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 <*> 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/
