What size should your photos be when inputting into imovie project?

When creating a project with pictures do you need to resize pictures before inputting?  If so what size?

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When creating a project with pictures do you need to resize pictures before inputting?
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    Hi, I want to prepare photos for a slideshow in iMovie HD. What size
    should the photos be so no cropping or stretching occurs??
    It's the photo prep that is a problem. The photos are like scrapbook
    layouts done in Photoshop. They have edges, like borders that I do
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    I wish I knew the dimensions in iMovie so I can make my photos that
    exact size. I have looked everywhere!
    Also, I am doing this slideshow to be shown during the half-time show at a
    charity football game. They said they need it in AVI format. I
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    or via QT.
    Thanks!

    If you want no black borders to the imported still images in 4:3 video projects, their aspect ratio must be NTSC 720x528 or PAL 788x576 or some larger multiple of those figures (NTSC 1024x751, 2048x1502, 2095x1536 etc, or PAL 1024x749, 2048x1497, 2101x1536 etc).
    If you want no black borders to the imported still images in 16:9 video projects, their aspect ratio must be NTSC 875x480 or PAL 1050x576 or some larger multiple of those figures.
    See also:
    http://www.sjoki.uta.fi/~shmhav/iMovieHD_6bugs.html#stills

  • What resolution should my photos be in Premiere Elements?

    Photos make great source files for a Premiere Elements project, but you’ll find the highest quality results and the best performance from the program if the sizes of your photos are properly optimized before you bring them into your project. We urge you to make sure that any photo you use (especially if you use several in a slideshow) has been resized to no larger than 1000x750 pixels before you bring it into your Premiere Elements project to ensure the best quality and optimal program performance. (Photos taken directly from digital cameras can be 20 to 25 times that size!)
    At first this may seem to go contrary to common wisdom. Traditionally, the higher the resolution of your photo, the better the quality of the output. But remember that Premiere Elements is a video editing program, and video is a relatively low resolution medium (essentially the equivalent of 640x480 pixels). And, to a point, reducing the resolution of a photo or graphic to be used in a video actually improves the quality of the video output. (1000x750 pixels seems to be that point)
    The reason for this has to do with a process called downsampling, the system a video program uses to bring high-resolution photos down to video size. Premiere Elements does a fair job of this – but, as any pro knows, nothing that happens automatically will be as clean or as efficient as what you do manually. “Down-rezzing” is definitely one of these things.
    There’s also a more pressing reason for downsampling your photos yourself. The process of “down-rezzing”, like the process of assimilating non-DV-AVI files into a video project, is a very intensive process. So intensive, in fact, that it’s the single biggest reason Premiere Elements fails, particularly during the disc burning process.
    It takes a lot longer for the program to down-rez a 4000x3000 pixel photo than it does a 1000x750 pixel photo. Many, many times longer. And would you rather wait an hour or two for the program to transcode your DVD or 10 hours for a process that might end up with the program choking and dying anyway?
    Photoshop Elements, by the way, has a very nice batch resizing feature that can resize a whole folder full of photos in just a few clicks. You’ll find it under the program’s File drop-menu, listed as Process Multiple Files.
    For high-definition video, you can increase the size of the photos to 2000x1500 -- although you should be aware that this will require much more processing time and computer power than standard definition video.

    Rene,
    For the ultimate viewing on an HD TV, one is best to do a BD Project and then burn to a BD (Blu-ray Disc). Going to any SD format, like DVD-Video will result in having the material up-rezed to fit. This will work to varying degrees of success, and will depend very heavily on the set-top player's uprezing capabilities, plus on the settings on the TV, as well. There WILL be quality compromises, when viewing and SD Project on an HD player and TV.
    Even with HD Projects, one is best to size the still images as closely, as is possible, to the Frame Sizes in that Project's Preset, say to only a bit more than 1920 x 1080, if that is the Preset chosen for the HD (BD) Project. Here's a LINK to the accepted HD formats.
    This ARTICLE will give tips on resizing of stills before Import. Now, the sizes listed are SD, but it's easy to "do the math" to get to a BD Project Preset size.
    Good luck, and hope that this helps,
    Hunt

  • What size should i save my pictures to make a good high def. DVD?

