my lower 3rds look like crap

[Ryan Holmes]

[David Baud] “and save that new still picture. On screen it will appear that nothing has changed. Now I can work with it in After Effects or Premiere without fear :-)”

You could actually make the resolution of your image 1 dpi and it would make no difference to Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro, or Avid. All those apps care about are the width and height of the image

I think I was bit unclear in my previous post when I referenced physical resolution. What I meant by that was width and height of the image as you pointed out in your post, but I didn’t mean it to be taken as having anything to do with dpi. Again, your dpi setting is irrelevant to a NLE. It’s only working with the pixels as defined by the images width and height.

[David Baud] “72ppi or pixels-per-inch, or the equivalent of 72 dpi”

Pixels per inch, or ppi, is still a term derived prepping an image for printing. ppi is not “technically” the same as dpi, though they are similar, but for this discussion it suffices to say that neither matter to the OP’s point of view. And neither matter for us in the video world when creating graphics unless you need more width/height on an image so you can Ken Burns it (or if you want to print! 🙂

Ryan Holmes
http://www.ryanholmes.me
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[Chris Tompkins]

This show is standard DV.

This will make grfx look like do-do.

Chris