On Mar 22, 2006, at 5:03 AM, Jim Simmons wrote: > >> On Mar 21, 2006, at 6:42 PM, Jim Simmons wrote: >> >>> I have successfully transfer video tapes to DVD format and >>> achieved good results. Now I am getting set to transfer a large >>> number of 35 mm slides to a DVD for a slide show. Before I get >>> too far down this road I feel that I should get some comments and >>> suggestions on the approach I have in mind. >>> >>> I plan on creating the slide show in iMovie HD and iDVD 5.0. I >>> will be adding sound to the slide presentation. I am scanning the >>> slides at 300 dpi and saving in the TIFF format. I then open them >>> in Photoshop CS2 and perform color corrections because some of >>> these slide are 45 to 50 years old. I then save them in the >>> Photoshop format and will eventually create an album for iPhoto >>> and them insert into iMovie. The image size of the scans are the >>> same as the size of the original slides. Does this sound like a >>> reasonable approach or should the scan resolution be increased? >> >> If I understand you correctly, you say you will be scanning the >> slides at 100% and 300 dpi. Is this correct? I would think that >> would be too small, especially considering all the time you will >> be spending on color correction, etc. >> >> I would think that you would want to scan at a resolution that you >> could make reasonably large prints with them and have them still >> look good. Usually, if you want good 4x6 prints you would want at >> least 150 dpi. (approx. 600x800) if not way more (1200x1600 +?). >> Scanning a slide 100% - 300 dpi would yeild what, 480x640 at best?. >> >> Personally I would scan at the highest optical resolution of your >> scanner and go from there. If you scan higher than the optical >> resolution, then your scanning software is introducing >> interpolation (guesses) into the scan. >> >> iDVD provides a method to store Hi-Res images from the slide show >> on DVD. This would provide the best of both worlds. You can view >> the pictures on your DVD player and also put the DVD into a >> computer for printing of the pictures. >> >> Good luck, >> -- >> Nick Scalise >> nickscalise at cox.net >> > > Hi Nick, > > So far I've only scanned one slide at 100% and 300 dpi. My > scanner, an Epson Expression 1600, can scan at 1600 dpi with no > problem. I am using the VueScan software program as my scanning > software of choice. I can set the scanned output to be any of the > sizes in which photographic prints are produced. So should I select > a scanned image which is larger than the original 35 mm slide? > > I think I have trouble trying to visualize how iMovie will handle > different sizes in images. Eventually I will be scanning 8x10 > photographs and combining these with scans of smaller photos and > slides in a slide show. I guess my question is this, does iMovie > handle different sizes in input images to produce video images of > approximately the same size on a video screen, or will the 35mm > slides appear small and the larger photos too large? Should all > input images be the same size before being put into iMovie or iDVD? > I have a feeling that they should all be the same size but at the > present don't know what that size is. > > Thanks, > > Jim > _______________________________________________ > iMovie should just "fill" the screen with the photo. You could scan a few of your various sized photos, bring them into iMovie to verify what iMovie will do. iMovie really doesn't care about dpi, it just has a final resolution of 72 dpi no matter what the resolution is of the photo. I agree with Nick, scan at hight resolution possible on the scanner. Dave