Hello Friends,

I've recently completed my first short movie and during the making of this movie I learned lots of stuff but there are some things I'm still not sure about and I think it would be to great ask from you experienced people out there in the field how should I go about it in future.

Here is what I did...

I worked on a stop motion movie and took all the pictures using Cannon Rebel XT at 3456 x 2304 resolution which I later converted to 720 x 480 using kigo image converter and assembled them into avi(720 x 480) using virtual dub. I've put the finished movie on PAL dvd and it plays great on my computer and 4:3 TV.

My question is: Do you think I should have gone with higher resolution like 900 x 600 when converting the image size and created an avi out of this higher resolution.

Other thing I want to know is what image size should I create in the graphics program if I want to use it along the footage in my editor at 4:3

It would be great if you guys can answer these question and help me learn more so that I can adjust my future work flow for optimum output.

Thanks.

There is a website dedicated to stop motion and which covers a lot of the questions you are asking, if I've got what you are asking correctly.

StopMotionAnimation.com (http://stopmotionanimation.com)

If you are working down to PAL, then 720 or 768 X 576 is more usual

Adrian

Thanks Adrian, I'll check it out over there...

If you resize your pictures BEFORE bringing them into your NLE, you're locked to that reduced resolution.

There is a dying software out there, called Imaginate, which will import your stills at original resolution and lets you manipulate them pretty much any way you want WITHOUT reducing the resolution - does that only at final export.

Unfortunately Canopus stopped development on it a long time ago, but you might still be able to pick up a copy some place. It's also the best software for slide show to video.

Get the free demo and evaluate it! Imaginate 2.0 (http://desktop.grassvalley.com/products/Imaginate/index.php)