Posted by Mike Kujbida on 07/02/06 21:16

RP wrote:
> 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.


If I don't plan to do extensive zooming in on the images, I scan 4x6 photos
at a scanner resolution of 150 dpi. This gives me an image of (150 x 6) 900
pixels wide x (150 x 4) 600 pixels wide which allows for moderate zooming
without destroying the image quality and allows for minor cropping. For a
3x5 image, I'd leave it at 150 dpi. 5x7's would be at 100 dpi. Keep in
mind that you want to end up with, as you said, a portrait image of at least
720 x 480 so do the math to come close to these numbers.
I use Vegas for my NLE work so I don't have to worry about resizing as Vegas
does this for me automatically - one of the reasons I love it :-)

Mike

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