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What image size and resolution should non-pro photos be to match 1280×720 sequence on Premiere Pro?
I’m making a video to be projected and for internet and I have a collection of photos which were shot on point and shoot cameras that i want to blend nicely with my HD footage. What size and resolution should they be and what’s the fastest (batch way) to convert them to match my sequence settings? 1280×720 square
thanks!
Sarah -
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Well, if you are NOT doing any moves on the them. You can batch resize a whole folder at once. Resize them to 1280×720.
Photoshop or crop (apps)
Also, make sure the photo’s are:
72dpi
rgb colorChris Tompkins
Video Atlanta LLC -
Hi Chris,
Thanks for your response. I will likely zoom in and pan on the photos, I assume that changes what you said?
Can you give me a step by step how I’d batch re-size and change resolution?
I see that many of them are 180ppi.
I want this for the web and large projection.
Thanks,
SF -
Forget about dpi (dots per inch), that is for printing. The only thing that matters are the pixels.
In this tutorial Andrew shows you a way to batch resize in Photoshop.
https://www.videocopilot.net/tutorials/elegant_slideshows/
If you want to do some panning and zooming make them twice the size of your framesize.
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Adobe Community Professional -
Hi Ann,
Thanks! This tut is great. My only question is which size to choose. Andrew is using 720×480 and my sequence is 1280×720 while my images are originally 2592×1944. I want to leave a little room so I can zoom in on them, so I assume I want to make them a little larger.
Sarah -
Hi Sarah,
You don’t necessarily have to resize the images, but just keep in mind that if you don’t have a high-performance workstation, large images can bog down the system.
In Premiere Preferences, there is a checkbox for Default Scale to Frame Size. If you enable this PRIOR to importing the pics, they will be sized to fit the screen, but if you are planning motion on the pics anyway, leave this option OFF to utilize the full image resolution for pan/zoom.
Scale to Frame can also be turned ON/OFF by right-clicking the photo on the timeline and toggling Scale to Frame.
Since your pics are currently about twice the 720p resolution, and you DO want to zoom on them, I would use them as-is as long as the computer can keep up.
Jeff Pulera
Safe Harbor Computers -
The dimensions of your pics are not too bad. Try it first without resizing. If your project gets very slow then you will know its time to resize.
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