[MacDV] Re: iMovie Titles Using Photoshop

Erica Sadun erica at mindspring.com
Tue Sep 9 08:07:17 PDT 2003


At 9:09 AM -0500 9/9/03, Steven Rogers wrote:
>On Tuesday, September 9, 2003, at 08:54 AM, Jon Blumhagen wrote:
>
>>>The problem is that iMovie wants 640x480 and does the conversion 
>>>from square pixels to rectangular pixels itself (getting you to 
>>>the NTSC 720x480 DV resolution).
>>
>>You mean iMovie does the "stretch" itself?
>
>I've heard this before - that iMovie wants 640x480 - but if you look 
>at the assets in the iMovie media folder, they're 720x480, so I 
>would infer that's what iMovie works at.

iMovie wants 4:3. It doesn't have to be 640x480.

This lets you design your art in Photoshop with the
same aspect that you'll see it on your TV.

- Erica



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