Hey, that's a great idea! Thanks!! Lee
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Glen Tubbesing Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2012 2:32 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [AP] Mixing video and still clips Lee, Another option on those narrow portrait photos is to duplicate the image twice and place the duplicates on either side of the main picture, desaturate those side images and apply a fairly heavy Gaussian Blur to them. I've been seeing that effect lately a lot to cover letterboxed video. Glen On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 9:20 AM, Lee Menningen <[email protected]> wrote: > ** > > > I recommend you don't "resize" them at all - import them into PPro, as is. > Most of mine are 5184x3456 jpg's. Before importing you might want to > set your project preferences to a default slide duration - I usually > use 60 frames but of course once imported they can be dragged to any > duration you desire. > > Drag them onto your timeline - they will be scaled at 100% which will > be too large - but that is good. I then scale each photo using key > frames according to the subject matter and photo composition. For > instance, a group picture might not show well as a group in a video, > in which case I might scale down a bit and put a position and scale > keyframe at the start to show only the left side of the photo and > another position/scale keyframe at the end to show only the right side > of the picture. Then when the video is played, the photo will be > "panning" from left to right. The speed of the pan will depend on the > photo duration and the position differences. You can also adjust the > scale while panning, if that is your artistic desire. > > Another thing I often do is zoom into a face, again using keyframes > that adjust the scale; sometime I go into a face and sometimes pull out. > > All of these zoom/panning techniques work best when the photo is still > at its original size. Trying to zoom into a photo might not show up > very clear, or panning won't work at all unless the photo is much > larger than the video frame size. > > Portrait photos might need more work because they might be too narrow. > Two options here, one is to scale up so the width fits the video and > let the top and bottom be cropped, or second, if that doesn't look > right, I just leave the photo too narrow and maybe include a > background on another layer to dress up the side blank areas. > > Lee > > From: [email protected] [mailto: > [email protected]] > On Behalf Of John Ashburn > Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2012 10:42 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [AP] Mixing video and still clips > > > > Hello All > > I am editing a nature video that incorporates both video and still photos. > It is an HD project in 1920x1080P and am using CS5 to edit. > > I have never mixed video and still images in the same project and am > not sure what size to make the stills. I presume I would resize and > crop them to 1920x1080, but not sure what DPI setting to use. I know > if they were to be viewed on a computer monitor I would use 72DPI, but > what should be used for viewing on a large screen TV? > > I will be burning this project to Blu Ray. > > Any advice you can offer will be helpful and appreciated > > Thanks > > John A > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Adobe-Premiere/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Adobe-Premiere/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