    Ok, I am using Elements 10 with Premere 10 to create a DVD high definition movie of our trip to Rome to display on our hi def tv. What I want to know is what size should I save my pictures after fixing them. The JPEGS are usually saved to around 2 mb while the NEF's are saved around 6-11 mb's.  I am afraid that the 2 mb files will not retain enough data to show well on the high def TV and maybe the 11 mb pictures may be overkill resulting in long rendering times and larger movie sizes. Anyone have any information on this. Both the Elements 10 and Premere 10 manuals don't address this. The only thing I could find was that they support up to 4086 x 4086 size pictures. Thanks in advance

    Hi,
    I am not an expert on this subject but since nobody has replied yet, I thought I would give you my current thoughts on the subject so then someone can either confirm it or shoot me down in flames.
    If we are talking about a HD TV, they have a screen resolution of about 1920 x 1080 or 1360 x 768 so if your images are greater than that, something has to do some down sizing.
    I think that a normal DVD can has a limitation on size of 720 x 480 (NTSC) or 720 x 576 (PAL). To get a greater resolution than that you need to talk about Blu-ray.
    The important thing to think about is the aspect ratio. The widescreen TVs are 16:9 and your photos are probably 4:3. If you want a full screen picture without black margins each side then I suggest that you do some cropping first.
    I tend to crop to 16:9 aspect ratio (using crop tool) and then resize the image to 1920 x 1080 (using image resize). I use a larger size if I know I want to use pan & zoom effects. I use that size, even though some pixels will be lost, just in case I switch to Blu-ray in the future and it might save a bit of work then.
    Hope that helps (and is correct)
    Brian

  • What size to crop photos for slideshow

    I want to play a slideshow of personal photos on my 17 in PowerBook. What size should I crop the photos so they look the best quality? Thank you.

    You probably want to build this slide show from copies of the originals, so that in the future you can regenerate the slide show for whatever size screen you have in your laptop in, say, the year 2016.
    If you want them to look perfect, crop them to the exact resolution of your PowerBook monitor. Depending on how new your PowerBook is, it might be 1440x900 (1.2 megapixels) or 1680x1050 (1.7 megapixels). Check your Displays system preference.
    You can save disk space by cropping to a lower resolution like half resolution (720x450 or 840x525). They will lose quality but might look just fine. Do some tests.

  • What size should the original image be for 100% width so it is responsive?

    What size should the original image be for 100% width so it is responsive?

    Please check these documents for details :
    https://helpx.adobe.com/muse/how-to/muse-optimize-graphics-assets.html
    https://helpx.adobe.com/muse/how-to/muse-size-resolution-graphics.html
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  • HT5117 I am producing an ibook with video and jpg images, what sizes should they be?

    I am producing an ibook with video and jpg images, what sizes should they be?
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    I and others answered a similar question only  yesterday.
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  • Videos are often stretched when put into imovie. How can I change them back?

    Videos are often stretched when put into imovie. Help!

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    If I understands it right.
    You can not. iMovie'13 (v.10) are 16x9 ONLY.
    You need a previous version of iMovie - OR - FinalCut Pro-X
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  • What size should my movies be to not get cut off?

    I am making a tutorial DVD. I used Snapz Pro to record a bunch of screen capture movies and then edited them together in FCP and exported them as 1024x768 animation movies and they look great. Now I want to burn them to DVD. When I take them as they are and put them on a DVD the top and bottom of the screen get cut off. Can I just resize the movies in QT pro to a different size so they won't cut off? If so what size? Is there a better way?

    Scott,
    A mix of this QuickTime Pro: How to Make Picture-in-Picture at http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=42633 and the following procedure I put together a couple of years ago to use the small movies produced by still digital cameras in iMovie/iDVD:
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    4. Select the DiMage X clip and then edit -> add scaled the mask
    5. Next, select movie -> get movie properties
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    will give you an idea on how to proceed. Obviously, you will need to come up with your own mask and cut-out size - 640x480 ISN'T what YOU want.

  • Should your photos all be in the photo section or albums?

    I cant figure out how the pics should be organized. When I upload a pic through blogger it opens the photo section of iphoto and all the pics come up as one folder!! 10000 pics in one folder! If you put them in separate albums will this help this out? If I change them into separate albums will the photos not be in the photo part anymore?

    So you are calling the photo button the library?
    I'm not sure what your question is - there is an iPhoto library which is a special kind of folder called a "package" - by default the iPhoto library is in your pictures folder - You do not need to and should not be going into it
    Im new to mac in general so maybe this isnt helping. How do I categorize the pics then?
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    When I imported the library from my old computer they were all in files with subfolders, when I put into i photo they busted out into all separate folders. I dont like it like this, there are way too many folders. Thats why I want to redo them into separate albums I guess.
    Again do not go into the iPhoto library and forget about its contents and how it is organized - it makes no difference - you access the photos (not the files) using the tools provided and described in the link on my previous post
    You also probably should invest a few minutes in watching the iPhoto tutorials - http://www.apple.com/findouthow/photos/
    LN

  • What size should a website mockup be in 2015

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  • What size should my .itl library file be for 7000 tracks?

    This will seen like a very strange question but how large should an .itl library file be? The reason that I ask is that I'm trying to get my iTunes files back in place on a new PC & I find that I have 2 old .itl files & don't know which one to import.
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  • What size should i make a web video in after effects?

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    I am new to photoshop and need to understand what size and/or quality (color type?) the original photo has to be in order to be able to eventually print the image as large as 17X22 for posters.

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