Posted by RP on 07/02/06 20:27

Thank you all for the great dialog and suggestions. Based on the
original reply from Richard, it appears I've got everything I already
need to do this, except the knowledge and experience. ;-) I went out
and bought Jeff Schell's Premiere Pro book (Lynda.com) and it appears
to be a fabulous resource for taking me through these kinds of
questions. I'm already using keyframe animations and getting exactly
what I wanted. Richard's descriptions got me excited because the idea
of both foreground and background simultaneous movement (ala Ken Burns)
is more than I had in mind but strikes me as a great way of adding a
strong sense of motion to some scenes that I had in mind.

I had one last question that's completely out of my league and doesn't
appear to be covered in this book. How should I scan in the photos for
maximum impact and minimal resampling? I have a variety of physical
photos, so I don't have the option of taking a lot of new ones
digitized at the right size. 3x5's, 5'x7's, portrait and landscape,
well-framed, needs-cropping, etc. I have a canon scanner and I use CS2
to Import. My scanner gives me the option to scan in with "output
resolution" from 75-1200 and also gives me "print size" and "scaling"
options. And then of course CS2 gives me Image Size options. I want to
be able to do some of the motion panning and zooming I've described
above.

How would you recommend I scan these in and then re-size? I'm using
standard DV so I've been scanning them all in and then resizing to
720x480 but I suspect this is suboptimal. The ultimate display format
will be displayed on my Alienware laptop (6800 Ultra powered), running
through some kind of LCD projector onto a wall or screen. I may produce
a DVD for the couple later, but my primary initial goal is for
real-time display off my laptop at the wedding.

Thanks for your thoughts and suggestions. This is a great NG.

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