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Scanning Pictures to Video

X-Tom
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Oct 30, 2003, 10:11 PM

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Please help me. I am having a problem when I scan a picture to my computer and then putting into my timeline. I am using Adobe Premiere 6.0 to transfer my pictures to video. What I am experiencing is that quite a few of my pictures are distorted by them being strecth (wider) and making the people in them look fatter and blurrier than the orginal picture. I sure that it has something to do with the still image picture numbers under the listed picture. I don't have any control over this. I even stopped cropping and resizing my pictures, to no success. Any help shall be appreciated. Thank you in advance.........Tom

X-Doug_Graham
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Oct 31, 2003, 9:04 AM

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Tom,
This is due to the pixels in television land being a different shape than the pixels in computer land.
TV pixels have a pixel aspect ratio of 0.9, meaning that they are taller than they are wide. Computers use square pixels.
When you scan or crop your images, use a size of 720x540, or any multiple of those numbers. When you import into Premiere, set "Preserve aspect ratio" in Premiere's image properties. Or, if that doesn't work with your system, then just before you save your image from Photoshop, Resize the entire image to 720x480, squashing it slightly.
Regards,
Doug Graham