Tiff or JPEG

[pepegota]

For select photos, I use raw files. If I convert to TIFF, can VS Pro X5 handle it or should I go with JPEG?I

[aljimenez]

From posted Specifications:

http://www.corel.com/corel/product/inde ... 00016#tab4

System Requirements

Microsoft® Windows® 7, Windows Vista® or Windows® XP with latest service packs installed (32-bit or 64-bit editions)
Intel® Core™ Duo 1.83 GHz, AMD Dual-Core 2.0 GHz (multi-core processor recommended)
2 GB RAM (4 GB or higher recommended)
128 MB VGA VRAM or higher (1 GB or higher recommended)
3 GB of free hard drive space
Minimum display resolution: 1024 x 768
Windows®-compatible sound card
Windows®-compatible DVD-ROM drive for installation
Recordable Blu-ray™ drive required for creating Blu-ray™ discs
Internet connection required for online features and tutorial videos
Internet connection may be required to verify the serial number during installation

Input/Output Devices Supported

1394 FireWire® cards for use with DV/D8/HDV™ camcorders
Support for OHCI Compliant IEEE-1394
USB Video Class (UVC) DV cameras
Analog capture cards for analog camcorders (VFW WDM support for Windows XP and Broadcast Driver Architecture support for Windows Vista and Windows 7)
Analog and Digital TV capture devices (Broadcast Driver Architecture support)
USB capture devices: Web cameras and disc/memory/hard drive camcorders
Windows®-compatible Blu-ray™, DVD-R/RW, DVD+R/RW,
DVD-RAM or CD-R/RW drive
Apple® iPhone®, iPad®, iPod classic® with video, iPod touch®, Sony® PlayStation Portable®, Pocket PC, smartphones

Input Formats Supported

Video: AVI, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, AVCHD™, MPEG-4, H.264, BDMV, DV, HDV™, DivX®, QuickTime®, RealVideo®, Windows Media® Format, MOD (JVC® MOD File Format), M2TS, M2T, TOD, 3GPP, 3GPP2
Audio: Dolby® Digital Stereo, Dolby® Digital 5.1, MP3, MPA, WAV, QuickTime, Windows Media® Audio
Images: BMP, CLP, CUR, EPS, FAX, FPX, GIF, ICO, IFF, IMG, J2K, JP2, JPC, JPG, PCD, PCT, PCX, PIC, PNG, PSD, PSPImage, PXR, RAS, RAW, SCT, SHG, TGA, TIF, UFO, UFP, WMF
Disc: DVD, Video CD (VCD), Super Video CD (SVCD)

Some format support may require third-party software.
Output Formats Supported

Video: AVI, MPEG-2, AVCHD, MPEG-4, H.264, BDMV, HDV, QuickTime, RealVideo, Windows Media Format, 3GPP,
3GPP2,WebM, HTML5
Audio: Dolby Digital Stereo, Dolby Digital 5.1, MPA, WAV, QuickTime, Windows Media Audio, Ogg Vorbis
Images: BMP, JPG
Disc: DVD (DVD-Video/DVD-R/AVCHD), Blu-ray Disc™ (BDMV)

Some format support may require third-party software.

[pepegota]

All I want to know is can VS Pro X5 handle Tiff''s, as they are of better quality or should I use Jpeg's? Anybody have experience using them. All those specs are superfluous to me. Thanks for the input anyway.

[BrianCee]

Yes it can - the only relevant bit to you from those specs is :-

Images: BMP, CLP, CUR, EPS, FAX, FPX, GIF, ICO, IFF, IMG, J2K, JP2, JPC, JPG, PCD, PCT, PCX, PIC, PNG, PSD, PSPImage, PXR, RAS, RAW, SCT, SHG, TGA, TIF, UFO, UFP, WMF

So which ever of those gives you the best result then use - but remember when you render out your final video all images are reduced to the same resolution - whatever they were before.

[skier-hughes]

I'd use tif.

[manglwise]

I had read somewhere that PNG's are the prefered still image file type to use in Videostudeo -- don't know what the advantage is.