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From: iballooka on 9 Nov 2009 20:25 On 2009-11-09 14:07:32 +0000, Elliott Roper <nospam(a)yrl.co.uk> said: > In article <1j8wu9f.o0cu7d1etg996N%info(a)that.sundog.co.uk>, SM > <info(a)that.sundog.co.uk> wrote: > >> iballooka <kamtek(a)nospam.hotmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Hope for some help on a workflow... >>> >>> Objective >>> >>> Transfer around 500 Tiff Images onto a DVD to play on 1080p HD LCD TV >>> >>> Image quality the utmost priority. > > You won't get the best quality off an ordinary DVD. You will be limited > to 720*576 pixels and with a 1080p display, those 720 pixels will be > very landscaped indeed. > > In FCP set your project to PAL DV anamorphic. > You could import all 500 of them into your FCP bins and work on them > from there. > I can't see any alternative to cropping by hand if your pictures are > not already 16:9. I'd use Aperture to do that. Crop one with the crop > rectangle centred, lift, select all the others and stamp. Adjust one by > one to taste. About 2 sec each plus thinking time. Export as jpg within > 1920*1080 (as long as they are all larger to start with). > > Or, I'd bust 'em all back to jpg with GraphicConverter's convert and > modify, and probably look at a renaming exercise there if there were > some criterion like image date that would put them into a sensible > order. > > You could do the almost whole job in GraphicConverter if you were happy > with a constant interval between slides. It can produce a movie that > you could give straight to FCS's Compressor to burn your DVD. > > However, before doing all that work, check your 1080p telly does not > have a USB in for flash cards. Then you could throw all your newly > created jpgs onto it and run the slide show from the telly. I'd > estimate about 5 minutes human time and about 20 minutes elapsed to > prepare the whole disaster. (Oh plus how long you want to spend > cropping to 16:9) I have opted for a simpler solution given by Martin-S the time scale I have short.... I will explore Graphic Convertor and your solution once I have this outta way, it will have my holidays off to the Far East on Weds, Thailand, Vietnam. Cambodia visiting family and friends.... Thanks for the advice... -- Mike ------------ Peace and Happiness is a State of Mind......
From: Martin-S on 9 Nov 2009 20:46
In article <hdaf72$m3n$1(a)news.eternal-september.org>, iballooka <kamtek(a)nospam.hotmail.com> wrote: > This solution is very practical for the time scale I have, thanks... Just make sure the images are laid out flat on the disc and not in any sub-folders like so... Image Disc - image-001.jpg - image-002.jpg - image-003.jpg You can actually use the full-size images, but then the DVD player will perform the scaling on-the-fly and that takes extra time, so it's best to scale them down in advance. -- Martin |