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July 9th, 2010, 09:27 AM | #1 |
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Photos in 1080i video project
I've built a HD 1080i video project and I'm nesting a photo montage veg into the video project veg. The size of my jpg photos are 3648 x 2736. The entire project will be delivered on a SD DVD for widescreen display and also to tape in HDV.
I've done this before several times but I've never been sure if I'm doing it correctly or optimally.Should the photo montage project properties be set to 1080i? If I set the project properties to 1080i, should I still crop the photos to 16:9? I know I should downsize the photos and convert them to PNGs, but so far on my new PC and Vegas 8.1 I'm not having any problem rendering the jpg images at their full size. Thanks, Dave |
July 10th, 2010, 07:46 AM | #2 |
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Anybody? Does my question make sense?
I forgot to mention I also have the option of using Ultimate-S to crop the photos to match the project aspect ratio. Dave Last edited by David Jasany; July 10th, 2010 at 08:59 AM. |
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I would set the projects to HD to match the print to tape.
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Now if you decide to downsize them, then and only then does it make sense to save them as PNG because downsizing loses some information and saving them to JPEG after that would lose even more. However, I would not downsize them unless Vegas is doing a poor job downsizing them and you have some other software that does it better. Personally, I use a different approach. I shoot all my photos on film and scan them myself with a professional scanner. I scan them to whatever size I need, often to several different sizes/resolutions. That way I get the best scan possible for each different size. But if your photos are digital from scratch and, as you say, Vegas is giving you good results, then keep them the way they are. |
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Thanks Ed, Adam,
What I'm doing currently with the photo montage veg is setting the properties to 1080i. The I use Ultimate-S to crop the images to 1080. Adam, as for setting the properties to progressive, I don't understand how that would work since this project is nested into a 1080i video project. Dave |
July 12th, 2010, 10:09 AM | #6 |
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David, if it works for you, then keep it that way. You can certainly import 1080p files into a 1080i project, so you do not have to prepare it in I but can prepare it in P. But if you are already doing it in I and it works, it is good.
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