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I do not have a NTSC monitor. I know your suppose to view on it but i don’t have the funds for it right now. I use a 17″ flat HD monitor instead. And i see the glitches on it too. I see it playing it back on QT on my 20″ flat apple screen and my 17″ hd tv screen. I will compress again using the “best” option setting for motion under quality settings.

I have not trying using compressor it self. DO just convert my FCP 5.0 file to reg-mpg file then compress in compressor? Or do i covert video file to mpg2 and then re-compress in compressor?

About the GOP changes/one pass, etc. i take it these are setting in compressor right?
I will look into this. I will also go back and check my sequence setting, etc as i might have something conf incorrectly..

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Tarik

I know this is off topic (email me offline) but i wouldlike to know how you compressed your video for web viewing. Can you share some light on this? (offline @ dmvideo@mac.com)

Thanks,

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Thanks for the response. I have been playing with this and have been doing what you said, leaving the height to what ever it changes to automatically. I still have to play with this to get it right. Thanks to all for the continuous help/support. I have a photo montage coming up next month and i need to get this down quick.

Thanks again.

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Dean / Bret/ Ed /Chris

Thanks for the support and help.

Can you tell I

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Anyone? Everyone on vacation or i said someting wrong? lol..

I will wait some more..

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Ok, I have a few more questions to really understand it- Such as:

(I get the best format is pict or tiff. Not jpeg)

Your explanation of 2x or 3x the frame size (norm is 720*480) for zooming in etc paragraph..(your last post My question: is there a all time size best to have all pictures scanned in the event I end up changing my mind on how I will use the pictures in the video. This way I won’t need to go back to my client and ask to re-scan, etc. I prefer to have clients send me the 3x frame size @ DPI? (300 or 72??) then I will resize to fit (using photo shop cs 8.0) according to how I’m going to use it in the video. Can you help me with this? If I understand the 3x frame size, the normal frame size for TV is 720*480. So, 2x would be 720×2 & 480×2? Same for 3x? Do I have this right? Again, I rather have all pictures scanned at 3x with the highest DPI. I will resize it myself to fit the usage of photos in the video. So, 3x = what, and at what dpi?

Second question.

When I decide to resize, is there a rule on what dpi should follow? I understand that normal TV with no panning/moving etc is 720*480 @ 72dpi.. For each frame size I change what it the best dpi for each frame size? The lower the dpi- the better resolution/pixilation? I thought dpi was important for printing only? So based on what I will request as my norm- for all pictures (3x and keeping in mind that I will do the resizing myself to fit the video,)
my instructions would be to the customer?:

Format pict or tiff
Scanned @

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Steve

I will try that this week. I was told that rendering to animation would add to render time? true? I read to reduce time to change settings from animation (defalut?) to something like dv/pro ntcs?

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Trip

I just realized that you too responded, Thanks! In addition to what BW mentioned in his posts, if pictures are way to small to enlarge, say under 720×480- I

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BW

I do have PS 7.0 for PC. I

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BW

Thanks for the reply. These images will all be scanned most likely. Since they are old and if scanned at least 1200 pixels wide won’t i end up with a stretched image or have a lot of black space at ends of pictures? Just curious. I imagine they will be your 4×6 and 5×7 size pictures.. ???

OK, i will have them scanned at 1200 pixels wide, format- jpeg @ 72 dpi.
So if i decide to animate in AE /scaling will not distort the image?
Do i need to de-interlace them?

Thanks for the help and sorry for my lack of knowledge on using images in video. I will learn from this though.. 🙂