They are just paper prints. I tried the scanner but it didn't seem to give me the quality. Yes a tripod and a camera remote work very well. I guess I was looking for some magical way of getting them to vegas or maybe something to purchase to make thing easier. Thanks for your advice.

I scan all photographs at 300 dpi and get great results plus the ability to zoom in and scan across the photos.

I must be doing something wrong when scanning, when i trying match to output the picture looks like I have zoom in too far and it takes all the extra time to fix. Sometime I do over a hundred pictures at a time. Thanks

When you drop it on the timeline, it should resize to fit whichever is the largest direction. So, if you have a tall, skinny, picture, you will have black lines down the sides but the top to bottom will be full. Then, use Track Motion to zoom in on the picture and everything should be fine. I use Track Motion to pan across a picture more often than Event Pan/Crop. Haven't yet tried 3D-LE for this but plan to very soon.

Thanks I will try that.

Hi Tink,

I scan pictures on a Canon scanner at 300 or 150 dpi depending on whether I need to pan or how large the orginal is and they work well. You want to let the optical part of the scanner help you get the picture to as close to the size you need as possible rather than resizing in a picture editing program. You also don't want the pictures to be too sharp or they won't look as good on video (on paper you want them sharp on video you need a little blur to cut the rough edges). A lot depends on where you're going to run the final video though. If you are running on a TV then the blur is appropriate. If you're running on a computer you would want them as clear as possible because the compression will blur them for you (not that you'd want this, but it always seems to happen).

Tom

I am scanning a lot of pictures and the pictures that are professional look like crap once scanned - I am guessing from the little bumps on them. How can I get them to look good on video.

My scanning software has an option to correct for newspaper, magazine, and "art magazine". By using these options, it will automatically correct for that situation. I use the Microtek Scanmaker software.

Always scan at a high resolution. Problem many people have is the scanner defaults to a low resolution. With a 4x5 picture, you get a really crappy image. insure the final picture is high res - at least 800x600 pixels or more. Vegas will reduce the size when doing a slide show.

Also if you use JPEG, select high quality. Best for Windows is a BMP. That is uncompressed where a JPEG is compressed and can cause loss of quality. I suppose PNG would be an excellent choice, too. Avoid GIF.

I've scalled new, old, color, b&w, professional, cheap... photos and insuring the resolution is high makes them all come out OK. Change resolution of scanner depending on size of the photo. The higher the better. You can always reduce resolution if the file is too big, but can't increase it if the picture looks bad.

After scanning, I usually run them through PhotoShop to adjust brightness, contrast and do any minor color adjustments. For those with it - use the LEVELS adjustment manually. Auto-Levels rarely gives the nest result. Then sometimes I also use CURVES or VARIATIONS.

Do all panning and most cropping in Vegas. Best to start out with more picture than you need as you can crop. With too little picture (cropped too much when scanning) you can have too little border and the important part of the image gets outside of the "safe area".

I've had results so good this way that people don't think I produced the slide show.