Jean, at the adobe forum, here's one person's comment on scaning resolution
scanning resolution for images in Premiere, THE solution told! Gordon Clement - 08:53pm Jan 16, 2004 PST There seems to be a lot of confusion on what resolution to scan photos for use in Premiere. I have seen this question on many different forums and I always post this answer... To determine the scanning resolution for your image, you first must need to know what part of the image you want to see on full screen. This is dependant on the video format used, and the only constant is the native pixel dimensions of the edit video, for this example we will use the DV frame size as 720 X 486. Other formats may have a different pixel dimension for the frame, but I am using NTSC-DV for the demonstration purposes. Your photo may be a 4 X 6, but if all you want to use is a 1.5" bit of the whole photo, or you were planning on starting wide and then zoom into the 1.5" bit, you would have to scan the entire photo at a higher resolution to get a quality image of the final framing. If you were just to sit still on the full 4 x 6 you would not need the same resolution scan. You must take into account the largest dimension of the smallest portion of the desired full screen image compared to the output dimensions. It works out to a formula: (output dimension /largest source dimension)= scan resolution SO.. in taking my example above... 720/1.5"= 480 So you should scan at 480 DPI for the zoomed in 1.5" part from the 4x6 to look good on screen. BUT, if you wanted just a still shot, no zoom in, you could just scan the 4x6 photo in at 120 DPI -----Original Message----- From: Jean Chang [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 18, 2004 4:30 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [AP] Scanning for photo montage Taky, I'm going to have to try that. When you get the photo into PhotoShop, to resize it, what resolution do you use? I'm assuming you go to <image -> image size -> resolution? A lot of the photos I used were pretty bad quality, too. Some old stuff maybe 30 years old that need some "Photo-Shopping" before I use them, so this way may help. Thanks a lot! Jean ----- Original Message ----- From: "Taky Cheung" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, November 18, 2004 9:23 AM Subject: Re: [AP] Scanning for photo montage Jean, Yes, I scanned them in 600 dpi. and you are correct too 72dpi is the screen resolution. Most of the time the pictures I received are in poor quality. Also, some of the pictures are really small... so I just scan them all in 600 dpi and reduce the screen size. The reduced image quality looks better because you squeeze (interpolate) pixels together and produce a better result. I resized them in Photoshop. Thanks Taky ----- Original Message ----- From: Jean Chang To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 18, 2004 5:49 AM Subject: Re: [AP] Scanning for photo montage Taky, Wow, you scan at 600 dpi? I've only been scanning in at 150 because I thought it only had to be about 72 if it's for viewing on the screen. (You can see I'm not too good at this.) Doesn't scanning at 600 dpi make huge files? I guess the reason I kept it low was because I tried scanning at the 150 as usual, then did the same photo at 300 dpi, and didn't see any difference. I'll have to try it again and see what I get. Thanks, Jean Chang ----- Original Message ----- From: "Taky Cheung" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, November 18, 2004 1:29 AM Subject: Re: [AP] Scanning for photo montage I always scan pictures in 600dpi and scale down to 720x540. Pictures look better after scaling down from scanning.. or at least I believe it. thanks Taky ----- Original Message ----- From: digitaldel2000 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 2004 5:54 PM Subject: [AP] Scanning for photo montage Hi everyone, I have about 500 6*4 35mm photos which I want to scan and make into a montage. I have adobe premier 6, and wish to burn for widescreen pal tv playback. My question is this - Am I right in thinking that I don't need to scan above 720*500 (or whatever the exact pal widescreen resolution is)? Or do I need to scan at much higher resolutions and then resize? Has anyone got any suggestions as to which format to scan into? jpg? I have a dual layer burner, but 500 is quite a lot of photos and ideally I want to get them all on one disc and still have reasonably large photo durations. Am I missing something major here? I dont mind paying out a couple of hundred GBP to buy a new scanner (but preferably one with a photo feeder :) Any tips? Thanks!!! Scott Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ADVERTISEMENT --------------------------------- Yahoo! Groups Links To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Adobe-Premiere/ To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! 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