With Edius 5 to edit photos (slides). I look for info

[Ulisse]

Hi, with Edius 5 could I edit photos and to make a projection (static slides)?
Then I'd like to export them to tape. In your opinion will I get good slides or will I get poor images? How could I export from the timeline to tape to get the best slides?
thanks

[Rusty]

I think that depends on how good your destination output is.
If you will show on HD projectors to 20' screens, an SD project will be noticably poor.
But for most, SD projects on 10' screens look good enough.

So start with big enough images, but not too big! 72 dpi is fine for video. Some have imported 7mb files with disasterous results. Somewhere around 2-3mb should be fine. Anton will recommend .tiff files, so I'll be backing him up here.

[Ulisse]

But for most, SD projects on 10' screens look good enough.

I will use a good projector. I will project it on the sheet (180 cm).

So start with big enough images, but not too big! 72 dpi is fine for video. Some have imported 7mb files with disasterous results. Somewhere around 2-3mb should be fine. Anton will recommend .tiff files, so I'll be backing him up here.

My photos are digital pictures. I'm sorry but I like to understand fine: how many dpi are a digital picture (around)? Therefore have I to decrease every picture to 72 dpi before exporting to tape? Could I to work in HDV or have I to work in HD?

[SRsupport]

Imaginate is still king.

[Ulisse]

Imaginate is still king.

But will I get more image quality than Edius 5?

[Rusty]

Imaginate will give best quality within Edius.
If the images are static (not moving) I don't think there will be an improvment.

I made this last week with 1450 1536x1024px. 209kb(+/-) .jpg's The original project was 1920x1080.
So big files are not important. Motion was added with the Layout tool.

You can work in HDV/1440x1080 and export to DVD or tape easily.
My point is to avoid large image file sizes. Your computer will work more easily to edit. What you have already may be ok, but use Photoshop to batch-convert to smaller .tiff files.

[rokclimr]

Does imaginate work with HDV??

Thanks
Brad

[Rusty]

Yes, and full HD projects! (1920x1080)

[ibgp3]

I'm using a demo version to decide if I want to do this, and it doesn't seem to match up with what I'm reading here.
In a post above it says use .tif files. My demo is happy with .jpg, but refused to load a .tif file.
In another thread it says I'll get the best quality if I use the project file from imaginate (.ivt) in edius. My demo drops the project file as .ivp and the edius program won't open that.

My concern is that when I load the still and the .avi from Imaginate into edius there is a visible loss of quality in the .avi.

thanks for any help
GP

[antonsvideo]

in order to use tif or tga files in Edius, Quicktime player must be installed and possibly version 7 or higher

IVT files work perfect, I use them all day long

[tingsern]

My Imaginate produces IVP files (not IVT) - which I import directly into EDIUS 5.11 without problems. I have never seen IVT files before. I import JPEG (saved using Photoshop High Quality compression) or TIFF files into Imaginate ...

[antonsvideo]

I was following the posters typos, so IVP it is and has always been