lowered quality is frequently a playback issue and doesn't represent the underlying quality of the video.

To fully judge quality, we recommend that you go through the process of producing your movie on its final medium such as DVD shown on a television. Then judge the quality of the final product rather than trying to make an assessment of intermediate video products as produced.

On Windows, the playback quality of video in Windows Media Player can be affected by whether you have hardware acceleration of your video card enabled or not. Generally speaking, enabling hardware acceleration will result in lower quality video playback.

Movies rendered to the QuickTime DV Stream format will not playback as high quality by default. This is normal and does not represent the underlying quality of the data -- only the playback quality. Most movies rendered to other formats are saved with high quality playback enabled.