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I want to create an animated gif to be used
as titles for my film. The film is on Mini-Dv.
What size image does the gif have to be to film
the screen? Cheers.
 
Posts: 16 | Location: Durham, England | Registered: December 23, 2002Reply With QuoteEdit or Delete MessageReport This Post
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If you're sending it out through firewire it's best at 720x480.


smaller sizes are 640x480 and 320x240
 
Posts: 218 | Location: Art Center College of Design | Registered: November 26, 2002Reply With QuoteEdit or Delete MessageReport This Post
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I would strongly recommend against using an animated gif for a title. gifs are not very high quality.

Simply create an animated title in your editing application.

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Posts: 2303 | Location: Los Angeles, CA U.S.A | Registered: October 30, 2002Reply With QuoteEdit or Delete MessageReport This Post
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MiniDV is a fixed resolution. 720x480 is good if you're using a NTSC (re: american) camera. If you're in Europe (PAL), then you need to render it at 720x576.

Make sure you render at 30 frames per second for NTSC or 25 frames per second for PAL.

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Posts: 253 | Location: Newcastle, UK | Registered: November 04, 2002Reply With QuoteEdit or Delete MessageReport This Post
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also, if you do decide to create a text/graphic outside of your NLE program, remember that TVs have a .9 aspect ratio and computer monitors are 1. This means you need to horizontally squish your text/graphic to make it look right on TVs.

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Well this doesn't really have anything to do with aspect ratio...just that computer monitors use square pixels and TV's (NTSC and PAL) use non-square pixels.

NTSC pixels are taller then they are wide and PAL is wider than they are tall.

Design your graphics at 720x540 72dpi and then resize them to 720x480 before importing into your editing program and all will be well.

Avid does this conversion automatically...Other NLE's do not.

-Chris
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yeah, sorry, I meant PIXEL aspect ratio. NTSC= 0.91:1 PAL=1.06:1 VGA= 1:1

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