Posted by David McCall on 04/03/06 03:37

"Gary Eickmeier" <geickmei@tampabay.rr.com> wrote in message
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> David McCall wrote:
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>> The advantage of the scan converter is that you get to keep the
>> animation.
>> With JPEGS you loose all of that unless you recreate it in your NLE.
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>> The advantage of the Jpegs is that some of the time you can
>> rework the graphics to make them more readable. People making
>> PowerPoint presentations break every video rule you can think of.
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>> They use fonts that are way too small. They use color combinations
>> that are often very unforgiving in video, and the run text and graphics
>> much too close to the edge of the frame.
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>> I find that using PowerPoint presentations are almost as much, if not
>> more, work than creating the graphics from scratch. The exception
>> is when you can talk to the presenter before the presentation is created,
>> and convince them to take these concerns into account when designing
>> the presentation.
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> One trick I discovered to help with the video safe area is to take the
> resulting video slide show and convert it to AVI, then reimport it and use
> the MOTION filter to zoom the picture down to about 80%, then surround it
> with black fill. This is easily done in Premiere. I don't know about the
> others.
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The trick I use for that is similar. I put 2 copies of the video or still
on the timeline then squeeze the upper layer by as much as needed
allowing the edges of the lower copy fill out the edges.

If the background is a solid color or simple gradient, the edges
will hardly show.

David

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