Please help me figure this out.
Ok, I have my 2 grocery bags of drawings and I am ready to get them into the computer. I have 2 projects that are each about 6 minutes.
I have access to a pencil test set up and image capture through Premiere, but the image quality is not so good. (The camera makes a lovely fish eye, low value contrast image that is out of focus.) So I am looking at taking stills with my still digital camera, batching the images in Photoshop to change the image size and fix the histogram, and then importing to Premiere. What image size do I want?
For the end product I want to make a dvd so 640 x 480 @ 72dpi? Do I save this as a jpeg or would another format be better? It is also in my mind that I might want to transfer to 35 mm (if I am really such a genius as I think I am), but what resolution would that require?
Thankyou for any tips, Jill
To make a DVD, your resolution should be 720x480.
Do you not have access to a scanner? That is your best bet in order to ensure that all the drawings are registered properly. There is no worse feeling in the world than when you get 3/4 of the way through a pile of drawings with a camera, and a cat (or something) bumps the camera, and screws up your registration.
I would look into picking up a scanner if I were you, as they are dirt cheap now. Then you tape a peg bar (the thin aluminum ones work best) to it, and you are off...
Good luck with that.
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also
if you have a machine that can handle it
its nice to work a bit bigger in size for coloring and processes(FX, colorcorrections etc.)
say 150 % (1080 x 720)
and when the project is finished scale back to NTSC (720 x 480)
this will tie the whole thing more together
Peter Wassink - Digital 2D Animator
What paper size are you using? 12 field paper doesn'tfit too nicely on the averagee scanner. Large format scanners are a wee bit spendy. Be aware that I have not priced these things, I know the one at school (bought a couple of years ago) was $5000. It's a monster, and so fast!
Ahem, anyway. A scanner would be best. If you are planning to do more final output, indie work and such, then maybe the splurge for a scanner is worth it.
What about going to a copy store? They have scanners and all sorts of doo-dads. Perhaps they can scan in all your drawings. Worth a chack for prices and such.
Hope we'll get to see your stuff soon.
Best of luck.
ciao,
MicahToons
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computer time at the copy store is expensive. You can get a scanner from sixty five dollars plus tax, new. Mine works fine and it only cost me seventy five dollars. If you've already got photoshop, scan them directly in to there and you'll have great image quality.
A shopping bag of drawings would cost more money in the long run to use copy center computers for.
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