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Posted by marks542004 on 12/29/05 01:29
Not A Speck Of Cereal wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Noob question: I have a video project that I want to import still
> images to (Adobe Premier). The images are relatively high quality,
> sharp stills, 6mp digital images. When I import them and place them in
> the sequence, they're too large of course.
>
> So I've tried several methods of sizing them down, using the scale
> effect in Premier, scaling them down externally and importing that
> scaled version, but they're all poor quality in the project.
>
> I've tried scaling them down in Photoshop, Nikon Capture, and other
> apps, saving them as non-compressed, but they're still crappy. The
> video project was captured at 720x480 and looks decent, but the stills
> scaled down to that resolution are not.
>
> Any tips? I'm guessing that I'm missing something pretty fundamental.
>
> Thanks, Chris
>
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I normally trim the original to a multiple of 720 x 480 and then do a
resample image to the desired size.
I also use a digital camera that gives me very close to the desired
size. In my experiance scaling down or resampling from a very high
resolution image always looks bad.
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