Show Document in video

BucWild! wrote on 9/5/2006, 11:26 AM

I have what may be a very basic question but I am new to Vegas and running into difficulty. I have a document that I would like to display during my video but when I converted it to jpg format the quality was horrific. Is there a way to get this image into Vegas so that it isn't all pixelated?

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Former user wrote on 9/5/2006, 11:33 AM

IF you are not planning on doing any zooms or pans, you want to scan the document at 72dpi. A JPG is a compressed format which for the most part works okay, but to retain the best quality, save it as an uncompressed format such as TIF or PSD.

If you plan on doing some zooming, then scan at either 150 or 300 dpi. This gives you room for zooming while retaining quality.

Now before anybody says DPI doesn't matter, I realize that. But most scanners do not have settings for the resolution of the image, only the DPI setting. So if you scan an 8 x 10 at 72 dpi, then the resolution is 576 x 720. Which is close to the normal 720 x 480 resolution of a DV AVI.

Also, be aware that thin lines such as type or underlines will not always look good on a TV because of the limitations of the NTSC scan.
Dave T2

rs170a wrote on 9/5/2006, 11:36 AM

I did a video earlier this year where I had a LOT of documents to show.
My solution was to convert them(MS Word files) to PDFs using .
I then converted them to PSDs with Photoshop. You could also convert them to high res JPEGs if you wanted to.
Once in Vegas, I used Pan/Crop to move them around as desired.

Mike