What size must an image be for iMovie?

Hi Apple Community


Am wanting to add some stills to an iMovie production.

What is the ideal size for these images in pixels?


Kind Regards

Chris

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.5)

Posted on Mar 24, 2015 12:03 PM

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Mar 24, 2015 12:33 PM in response to Cristofer Jamz

video nowadays comes in two resolutions:

1280x720

1920x1080


If you plan to do excessive Ken Burns, for sure more (then you can pan along a whole coastline, for example)


and before anybody asks: NO, for video, the dpi is of no use! a 1920x1080 in 72dpi has the same quality than a 1000dpi or a 5dpi pic.


Much more important is the grade-of-compression ... a 20MioPixel pic,, squeezed into a 12.3kB jpg looks after done into 'video' terrible... (key word banding) ....

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