Thank you Johnny Wu!! That's really helpful info. I figured there had to be rational method to determine resolution, but never knew what. Thanks again! Jean Chang ----- Original Message ----- From: "Johnny Wu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, November 18, 2004 4:31 PM Subject: RE: [AP] Scanning for photo montage
> > > 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! Terms of > Service. > > > > --------------------------------- > Do you Yahoo!? > The all-new My Yahoo! - Get yours free! > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Sponsor > ADVERTISEMENT > > > --------------------------------- > Yahoo! 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