[MacDV] Slide show approach

[rgb at ellerbach.com]

On Tue, March 21, 2006 7:42 pm, Jim Simmons said:
> 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

What is large? 50? 200? If it is more than a hundred or so you might want
to consider getting one of the middle-of-the-road slide scanners. You'll
get better results than the falt-bed scanners will give you.

Regardless of which scanner you use scan them at the highest pixel count
you can; you don't want to have to do it again so you want the most
flexibility you can have for future work.

Then do the colour correction and image editing work needed and archive
the full-size tiff files.

Once you have that done then repurpose your files for the video medium: do
an automated conversion to video size (720 x 480 pixels - you may need to
play with the exact pixel size to suit your needs, try a few before you
decide on the exact dimensions) and maybe do a touch of re-sharpening and
move them into iPhoto. You don't want to have iPhoto or iMovie doing the
resampling down to video size for you since you have much better control
of the post-resampling image in Photoshop.

BTW, if you are going to do pan&scan&zoom on any of these skip the
resampling step and use one of the dedicated programs (photo-to-movie or
still-life) to create the DVstream file.

Now make your DVD.

Rich