Scaling video down...

KingVideo wrote on 7/20/2004, 9:36 AM

Hey everyone!

Question:
I have screen captures of a software app at 1280*1024 resolution
I scaled them down using trackmotion to around 640*480 to fit next to a chromakeyed speaker (human... don't know how else to say it, sorry...)
When the video renders out, the screen capture looks blurry and the text is not legible at all.
I was forced to render the capture out in .wmv (HD 720) (I had to trim some parts of the capture down then export it) before putting it in with the speaker subject because it wouldn't render the whole file in .avi DV. It came up with an error saying the file exceeded the allowed size for the format, even though the clip is only 3 min. long.

Any ideas on how I can get a high quality scaledown on this screen capture stuff?? I hope I explained this right... (english=second language, still can't figure out what my first lanquage is... lol)

Thanks!!

Comments

johnmeyer wrote on 7/20/2004, 9:58 AM

See this thread:

Pan/Crop Question

I think you should use Pan/Crop instead of track motion.

Chienworks wrote on 7/20/2004, 9:59 AM

Scaled down and high quality are pretty much exclusive in this case. If you scale the image down you throw out detail. With screen captures any loss of detail makes the image blurry and hard to see.

My suggestion would be to do your screen captures at a much lower resolution, say 800x600 maximum. If you absolutely need the higher resolution then use Pan/Crop to zoom in on specific areas instead of showing the full desktop.