best render settings for slide show video with stills using 10 pro

[John Rofrano]

I would use a project and render setting of 1280×720 24p. This should look great on YouTube. Render with the Sony AVC encoder.

~jr

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[Jerry Rio]

Thanks John, you are always so helpful. Most of the stills are pics I grabbed from the net so they are 72 res and various sizes. I’ve used pics that I got from the net before and didn’t resise any of them and it seems to work out. Do I need to resize the photos if they are pretty small files to start with.

Also to get the photos so there are no borders if I select “stretch to fit” in the crop tool would that work or since I am using photos of different sizes and shapes would this not be possible. I can live with borders on the photos if it is much easier.

Jerry

Thanks Much

[John Rofrano]

[Jerry Rio] “Do I need to resize the photos if they are pretty small files to start with. “

No you don’t as long as they’re not too big. I usually keep them within 2x the project resolution.

[Jerry Rio] “Also to get the photos so there are no borders if I select “stretch to fit” in the crop tool would that work or since I am using photos of different sizes and shapes would this not be possible. I can live with borders on the photos if it is much easier. “

I would right-click in the Pan/Crop and select Match Output Aspect and this will crop them with no borders. It’s better than stretching things out of shape.

There is a new option in Vegas Pro 10 that will do this for you. Go to Options | Preferences | Editing and enable [x] Automatically crop still images added to timeline.

~jr

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[Greg Barringer]

John has helped me with slides and “Automatically crop still images added to timeline” saves time in version 10. John also suggested Vaast Ultimate S lite which I purchased. This really made slideshows easy.