Optimal Still Rez for HD or Widescreen projects?

I found in the FAQs where it says the optimal size for stills to bring into a PE project is 1000 X 750, which makes sense for a 4:3 project. What about widescreen?
And what about projects that the end user might use one of those DVD players or receivers that upscales the video to a lot more than 640 X 480? Won't a higher-rez PE project, created with stills with more pixels, end up with a better picture?

The numbers in the FAQ apply as a "rule of thumb" for DV Projects, i.e. 720 x 480.
For HD Projects, those will go up, based on the Project.
Unless one is panning on a zoomed out image, the Project Frame Size is good. For panning on a zoomed out image, one obviously needs more pixels to work with. I go with the Frame Size and PAR for the Project, with the exception for those few images that do need panning, and then calculate what I will require. I try to keep the stills to just what is required, and might end up with one folder where most images are Frame Size, then maybe two other folders, where I need to do animation, and will resize to what is needed. I Import these into separate Bins (folders), that identify what is to be done, or what the size is. This keeps the Project size down to just what's required.
Many take another tack and will pick a number, like that 1000 x 750, which will allow them "wiggle room" with ALL images. That way, if they change their edit, they do not have to go back to PS and resize, like would have to.
Maybe it's now time for Steve to rewrite the FAQ to include some HD sizes, as well? Several have gotten confused with those SD figures. The last thing that one would want would be to have an HD Project, undersize the stills, and then have to Scale up in the NLE. They'd be better to have a few extra pixels and slightly Scale down a tiny bit.
Good luck,
Hunt

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I assume this is a basic question which the answer perhaps is still easier. I´m a Premiere basic user
I´m trying to make widescreen projects and use Encore to export a DVD which the video fits perfectly LCDs and Widescreen Tvs...So my workflow is:
I´m starting new projects using the DV-NTSC Folder > Widescreen 48khz
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I know that there are many posts about file size and pixel size for optimizing photos prior to importing into iMovie or iDVD. I have read many of them, including many of them by Karl Petersen, but have been disappointed by the quality of the photos when viewed on the final DVD on my television. The problem I have it that almost ALL of my photos are portrait style and not landscape. A lot of the discussions center around avoiding pillarboxes, which I cannot avoid with vertical pictures
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Since posting the test I suggested you run, Alesse, I've done some testing of my own, with some interesting results. They aren't going to help you much, I'm afraid, but they might shed some light on the whole process of making slideshows.
I do everything I can to maximize image quality in iMovie slideshows. Then I've wondered what affect iDVD has on the result.
So today I played the same slideshow from three sources. One version from the camera, one version from iDVD and one version from a Digital Video Recorder (DVR).
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The images were delivered to the iMovie four ways:
1) I imported the sequence of images into QuickTime Player, then saved that as two DV streams, one Progressive and one Interlaced. These were dropped into the Media folder as described above. iMovie "adopted" them when I re-opened the project. (They were NOT imported by iMovie.)
2) I imported the same images with Ken Burns ON (but with no animation); and
3) I imported the same images with Ken Burns OFF.
The four clips of each image were arranged side-by-side on the Timeline, so I could easily compare their quality while played on the TV.
(The images were selected to include those that are easy to encode by iDVD and images difficult to encode — having lots of high-contrast lines like roof lines, lap-siding on buildings, telephone lines, the kind of content that tends to acquire the "jaggies". I avoided the bug where iMovie adds jaggies if you grant it permission to render UNrendered images as you export the project to iDVD or to the camera.)
I wanted to compare the quality of three kinds of slideshows:
1) the slideshow played from the camera;
2) the slideshow burned by iDVD and
3) the slideshow burned by a standalone DVR.
To make the three slideshows, I did this:
1) used iDVD to burn a DVD of the iMovie project;
2) exported the iMovie slideshow project back to the camera; and
3) connected the camera to a Digital Video Recorder (DVR) and burned a DVD on the DVR. This was so I could compare the quality of iDVD to a DVR recording.
Then I connected the camera to the TV so I could compare it, in turn, to each of the DVDs. Because each image played for a total of 16 seconds, I was able to play both the DVD and the camera simultaneously and switch the TV back and forth between the two inputs to compare the image quality of the camera to a DVD.
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• At first I thought the DVR image was better than the iDVD image, but reconsidered that later. Each had its own positive qualities. There was little difference. Each was slightly better in some respects than the other, worse in others. It was basically a wash. Both had about the same amount of jaggies, sometimes in different places.
• Another interesting result was that all the clips — from all four sources — played basically the same on the camera and on the two DVDs. There was very little difference among the four import methods. (I expected more difference.)
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• It is obvious that encoding an iMovie project to the MPEG-2 format used by a DVD — whether by iDVD or by a DVR — sacrifices quality. You won't notice it much on some images — flowers, faces, landscapes — but you will see jaggies on others.
• When the test was over, I watched a DVD slideshow of the same images I had burned a few weeks ago containing three iMovie widescreen formats: DV Widescreen, 720p, and 1080i. It was a close call, but I think they were all slightly better than the DV slideshow. Some images, especially, were better.
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If you want the best playback quality possible, use the camcorder to play the slideshow on the TV, not a DVD.
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Softening the TV picture can help. My TV offers a tremendous range of sharpness, a feature common to new TVs.
• My guess is that until we can burn Hi-Def DVDs, our huger and huger TVs are going to make the problem of DVD quality worser and worser. My slideshows would probably all look great on yesterday's "huge" 20" TV.
• I don't have DVD Studio Pro to test. Perhaps someone can compare that too?
Anyway, I hope something here helps.
Karl

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a data dvd as well just to be safe
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Now if I right click Azure Explorer, Connect to Azure...., it tells me I am signed in as who I expect, click 'Remain signed in with this account', I see error
Server Explorer
An error occurred during the sign in process: authentication_ui_failed: The browser based authentication dialog failed to complete for an unkown reason
OK
I can still interact with Azure Server explorer nodes in Azure.
Now if I right click Azure Explorer, Connect to Azure...., again and choose logout and log in with another account, enter account info, it then says I'm already signed in, I choose to remain signed in but this time get a password prompt.
I can now open my web role projects Role and now the Publish Summary has no Red X's.

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