Old Photos/Documents

ABIP wrote on 3/27/2008, 8:57 AM

Looking for general advice on using old photos and documents in a Vegas production.

I have a Sony Z7 HD cam for the video footage. Thinking to use a flatbed scanner for old photos and documents. Did this before with standard def.

Anyone have simple guidelines on who best to do this? I can pick up a Cannon LIDE 25 scanner for $49, but what resolution & file type is best to use?

I know from using Premiere in the past, if the resolution and filesize is too high, Premiere couldn't handle it, so you may as well not scan at too high a resolution because you would just have to bump it down.

Thanks!

Jaums

Comments

JJKizak wrote on 3/27/2008, 10:04 AM

One way is to take closeups with the Z7. Of course if you hand hold they are a bit shaky. The scanner is your choice but I use 300/600/1200 dpi (depending on the size) with Adobe Elements/Corel Photopaint and an Epson scanner with Silverfast software. Then the picture is around 5 megs and then I color correct, gamma, fix all the zits, fix the decayed spots with the pen color, and crop. Usually takes about 10 minutes per picture to make it perfect. Then save as jpg which reduces the size to about 500k which Vegas likes. For HDV you want to end up with about 2000 x 2000 picture size (assuming you are using a digital still camera) for doing pans/crops.
JJK

johnmeyer wrote on 3/27/2008, 2:30 PM

Here is an old thread where I presented information on what dpi and resolutions mean when scanning, and how to scan with enough -- but not too much -- resolution for Vegas.

Scanner questions (for photographs)

My main post is the third one down from the top.