Jeffraham
Wed Dec 29 23:51:31 CST 2004
"firefighter965" <firefighter965@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote
> When I try to put still pictures in the time line or even just preview
> them
> from the imported file, they are blurry and look like crap.
A good rule of thumb is to pull all your stills into
an image editing application, and make sure they
all fit (and if need be, are cropped) to the final output
size (in pixels, width and height) of the finished clip --
or if your image is much larger than that, an exact
multiple of those numbers (final output is standard
NTSC 4:3 aspect = 720w x 480h, so a 1440 x 960
photo will work well).
In the above instance, I would open a new Photoshop
file, 720 pixels wide by 480 high, and paste each
successive photo into it (using the file itself as a kind
of cropping window), scaling as needed and saving
each as I go.
If you don't have Photoshop, here's a great, free
app that is supposed to eventually replace MSPaint:
http://www.eecs.wsu.edu/paint.net/downloads.html
Btw, if the image is smaller than the final output size,
you can scale it up, but the picture will lose quality,
to a degree. TVs can't even reproduce the quality
(dots per inch, or DPI) that a computer monitor can,
so you can play around with scaling up, and see if
the results are acceptable.
.