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final resolution for projection
Hello – – I am about to start designing a 5 minute video piece which will ultimately be used as a quicktime on the web, but it also needs to work for projection work within a large classroom. The end size for the web will be 370px x 370px square. However, I need to find the safest resolution to work at for a largeish scale projection. I imagine it will be a laptop hooked up to a digital projector, however the details I don’t have, and I am starting blind.
Any suggestions of resolutions that won’t get me into trouble further down the track would be a great help!? Thank you!
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5 Replies
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Thanks Dave,
It is just using still imagery, composed in After Effects, which i will render out as a quicktime, so the 740 x 740 was the answer I was looking for (I just had no idea how large I should go)! Thanks again.
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Dave when you emphatically say DO NOT shoot DV 16:9, are you saying because of this particular situation or because of a problem with DV 16:9?
Trey Selman
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740×740…dunno…but I think I have to disagree with this.
First off, projector resolutions are not square. SVGA is 800×600, XGA is 1024×768. These would be the two most common business presentation projectors in the market. Both are a 4:3 ratio. And it is an undisputable fact that the best picture quality to project is to use the projector’s native resolution, i.e. rather than let the projector’s electronics do the scaling, feed it its native resolution – either SVGA or XGA as the case may be, unless you are using higher end projectors with a higher native resolution.
With that in mind, I’d recommend creating in 800×600 or 1024×768. If in doubt as to what projector will be used, XGA is the more common res. when a projector is rented from a rental house. SVGA is the more common when the client owns it for his own use (due to purchase price differences!). Then for web output, pre-comp and Shift-scale, with cropping of the sides, to the resolution you require. Or scale and crop in the Output Module but I would find it easier when done in a comp.
Both methods would require that you create in Photoshop your own 1:1 Safe Title/Action Grid Overlay so that things are not off the screen when outputting for the web.
Thomas Leong
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i agree with trey. what’s wrong with shooting 16:9?
Alexander Gao
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[thewanggao] ”
i agree with trey. what’s wrong with shooting 16:9?”Nothing… except when you know you’ll end up on a 4:3 or in this case even square image, there’s no point wasting the resolution on a wide image, that would be cropped to a square.
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