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Spot|DSE wrote on 10/1/2004, 2:22 PM
If they're going on a DV or MPEG print, 1920 x 960 is plenty. Remember that vid is equivalent to 72 dpi, so higher resolutions don't buy you much, and can potentially cause problems.
paulwilko wrote on 10/1/2004, 2:26 PM
They will be going on a dvd for stand alone players. Does the same apply ?

Thx

Paul
GTakacs wrote on 10/1/2004, 2:28 PM
To fill the full screen in DV your pictures have to be 720x480, but not with a propotional pixel aspect ratio. Pictures from your digital camera will have a 1:1 vertical to horizontal ratio.

If you want to make them 16:9 you have to have 873x480 resolution pictures with square pixels that are later converted to 720x480 resolution with a pixel aspect ratio of 1:1.2121 (DV widescreen).

For 4:3 footage you will need a 640x480 original square pixeled picture resized to 720x480 to get he proper aspect ratio.
Spot|DSE wrote on 10/1/2004, 3:21 PM
Again, unless you're zooming, and at that point, you'll want to double up on pixels to have a clean zoom.
I'm cutting my stills to match our Canon XL2, which is 960 x 480. Aspect derived from 960 x .909 is 873 x 480. However, I don't concern myself with setting the aspect to 1746 since Vegas scales correctly for me with the aspect scripts we use.
Lawrence wrote on 10/1/2004, 7:17 PM
When compressing image to a smaller size, png format works best for Vegas. PNG is also a very good compression to retain quality - lossless.

Take compressing to 50% of the origianl will be the good size reduction.