HDV frame size?

Yes, if you're doing a Motion graphic, it should be 1920x1080.

The HDV image plays at 1920x1080 (16x9) but is recorded onto miniDV format, which is only capable of 1440x1080, so the image gets squashed during recording and unsquashed during playback. It's the nature of the format.

OZ

so say if i wanna make a presentation with both hd film and photos from cs2, i'll have to output the pictures from cs2 as 1920x1080, square pixels and 72dpi (or could i go higher here?) and when i output them to minidvd they 'll look fine? sorry for the bad english but i've been working all night
thanks
jazz

Yep. 72dpi is fine for video resolution. Just make sure you output to HDV or another 16x9 format. If you output to a 4x3 format (miniDV, for example), you'll have a squashed image.

You are correct about how to create graphics in Photoshop CS2. My suggestion would be to use the Photoshop preset for new documents called...

HDTV, 1920x1080 (with guides)

Tangent begins here...

dpi is not relevant to video.

Short story...

It is because people could watch your video or film production on a five inch screen in the back of a mini-van or a forty six inch plasma in the basement.

Long story..

You choose the number of pixels your viewer sees once – regardless of the size of the screen they watch it on.

That choice is the delivery format. The choice of delivery format is related to the choice of acquision and editing formats. Each should inform the other.

The other consideration besides the number of pixels is compression – but this is not directly relevant to why dpi is not a real number for video production.

For instance, you might shoot HDV, edit in DV, and output to DVD.

This is two different pixel resolutions and three different compressions. However if the work is thoughtfully done, these images can work well regardless of whether it is presented on a 5" screen or a 42" screen.

dpi is a print term because In print you generally know how large the output surface will be. Because the image does not move in a print image (as opposed to a video image) their is also less to distract you from low resolution.

dpi combined with the size of your output determines the number of pixels in a print document.

The .tif file you send off to the printer go get business cards made would not blow up well to be printed on a billboard. That would require more pixels given the same dpi.

Does this make sense?

Tom

makes a lot of sense, thank you very much...