What resolution/size for Tiff Stills

Alan T wrote on 12/8/2007, 10:34 AM
I have 65 Tiff images 1310 x 960 at 300 dpi and I am concerned that these are hogging my memory and causing problems (Exceptions and hank up) while editing a 1 hour video.

Should I drop the resolution? Reduce the size to 655 x 480 and keep the resolution at 300 or drop the resolution as well?

I also have 108 video clips , 25 solid color -animated arrows, 176 media generator (Text). Is this video to large for Movie Studio 7 Platimum?
Thanks for any suggestions and help.
Alan T

Comments

Ivan Lietaert wrote on 12/8/2007, 10:44 AM
If you plan to play this on a non hd tv, then you can scale down the resolution.
VMS handles memory the same as Pro. The more ram you have, the better the performace, the more brute force processor power you have, the better.
Chienworks wrote on 12/8/2007, 12:01 PM
The dpi makes absolutely no difference at all, in any way, shape, or form. 1310x960 at 300 dpi, 1310x960 at 60dpi, and 1310x960 at 4800dpi are all just 1310x960, and it's the 1310x960 that matters.

Vegas doesn't handle TIFF very well; it uses QuickTime for decoding them. Without resizing them at all you'll get much better performance by converting them to PNG or JPG.
Alan T wrote on 12/9/2007, 6:07 AM
Chienworks and Ivan123

Thansk for info in Tiff and resolution. I'll change my Tiff's to JPG's and see how that works out. I have a intel dual cor 6700 and 2 gigs of memory and a PNY Navf Quadro FX1500 with a ASUS PSW DX Delux for a computer, but, I'm a real newbe at digital editing. Thank you both for your help.

Alan T