Scanning newspaper ariticles photos for use in premiere

[Paul Neumann]

Scan it as a .pdf. Then open it in Illustrator and save as an .ai file.

[Chris Borjis]

as long as it’s somewhere around 4000 pixels in dimension it should
be fine. Paul’s suggestion is a good idea too, but does premiere cc
rasterize .ai files now? cs6 wouldn’t do that.

I would have scanned to .pdf then rasterized in photoshop to a 4k ish size.

cs6 didn’t like still images bigger than 4k but maybe cc can go beyond.

[Paul Neumann]

Yeah, pretty often I’ll open a .pdf in AI and place the selected page on a 1920×1080 artboard. Then I blow up the image as a whole to where I like the focus and then resize the artboard and save it off for PPro or AE. Working with a graphic from this workflow right now that’s 2376×3173. Just a page from a .pdf brochure that needs to be brought to life a little.

[Ann Bens]

Both pdf and ai get rasterized in CC.

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[Chris Borjis]

[Ann Bens] “Both pdf and ai get rasterized in CC.”

wow! really? that’s huge!

I always figured if anyone could do it, it would be adobe. (since they make photoshop & illustrator)

in cs 6 if I brought in an .ai, it would come in very tiny and
making it bigger than 100% was god awful pixelized.

[Ann Bens]

It has always been like that.
However you can link back to the original file (rightclick on file in timeline) and make changes in Ps or Ai.
If you want to keep the vector based option.
Do your animating or whatever in AE.

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[Chris Borjis]

[Ann Bens] “It has always been like that.”

I just tried an .ai and an .eps

they aren’t properly rasterizing.

the .ai shows media offline, the .eps comes in VERY small
and when enlarged with motion tab above 100% looks very
pixelated.

that wouldn’t be acceptable for anyone.

What I meant was being able to do same as above, but
it looks crisp and clean…within premiere.

It would be UBER cool if Adobe could stick the raster engine
from photoshop into premiere, so you don’t have to convert
it first. it might be asking alot, and I’m fine with it
the way it is, but that would be VERY cool if it did.

even if on import, it asked you what size you wanted to be first, like photoshop.
workflow time saver.

[Tim Kolb]

Premiere Pro has always rasterized once on import…it’s not continuous like AE. Size matters. Any illustrator files I use are always larger than I need them to be in PPro in order to keep them clean. Since they’re vector files, they don’t much more space…

For a newspaper article, the issue will be the dots…newsprint dot density is low, so a scan turns into a matrix of dots and noise pretty fast when you zoom in. I always scan newsprint (after I have all legal rights for use, of course) incredibly high…800, 1200 dpi..then I bring that into photoshop and blur it a touch, deal with contrast, etc…then drop the resolution down to the level I want to use it.

TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,

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