iMovie Titles Using Photoshop

[Samuel Barksdale]

> Date: Tue,  9 Sep 2003 06:03:13 -0700
> From: "Dennis R. Cohen" <drcohen at mac.com>
> Subject: [MacDV] Re: iMovie Titles Using Photoshop
> Message-ID: <r02000100-1026-F88E40C6E2C511D79D05003065A8B4B2@[12.234.207.201]>
> 
> On 9/8/03 at 9:13 PM, Scott Wm Eastman <FunnyBoy at netnet.net> transmitted
> the following electronic message:
> 
>> 
>> Hello!
>> 
>> I'm new to the list but have a question regarding a project I'm
>> working on.
>> 
>> I've just started working in iMovie (for a commercial video project)
>> and figured it was gonna be a no-brainer to create title screens in
>> photoshop and bring them in to iMovie... Well, I was right about how
>> easy it was... I didn't foresee having difficutly with the
>> resolution.
>> 
>> I created a RGB graphic in photoshop (2560 x 1920 @ 150 dpi), but it
>> gets horribly pixelated in iMovie...
>> 
>> Has anyone ever created titling images in photoshop for an iMovie
>> project? If so.... What were the dimensions / resolution settings you
>> used?
>> 
> 
> 640x480, 72dpi is what is recommended. You're also going to want to make
> sure that you use an NTSC-compatible color palette.
> 
> Photoshop's "New" document dialog provides a number of video presets.
> 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).
> 
> --Dennis Cohen
> Mac Digital Photography (Sept 2003)
> iLife Bible
> Mac OS X Bible
> and other titles

If I'm using PAL instead of NTSC, what dimensions would I use instead? Does
iMovie do the same conversion from square to rectangular pixel with PAL as
it does with NTSC?

Samuel