Importing Still Images

[LJGCreative]

I'm planning to incorporate some still images into a dvd history documentary I'm creating. It will be in PAL format with a 4.3 aspect ratio. I'm using Adobe Premier Pro 1.0

I know Premier Pro will scale still images/photos to the dv project dimensions but as the source photos are actual photographic prints 10"x10" square , I need to know what size to scan these images in to enable me to import them in my video project.

Would it be better to just scan the images to say 2000x2000 pixels and let adobe premier pro scale my stills automatically or would 720x576 or 1024x576 be better.

I appreciate my stills will end up cropped one way or another.

Thanks.

[unclebud]

Why not crop them yourself and make it right the first time.
It's up to you but that's what I would do.

[daamon]

Hi LJGCreative,

Welcome to the forums.

I use Adobe Premiere Pro 1.5 - when I drop JPGs onto the timeline that are bigger than the PAL DV 720 x 576 it only shows the portion of the JPG that fits into that area, with the rest of the image beyond the display, and so not visible.

I use Premiere's scale function to reduce them, or I believe there's a way to say "automatically resize my images to same as the project" - though I'm not sure, and don't know how to do it. Project settings I guess...

I suppose it comes down to which reduces the images with a resultant better quality - your scanner or Premiere? This would require you to experiment, and only you can judge the results.

If they're comparable - I'd go for whichever you find quicker / easier.

Have a look / post in this forum:

www.wrigleyvideo.com/videotutorial

...as there's loads of Premiere stuff there. There's also some useful and interesting tutorials.

Good luck...

[LJGCreative]

Thank you to both "daamon" and "unclebud" for your suggestions.

I found the best quality was by scanning my photos at 1500x1500 pixels at 300dpi through adobe Photoshop 6 and saving them as uncompressed tiff files.

I then loaded up premier pro selected DV 4.3 project PAL and ticked the boxed scale to project dimensions.

Imported my tiff files and selected automate sequence to timeline then I imported my main DV AVI captured film footage and encoded to mpeg2

The project is looking good so far.

Thanks again for the help and the http://www.wrigleyvideo.com/videotutorial link.