Help:Designing a HD image to add in a HD video

[freestyler09]

Hi Guys,

I want to design an image in photoshop to be a background in a HD video

What is the right size for a HD image?

*I'm using vegas pro 9

Thanks in advance

[guns1inger]

Depends what HD resolution you are using.

1280 x 720 square pixel
1920 x 1080 square pixel
1440 x 1080 non-square pixel

If you need to use the third one, I would suggest working in 1920 x 1080, then saving a version at this resolution, and another resized to 1440 x 1080.

You just need to work out what resolution your video will be . . . . . . . .

[frlane]

"If you need to use the third one, I would suggest working in 1920 x 1080, then saving a version at this resolution, and another resized to 1440 x 1080."

I'll second that.

[edDV]

And for photos, shoot or scan higher than 1920x1080 if you can, then crop/downsize to 1920x1080 or 1440x1080. Remember to honor safe action and safe title regions in graphics and photo cropping. Best to monitor in both 16:9 and overscanned 4:3.