How Video Factory handles graphics?

EricK wrote on 7/3/2001, 6:02 PM
Does anyone know how Video Factory handles graphics? I am trying to produce a short clip using still photographs and music. I am using .BMP format scanned at 72dpi and formatted to 400 x 300. The manual does not recommend JPEG as they are already compressed.
What I would like to know is what is the best resolution for photographs and what happens when they are rendered as a finished production.

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chriselkins wrote on 7/3/2001, 7:05 PM
EricK,

Video Factory handles graphics better than you ever wished!

I'd say scan at at LEAST 640X480 by 72dpi. (If not bigger--)

No matter how large you scan, once you enter any images into VF they will be rendered down to 72 dpi as will be anything rendered to be seen on TV or a computer screen.

One catch as opposed to Vegas: Once you drag and drop your images into the timeline they will default to 5 seconds each. It's no big deal to hit the UP arrow to zoom in on the timeline and trim them.

JPEGS taken at 640 X 480 X 72 have been good for me so far! TV res is slightly wider, and DV res is wider still, but I think you'll be just fine for your project, or better, using this.

If you have the patience, you can download my very, very first Sonic Foundry Video Factory edited video, using a whole lot of 640x480x72 (jpeg) images. I took the pictures--all the stills--using my old outdated Sony Mavika, which only takes very low res 640X480 shots.

You can take a look/see at www.chriselkins.com. Select the "my vids" option. This site is not open officially, so don't be too critical! All the vids were edited on VF!



I downloaded VF out of desperation after much frustration trying to use AVID Express to edit this Vid at University of Texas at Arlington.

JPEGS are fine, so long as you don't use ones that have been opened, edited, saved, opened again, edited saved, and so forth. Your initial JPEGs from you own scans will work just fine in VF!

I hope I have helped.
Chris
EricK wrote on 7/3/2001, 7:40 PM
Chris, thank you for your very informative reply. The info on VF rendering photo images at 72dpi regardless of the size of source file was the info I have been looking for.
ScottP wrote on 7/4/2001, 12:29 AM
Very cool Chris!!
The sounds were great too!
I gave you a B knowing you will do even better soon!
SonyEPM wrote on 7/5/2001, 8:43 AM
If you are using static stills, and outputting them to DV (NTSC), create the stills as 655x480. This maps almost perfectly to the DV pixel aspect of .9091 (all this means is that a circle in photoshop will look like a circle in Vegas if you do this).

If you want "Ken Burns style" zooming on stills, then make the stills bigger, like 1200x950 or something bigger than the project- you can zoom right in with little if any degradation.