16:9 and 4:3 resize?

[Guest]

Hi
I understand the resize of the photos to Height 576 but I am wondering what
is meant by crop to 16:9 or 4:3 as I have not come accross this before.
As a bonus question I wonder if I could convert from JPG to TIF as oposed to
BMP as that will preserve the metadata?? of the file [not that I know what
the metadata is]
Thank's

 

[PapaJohn \(MVP\)]

Sure on the bonus question, TIF works fine.

I think it's a matter of semantics about the cropping/sizing. The pixel
dimensions of still pix should be in 16:9 or 4:3 ratios. You can crop and/or
resize as needed to end up with the appropriate images.
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[Rehan]

I am wondering what

is meant by crop to 16:9 or 4:3

Some image programs such as Adobe's Photoshop and Jasc PSP allow specifying
a crop rectangle to pre-specified ratios such as 4:3, 16:9. If you donthave
such a tool you may use the following approach to achieve the same result.

Resize your image first so that its smaller dimension is the same as the
corresponding dimension of the following sizes.

768 x 576 for 4:3 PAL
640 x 480 for 4:3 NTSC
1024 x 576 for 16:9 PAL
854 x 480 for 16:9 NTSC

Then crop away the other dimension to match up the above size exactly.

For example if you are making 4;3 NTSC movie and your still image size is
3000 x 2000 you can resize it first to 720x480 (keeping the original aspect
ratio) and then crop the result to 640x480 by removing the extra 80 pixels
from left or right or 40 pixels each from both sides.

--
Rehan
www.rehanfx.org - get transitions and effects for Windows MovieMaker

Hi
I understand the resize of the photos to Height 576 but I am wondering
what
is meant by crop to 16:9 or 4:3 as I have not come accross this before.
As a bonus question I wonder if I could convert from JPG to TIF as oposed
to
BMP as that will preserve the metadata?? of the file [not that I know what
the metadata is]
Thank's

 

[Rehan]

Resize your image first so that its smaller dimension is the same as the

corresponding dimension of the following sizes.

hmmm, not exactly true. rephrase:

Resize your image first so that its one dimension is the same as the
corresponding dimension of the following sizes while the other side is
atleast
or more than other dimension.

768 x 576 for 4:3 PAL
640 x 480 for 4:3 NTSC
1024 x 576 for 16:9 PAL
854 x 480 for 16:9 NTSC

The idea is to fill up the above frame with pixels without distorting your
image. you can do the cropping first or resizing. For 16:9 target frame will
have to fit the width when resizing in the above example.

May be somebody should make a utility to do all this... or may be one exists
already :-/



--
Rehan
www.rehanfx.org - get more effects and transitions for movie maker

I am wondering what
is meant by crop to 16:9 or 4:3

Some image programs such as Adobe's Photoshop and Jasc PSP allow
specifying a crop rectangle to pre-specified ratios such as 4:3, 16:9. If
you donthave such a tool you may use the following approach to achieve the
same result.

Resize your image first so that its smaller dimension is the same as the
corresponding dimension of the following sizes.

768 x 576 for 4:3 PAL
640 x 480 for 4:3 NTSC
1024 x 576 for 16:9 PAL
854 x 480 for 16:9 NTSC

Then crop away the other dimension to match up the above size exactly.

For example if you are making 4;3 NTSC movie and your still image size is
3000 x 2000 you can resize it first to 720x480 (keeping the original
aspect ratio) and then crop the result to 640x480 by removing the extra 80
pixels from left or right or 40 pixels each from both sides.

--
Rehan
www.rehanfx.org - get transitions and effects for Windows MovieMaker

Hi
I understand the resize of the photos to Height 576 but I am wondering
what
is meant by crop to 16:9 or 4:3 as I have not come accross this before.
As a bonus question I wonder if I could convert from JPG to TIF as oposed
to
BMP as that will preserve the metadata?? of the file [not that I know
what
the metadata is]
Thank's