settings for scanning documents and photos

[Angelo Lorenzo]

DPI settings means nothing as monitors are fixed DPI/PPI devices. 1920x1080px at 72DPI and 300DPI is the same https://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2010/02/the-myth-of-dpi/

Your scanner may lock DPI to scan size so if you have a 4×6 inch picture, scanning at 300DPI would result in a 1200×1800 pixel image.

Premiere doesn’t take kindly to images more than 4000px on the long end, or so I’ve heard. Scanning your images in around this large should allow you plenty of leeway for panning and scanning Ken Burns style.

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[Tom Edwards]

angelo,
thanks for the reply.
looks like my test 8.5×11 @300 dpi comes in at 2550×3509.

when i bump up the dpi to 720, the dimensions are 6120×8423.

does that make sense?

[Angelo Lorenzo]

It does, the scanner is a variable PPI device so by upping the sampling rate, or PPI in this case, you get a result with more pixels. Of course that dimension will be in flux if you scan an 8×10 vs a 4×6 image.

To make media management easier after the fact, it may be good to resize all photos to a semi-consistent size using Photoshop or Lightroom.

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[Tom Edwards]

interesting. thanks. appreciate the help.

[Jullain Stevart]

While choosing the dpi you should take care of allowing the length of time taking for the scanning a document or picture. For higher the dpi then it takes longer for the scanning.For Epson v600 the dpi 4800 takes 6:37.