good digital photo resolution for pan/crop

slambubba wrote on 11/1/2003, 12:48 AM

i have 350 digital photos from our vacation to estes park. these were taken with an olympus c5050 5MP digital camera, which has a resolution of 2560x1920 pixels. i'm going to use pan/crop for making a slideshow of these and was wondering if i should reduce the pixels before putting into the pool? if so, what would be a good size?

the reason i think i should reduce these is the preview is pretty slow. i'm not zooming in a lot on the photos, so i wonder if reducing the image size would help with preview and rendering, w/o losing much quality?

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randy-stewart wrote on 11/1/2003, 2:38 AM

Slambubba,
There are several threads on this topic. Search on Scan Photos to find many. Here is one that will probably answer your question.

http://www.mediasoftware.sonypictures.com/forums/ShowMessage.asp?ForumID=4&MessageID=96643

Hope this helps.
Randy

farss wrote on 11/1/2003, 4:59 AM

What is probably more important than the images size is the file type. Converting them to .png will help a lot. If you're zooming in say to 200% then so long as their resolution is double that of a frame you should be OK.

slambubba wrote on 11/1/2003, 10:04 AM

i'll convert them all to png and see if that helps the fuzzy previews. i'm just using preview quality and it doesn't look too great. i have no problems using good or best quality preview for video.