Hi,
I would like to make a HD slideshow, which will be played on a big screen. I wonder what resolution I should make my photo's. I would like the photo's to be as sharp as possible. Could anyone advise me ?
iMac (27-inch Mid 2010), iOS 6.1.4
72ppi at whatever your HD project resoltuion is, unless you plan on animating the image.
Thank you Tom. But will this leave a picture sharp enough on a really
big screen? Is there any reason why I should'nt leave it as
big as possible to guarantee a super quality or will this slow down fcp x unneccessarily?
What size (in mb) do you advise as a maximum ? I am going
to use Ken Burns effect, that's all. Thanks!
To ask a more specific question: what size and res is best
For cropping a picture in Photoshop for use in a f p x slideshow....
Maybe I was not specific enough earlier...sorry.
Video is completely different from print. There are exact specifications for HD. Making your image 5000 pixels across will do nothing for you except making the compression process more complex and more likely to produce artifacts. The file size is not really relevant because it depends on the format. TIFF files are bigger than PNG, which are usually bigger than JPEG. HD frame resolution is all that matters. There are two standards essentially 1920x1080 and 1280x720. Of the four US networks two broadcast in one and two in the other. The size of the television is not relevant. If you want to do so-called Ken Burns effects you should probably make the images twice the HD screen resolution that you're using. In FCP set the spatial conform to none and use the effect so the image is never scaled beyond 115% of its full size. Using an image twice HD size should give you enough wiggle room. Remember video is not RAW. Its delivery formats are always compressed, often quite heavily, so a super-sharp image might not be a great benefit, and in fact a hindrance.
Size pictures in hd slideshow
