Printing Images to Video

[mmilburn]

Can anyone help with regard to printing scanned images to video tape.
I have several scanned pictures which i want to `print` to video tape.
The images are 2198 x 2201 pixels in size. Using Photoshop (with keep proportions) i resized the photos to 704 x Height. Height being what ever is in proportion with 704. They do not always come out at the desirable 704 x 576 size. The pictures once rendered in MSP appear to be distorted. ie.the people in the pictures appear to be shorter and fatter in size. Can someone tell me how i would get the pictures to look normal.
My hardware is a PCI Mill2+RRS using MSP 5.2
Cheers


Martin

[This_Idiot]

Martin,

try making up a "standard" template pic of 704*x (576 or 480 depending) with a background colour of your choice (mebbe black or white ?). Then resize your snaps to 704 * (whatever to keep aspect ratio), copy and paste onto the template background. Save under a new name and then import to your favourite editing package with a suitable duration.

Now print to tape

[rvangorp]

I have done this with hundreds of photos. MSP 5.2 will stretch the image to fit the standard 4:3 ratio TV window. You have to provide it with an image that is in that proportion by whatever means you have available. I put the photo on a 4:3 ratio canvas that is larger than the photo, then stretch the photo, maintaining its proportions, to fill out to the vertical or horizontal edges, whichever comes first. I then fill the blank areas of the canvas with black. This new image can be inserted in the video without distortion of the original picture.

[Cut ter]

What's the best Format to use to render for output in NLE (premiere / MSP)
I have tryied everything and I find that Tiff takes longer but b/c it's uncompressed it looks way better. Tis is specially true for long and with moving paths photo videos.

I have A

Graphic file I use in beg. copyright stuff
can I avoid the Specs (Pixels) effect MJpeg produces w/ Black Background against white text area.?