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ted tibbetts

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Jul 28, 2003, 9:27:59 AM7/28/03
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Hello All,

I have a pinnacle pro one RTDV card and have been working on a photomontage. I've been importing stills as JPG's. However, both pictures and transitions remain black during playback until I render them. Any suggestions?

Ted

Ken Hackenberg

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Jul 28, 2003, 3:01:39 PM7/28/03
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I have been importing either TIF or PSD image stills for a DV output, and they look very poor upon review. They look fine on the monitor window before outputting. I have tried increasing the DPI of the images and it doens't seem to have any effect in the final movie output. Anyone have suggestions or know what I can do to optimize the quality of static images in Premiere?
I have the aspect ratio turned on so the stills remain undistorted. In the outputted video file, the images are very pixelated and low quality.
My images are 300 DPI, and quite small as they are scanned photographs.
Thanks!~ Ken

John T Smith

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Jul 28, 2003, 2:42:33 PM7/28/03
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Jpg's are, by design, compressed when created (amount of compression is set in the creating program)

Try uncompressed Tif's to see if they work better

Also, make sure your pictures EXACTLY match your video settings (ie- size and pixels)

Jim-Clark

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Jul 28, 2003, 3:13:37 PM7/28/03
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The images look good in the monitor window because they are relatively small when you see them there. If they are starting out small then there is nothing you can do to improve the quality by making them larger, and that is what Premiere is trying to do by adjusting them to 720x480. Think of it as if you are looking at the print on a newspaper with your naked eye, the print looks OK. Now use a magnifying glass and the print look terrible.

If you have small image size to start with then one way to deal with it is to open the image in Photoshop and set the canvas size to what you want. Save from Photoshop as a PSD. Then when you import to Premiere you will get the entire canvas in size with the smaller image in the middle and Premiere won't try to blow it up for you.

By the way, if you are using anything prior to 6.5, don't use the maintain aspect ratio setting. Causes problems.

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