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adding pictures to Premiere – resizing etc to work in Video
I am trying to see the best way to import pictures into Premiere so that the size will work. I am editing in HD 1440 x 1080, but when I size the picture in Photoshop it is not cropped at the top bottom (so if using the color key command the video has color bars but the picture does not). and I cannot tell how it looks on the screen in the Monitor so the only way to see how it looks is to export the file as video and watch it.
the settings we are using are the Sony 60i HD presets in Prem P 2.0. I went back and forth in Photoshop and changed the image size, but that didn’t work too well. then I used the Crop tool (in Prem Pro) but again had to go back and forth until I ended up with 15% crop on top and bottom.
does anyone have some ideas about the best way to incorporate pictures into a movie?
Also what is the best way to resize photos in Photoshop to get the needed look in the Video? I was going into Photoshop and resizing the photo but something tells me I might want to crop the photo first then resize so that I don’t get the wierd stretched look….or use the TRANSFORM tool in Premiere Pro to show the pic at greater than 100%? or a combo of all three…..
any answers would be great.
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I have recently been doing graphics on a job between premiere and Photoshop in HDV which is the same canvas size as HD.
If you create a custom canvas of 1920 x 1080 (the widescreen ratio of HD) in Photoshop, create your graphics then import the PSD into Premiere, your graphics should display correctly on the timeline.
Let me know if this works
Regards
Matt Taylor
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have you taken existing Photos that you have and tried to get them to fit onto a specific canvas size?
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Yeah, work with your photos in Photoshop first at the specified canvas size, unless, that is, if you want to do rostrum movements across the photos, then the images would have to be larger than the canvas (1920 x 1080)
Matt
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What does rostrum mean? is that like rotating the picture….?
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I think he’s talking about Pan and Scan uses. There could also be a rotation in the zoom, but the image needs to be big enough to not show quality loss and the edges of the image – breaking the illusion of it not being a static image.
– Jon 😉How many editors does it take to change a light bulb?
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Hi, i was wondering if there is another editing program other than adobe premiere that allows a regular 2896 x 1944 images to be put together like a stop motion animation rather than individually resizing each image in the specified canvas size in photoshop?
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[Brad Liew] “other than adobe premiere”
Any NLE worth its weight in salt can take a numbered sequence of stills and create video from it. PPro does this very easily.
Cheers
Eddie -
sorry, i wasn’t being specific. I’m having this problem where the photos i place into the time line comes out in a “cropped zoomed in” condition.
For example if i had a picture of a table and a chair, it only shows part of the chair in the Monitor section.
Any suggestions?
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[Brad Liew] “Any suggestions?”
Yes indeed. Have a look at: FAQ:How do I automatically scale clips to the Project Size?
Cheers
Eddie
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