dpi stills for HD?

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Chris Howe Author

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dpi stills for HD?

What is the right dpi setting for importing photoshop work (JPG's and such). NTSC always 72. Has that changed for HD?

Mac G5 dual core 2 Ghz 4Gb ram, Mac OS X (10.4.11), Decklink Extreme PCIe card, G-RAID 1/2T drive

Posted on Nov 18, 2010 5:31 AM

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Answer 1

Tom Wolsky

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Nov 18, 2010 5:40 AM in response to Chris Howe

dpi stands for dots per inch. This is a printing function. The more dots you can pack into an inch the better the print quality. The number of pixels across an image is fixed by standards, for instance 1920 pixels across for some HD media. You can't pack in more pixels to get better resolution. The pixel size and number is fixed. Basically it's not a relevant function to video or computer displays, only to print.

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Chris Howe Author

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Nov 18, 2010 5:46 AM in response to Tom Wolsky

I get your point. I was always under a great misconception then. Last night, I resized some photos in photoshop by changing the dpi, and actually sped up the automation of the rescaling process by not having to personally enter a new dimension each time. Thanks.

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darbypsnm

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Nov 18, 2010 7:55 AM in response to Chris Howe

If you aren't trying to do Ken Burns moves and the images doesn't need to be scaled in some way from the original you shouldn't have to go above 1920x1080. If it is larger FC will just scale it down.

I thought the recommendation was not to have stills larger than 4000x4000.

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