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  • importing video question

    Posted by Matthew Preis on March 2, 2007 at 8:35 pm

    I am editing a video for the web 320 by 240. When I import one of the files from the web, should I tell the avid to maintain its size, will it export clean?

    James Burke replied 19 years, 2 months ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  • Sebastian Riezler

    March 5, 2007 at 4:18 pm

    i haven’t tried this way, but i think its kind of logic:

    import it with rescaling, because if you don’t you will have a 320×240 image on your PAL/NTSC screen.
    when you’re done editing and will export it again with the size of 320×240 it will scale the whole PAL/NTSC image down, which scales your original footage even smaller.

    rock on
    Riot

  • James Burke

    March 5, 2007 at 6:31 pm

    If all your source is 320×240, I would import without rescaling, then when the project is done, crop the video in your encoding software. If you scale up to full raster in Avid, it will get soft – if you crop, it will stay (relatively) sharp in the Avid.

    James Burke
    Creative Director
    mBlaze Multimedia Design, Inc.
    http://www.mBlaze.com

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