16x9 Video with Still Images

rjmchugh · Post by **rjmchugh** » Wed Nov 21, 2007 10:30 pm

Currently working on a sports highlight and I'm having trouble getting the sizing of images to display correctly on the Video. All of the Video in the project is SD 16x9. What is the correct image size I should be working with. I can control the size because I will be putting collages using PhotoImpact 11. Any help would be appreciated

heinz-oz · Post by **heinz-oz** » Wed Nov 21, 2007 10:46 pm

Crop the images to a 16:9 ratio, around the size of your video frames. I would save these as bmp rather than jpeg after finishing them in PI but other formats will also work.

rjmchugh · Post by **rjmchugh** » Wed Nov 21, 2007 10:52 pm

OK..However when defining the canvas size in PhotoImpact what is the correct equivelent to the SD 16x9 in video studio?

heinz-oz · Post by **heinz-oz** » Wed Nov 21, 2007 11:15 pm

That depends on your source material. What is the frame size of your video?

I guess you are in the US and, hence, work with NTSC video. 16:9 can even be 720 x 480 (non square pixels). If you insert an image with that frame size, it will be shown stretched horizontally.

I must admit, I have no experience with 16:9 aspect video. You need to experiment a little to get it right. Your image width should be 1.78 x image hight to be proper 16:9 aspect. Test how that looks in a little test project.

rjmchugh · Post by **rjmchugh** » Wed Nov 21, 2007 11:21 pm

Great suggestion, thanks for your help

AlphaDood · Post by **AlphaDood** » Fri Nov 23, 2007 6:42 am

I was recently doing a project with 16x9 video and inserting stills into the video. What I found was with the stills I needed to first resize the still to 1024 pixels wide keeping the vertical proportional. Then I cropped the vertical to 576 pixels. This gives me the width I want to match the 16x9 video and the correct vertical dimension with out giving a stretched distortion on the still picture. I saved the resized and cropped to a JPG and it looked fine in the finished product.

rjmchugh · Post by **rjmchugh** » Tue Nov 27, 2007 10:49 pm

I have been doing some testing but with no luck. In my testing I was actually saving a frame of the video as a still image, so that I could achieve the effect of "stop action" in the video stream. When the video played and got to the part were the still image was, the image appear to get larger. I will continue to play with the still image. If anyone else has tried to produce a "stop image" in their video, I would like to hear how you got it done.

heinz-oz · Post by **heinz-oz** » Tue Nov 27, 2007 11:00 pm

I have not done this but a few things need to be watched.

Firstly, if your still is saved from the video itself, do not alter any of its dimensions. For best results, I would save the image as a bitmap to ensure there is no additional compression taking place. If the image has the same frame dimensions as the video, how can there be distortion?

Trevor Andrew · Post by **Trevor Andrew** » Wed Nov 28, 2007 9:26 pm

rjmchugh wrote:I have been doing some testing but with no luck. In my testing I was actually saving a frame of the video as a still image, so that I could achieve the effect of "stop action" in the video stream. When the video played and got to the part were the still image was, the image appear to get larger. I will continue to play with the still image. If anyone else has tried to produce a "stop image" in their video, I would like to hear how you got it done.

Hi

Select the frame to copy,

Switch to ¡¥Project Playback Mode¡¦

Use Tools ¡V Save Current Frame as Image

That should save the image at the correct frame size
Right click on the saved image to check its size.

Hope that Helps

(If you intend to insert your own images, use an aspect of 16:9
For Pal use 1024 x 576)