Best settings for still photographs

pagallery · Post by **pagallery** » Sat Nov 04, 2006 10:11 am

Hi

I used VS9 a little sometime ago but haven't used it for about a year - I've been ill and forgotten most of what I knew, so please bear with me if the following are idiotic questions.

I want to put together a video which comprises solely of still photographs -these are either originally digital or have been scanned and are a mixture of jpeg/psd files of varying ppi. I am planning to convert them all to 300ppi and use Photoshop to adjust the sharpness, etc.

What are the optimum capture properties to use (PAL country) - I will have a music track and various overlays etc.

With the jpeg/psd files, does field order matter?

Total running time will be around 10 minutes.

I have to produce about 100 copies of the finished video, 30 of which will be for playing on PCs and the remainder on TVs. I vaguely remember that there were two different settings somewhere. Will I have to create two different video files - one for PCs and one for TV?

I've got the Recommended Procedure printed out to follow (before it was updated for V10).
Thanks.

Screwball · Post by **Screwball** » Sat Nov 04, 2006 12:41 pm

I am not qualified to answer your technical queeries but I can say this:- I have been struggling for a year using Movie clips but using stills is a total breeze! I compile mostly stills with music using UVS9 settings - no problem burning rendering etc. I would not reduce the images to 300 dpi, just leave them at full quality. With regard to PSP, I have used it for years and now for my work infinitely prefer a free google programme called Picasa2.
just enter picasa2 in your search engine and download. The ease of use is amazing, quick and effective.

Post by **Ron P.** » Sat Nov 04, 2006 1:34 pm

Welcome back to the forums, and I hope you are doing much better..

First if you change the resolution of your images to 300 ppi, they will be much smaller then the resolution of your video clip. Since you are in PAL country, the resolution should be 720 x 576. So your photos should be sized/cropped to fit that. However if you are going zoom in on images much, then you would want the resolution of your images to be about 2x that size, so as not to loose quality when zoomed in on.

Now if you were meaning that you were going to change your images to 300 dpi (dots per inch), then that would have no affect on your images in video or being displayed on a monitor. DPI is intended for print medium, not display.

Since you are going create photo slideshows, having no video, then you could use Frame Based for your field order. Photographs are not interlaced like video. I think you will have greater success using Frame Based. If you were to mix video with your images then you would want to use whatever field order your video uses.