Stills and HD - how to optomize quality ?

fultro wrote on 4/24/2005, 12:54 PM
I will start a project soon that will incorporate a lot of stills to be used enentually at both SD and HD. One limitation I have is that I only have an SD monitor and not a good one at that. So for now I have to the best I can using my computer monitor and tv (SD), which is why I want to at least get the procedure right in the first place..........

A few questions would be:

-the stills are high quality RAW files ~ 2600x1900 - would it be advantageous to work at one of the HD project settings keeping the files at their original rez (some panning & zooming required as well as fades, dissolves etc.) - my guess is that this has to be useful for the HD output (???)

-but what about the SD output - are their artifacts in downrezing or zooming to fit the standard tv screen? or is it preferable to do the downrezing in Photoshop first?

-and for each of the two outputs how best to deal with interlacing issues if any....

In general - any comments on how to deal with these stills in Vegas (and/or Photoshop) to get the optimum output for either SD or HD would be most welcome.

Comments

JJKizak wrote on 4/24/2005, 2:42 PM
I haven't done a lot of HDV stuff in slides but I have strung a slug of jpg's (50) (2200 x 2200) and hit the script match aspect, then zoomed as much as 10 x 1 (8 x 1 starts getting pixelly) then rendered HDV 720p and they were staggerring in quality. Thats viewing from PTT on a JVC D-VHS deck or the MY-HD 120 card file viewer to a Sony KV-HS34510 HDTV. Now I can use the 1080i render template but haven't tried it yet. This is in V5.0d

JJK

fultro wrote on 4/24/2005, 2:48 PM
this is encouraging JJK
what is PTT
and what is script match aspect? I have no such script ...

thanks