Re: Creating a video montage
- From: "AKA gray asphalt" <goodidea1950@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2005 00:49:23 -0800
"jav" <jvogt03@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:z7Sdnc9jhOBTxhPenZ2dnUVZ_t-dnZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>I have a sister celebrating a 70th birthday and I wanted to give her
> the gift of a video montage. I am compiling 100-150 photos from
> years past to include with background music and transitions/fades.
>
> I have some basic skills with Photoshop CS2. I purchased an
> Epson 4990 scanner and am planning to scan old prints and 35mm
> slides, touch them up and crop in Photoshop then transfer the digital
> files to a CD-ROM. I wanted to take the CD-ROM and music CD's
> to a videographer for making the final DVD. I contacted a local
> firm who seemed to discourage me, saying they usually take the
> raw prints and photos, scan them and make the DVD. I want to do
> the scanning myself to have greater control on cropping and image
> adjustments (levels, curves, USM, etc). I may continue looking for
> a firm which can work with me on this.
>
> My question: what file format and file size would be most ideal for
> transferring to the DVD for a montage? Is JPEG the ideal, and if so
> what size? Any other considerations?
>
> How difficult would it be to do the whole project myself? Is there a
> software package for making such a montage which is user-friendly
> and competent?
>
> Thanks for any advice.........
Get some audio. Your own memories or better yet a bunch of family
members talking about the memories that the pictures bring up.
You can do the scans yourself but I used a digital camera mounted
on a piece of plywood. It is a lot faster and quite good if you have
a pretty good digital camera. Positioning the pictures on a scanner
and the 30-60 seconds per scan takes a long time while a camera
can do the same thing basically at about 3 times the speed in my
experience and you don't have to have the same setting for the pictures
with the camera as you do with a scanner. I know the math looks kind
of questionable but I wouldn't do it any other way now.
Any version of PhotoShop will be fine for adjusting the quality of the
pictures and the version you have as, I think, most if not all of the
previous versions do macros called 'actions'. You can change the
saturation and gamma of your pics by setting up some nice little
actions. When in button mode that is much easier than using the menus.
When you show the video which can be produced by a lot of different
programs (I'm thinking about using Adobe Elements for the first cut of
my next project) but having the ability to coordinate the pics with the
audio once you get it comes with higher end packages. I use Media Studio
Pro for that. People here might know of programs that are much cheaper
and do the same thing which is to let you mark the audio where you want
the pictures to change and it brings them in and sets the duration of the
stills to match the audio.
You've done the main thing though which is to have the pictures in the first
place. Technology and services by others will progress as time goes on and
people will have great things that they will take for granted that we can't
even imagine but no one will be able to go back and take missed pictures
and Audio is so important. I only have one recording of my mother's voice,
none of my son's when he was a child and none of my grandson until age
six.
Good thing to be doing. Don't worry about it being perfect. It will thrill and
make your sister and your friends and other family feel warm and apprciated.
.
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