Jpeg conversion

[garybob]

I am new to all this business, but want to acheive the following.

I have loads of pictures from my digital camera at a resolution of 1600x1200. I want to use Premiere to convert these into an mpg format with transitions, titles etc. This I can do, and therfore I can create a VCD with menus.

The questions is how can I reduce the resolution of my pictures as it takes forever for Premiere to produce the avi for later comversion to mpg. I am guessing that if I reduce the resolution of the picture to something more suitable for VCD, then the conversion to avi and mpg would be quicker. I am hoping to use Photshop for reducing the resolution.

Thanks for any help.

Gary

[megafree]

back up the pics first and them use the batch conversion tool in your graphics program. you can set the size and compression you want and the pics will all be done.

back them up first

re's

[Faceman101]

Just drag the pictures into Nero's VCD Template and burn away. I tried it last week and surprising they look really good. You have to hit a button to advance to each one, but it's still nice. There might be an option for setting a time for each one, but I didn't look into that.

Or you could bring all the pictures into Premiere, set the time for 3secs or 5secs a piece, put an audio track to it, export to Uncompressed AVI or get the Huffyuv codec and set res to 352x240. Encode with TMPGEnc with it's VCD Template and you're set. I don't see how it would take forever for Premiere to reduce the res, if anything it would be quick. What codec are you exporting the AVI with? That plays a major part in speed.

If you have Photoshop you can batch an action of downsizing. You record an action with Photoshop, make a batch for that action and the folder you have the pictures in and Photoshop will do each one for you. This method shouldn't really be considered since Premiere will do this for you.

[garybob]

Thanks for the advice. I was using the export timeline option in premiere to .avi. It was doing about 1 frame/sec, even one picture was taking forever, then it would slow down further during the transitions.

Any advice about which codec to use.
Cheers

[garybob]

I have managed to do what I wnated using the PICVideo codec from within Premiere and exporting directly as a mpg file. This is a lot quicker and better quality than exporting as avi then converting.

One question though, the mpg file plays fine in Windows media player, but Real player rejects it stating that the file header is missing or something. Will this stop Nero burning it to VCD properly??