[Adrian Perez]

Thanks Mike. I will be coming back, I’m sure. I was just telling my girlfriend how amazing the internet is, allowing people like me to communicate with people like you and John. Simply amazing.

Anyway, thanks for answering.

Adrian

[Adrian Perez]

Thanks John. I think the light has now reached me. I do have one last question that would help settle me:

Since I plan on doing no panning/scanning/zooming with my photos, is it okay in your opinion to keep the resolution at a 1:1 ratio? For example it was suggested that I use double the resolution of whatever video resolution I was going for. So if I am going with 1920×1080 resolution it was suggested my photos should be at 3840×2160, which makes sense to me if I was planning on zooming, etc. But since I won’t be can I keep the photos at 1920×1080 (or 1280×720 if I’m going 720p) without worry?

I ask because if that is what I can do, then I might go with the 720p just to be able to use some photos I would love to but might not look so good in 1920×1080.

Again, thanks to you (and Mike) for your time.

Adrian

[Adrian Perez]

Ah! I think I’m finally getting it. The reason I’m fixated on this is that I am trying to use a lot of older digital photos that are at are at 1600×1200 resolution (72 dpi, but that doesn’t matter). If I go by Mike’s earlier suggestion I would need to boost the width and height by over 200% (enlarging them to 3840×2160), which I’m afraid would produce very pixelated images when projected. Again, I’m coming at it from a different angle (more print I guess) so if I seem particularly dense about this…well, you and my girlfriend can have a good laugh over coffee! But I’d really love to use these photos yet everything in me is saying that I can’t “boost” the images by that much without serious image distortion. Does that make sense?

Also, since I have your ear (eyes): I would like to produce this in HD and thought (as most newbies do I’m sure), “Why I’ll just make it at the highest possible resolution (1920×1080) so it’ll look the absolute best it can!” But now I wonder if I shouldn’t aim for the 720 version of HD (1280×720) instead. My eventual goal with this project is festivals, etc. But I’m stumbling at the moment because I studied film – actual film – back in the 90’s but this is all new to me. Would you recommend one over the other?

Thanks again. This whole forum has been like going back to school for me.

[Adrian Perez]

Mike,

First thank you so much for replying to my question. As I was about to head off to bed I thought I’d check and see if anyone had replied and there was your response.

Maybe I’m thinking of this too “photo-centric”, as I’m not understanding how to go about this. For example in Photoshop I took the same photograph and assigned it the pixel size you mentioned (3840 x 2160) in both 72 & 150 dpi. As you can see in the attached image, I had two entirely different results size-wise, but both were at the overall pixel size you suggested. Am I just not getting it? I keep getting stuck on how much detail I might or might not get depending on the dpi I import the stills in.

Thanks again for the reply, and if I don’t reply back this evening it’s only due to my long work day. 🙂