Newbie Question - Photo Montage - what size?

slk2k wrote on 10/30/2006, 9:47 PM
OK, Newbie alert ...

Using Ulimate Sv2 in Vegas 7. What size should the photos be resized to before pulling them in? Originals are all sized 3456x2304x350DPI (24 bit). I know that's *way* overkill for
video, so what to make it to help Vegas in rendering?
650x480 (read that somewhere) or 720x480?

I am using the motion affects provided by Ultimate S in case that matters ((track effects I believe).

Thanks!!
Shawn

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busterkeaton wrote on 10/30/2006, 10:27 PM
Ultimate S uses Pan and Crop to animate still photos.


I would set the files to twice the size of DV, 1440 X 960 and do a test with just a couple of files in Ultimate S and see how you like the results. This should be plenty if you are not doing massive zoom ins.

If you zoom into a photo, the resulting crop will be blown up to 720x480, so you need at least 720 pixels wide for it not to look bad. If you want to see what I am talking about, zoom in on a piece of DV footage and see how bad it looks.
UlfLaursen wrote on 10/30/2006, 11:22 PM
Thanks...

I was wondering the same thing ;-)

/Ulf
slk2k wrote on 10/31/2006, 4:19 AM
Not a lot of zooms per photo so 2x sounds good to me. I'll try a couple and see.

Thanks!!
JohnnyRoy wrote on 10/31/2006, 4:30 AM
Yea, double resolution is usually what is recommended. I do photo montages all the time and it seems to also keep rendering times down. Don't forget, your output is 720x480 so any resizing that Vegas has to do will slow down the render. Very large images can use lots more memory and really increase the render time so I always shoot for 1440x960.

~jr
Chienworks wrote on 10/31/2006, 9:13 PM
Or, more accurately, the output frame size is equivalent to 654.5454x480 square pixels, and undoubtedly your still images use square pixels. So shoot for 1309x960, not 1440x960.

Although, in the long run, it doesn't really matter a hill o' beans. Vegas will handle just about anything you toss at it properly.
bevross wrote on 11/1/2006, 5:28 AM
When I 'save as' a png file in Photoshop a box pops up where you're supposed to check if you want Interlaced or Not. Does this matter? I check interlaced 'cause the end result will be interlaced but perhaps the Vegas timeline wants non-interlaced?
rs170a wrote on 11/1/2006, 7:01 AM
I generally leave it non-interlaced (the default) and I've never had any problems.

Mike