Subject: Re: Graphics resolutions for video
From: Joe <[email-masked]>
To: Dennis Rowley <[email-masked]>
Cc: lightwave list <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 10 Aug 1995 07:09:21 -0400 (EDT)

> When rendering graphics, e.g. on Photoshop, at 640x480 size in order to 
> transfer to video and do DVE's, what is the ideal resolution (dpi) to work 
> with so that you don't use anymore storage space than necessary, but do 
> not compromise on the final video output?
> 	One production outfit has said that going higher than 72dpi was 
> useless, since NTSC didn't do any better than this, but I have seen that 
> a higher dpi number WILL keep things cleaner.  But how high do you go?

Assuming you are using a toaster, a good place to start would be 752 by 480.
You might give a thought to aspect ratio when you do the resizing and 
fill in the sides instead of resizing by proportion so you don't stretch 
the width of your original 640 by 480.
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