What resolution for photos?
 

I need to put some still images in a video and I'm unsure what to scan the images at. I'm going to be using Photoshop. The footage was shot anamorphic, so I guess I need to crop the photo as if it were letterboxed (without incorporating the black bars) and then stretch it. I know how to do that in Photoshop, but I don't know what resolution the letterboxed image should be, or the final image. I know NTSC is 720 x 480, but this whole square versus rectangular pixel thing really confuses me. Oh, I'm using FinalCut. Should I save the images as a JPEGs? Also, what settings should I use in Photoshop to make sure I have a legal values?

Here is a tutorial that should answer all your questions, if not post back. You'll find some other helpful tutorials here.

Excellent links. Thank you Jeff. The short answer is to create the image in Photoshop at 960 x 534. I guess FinalCut takes it from there. Thanks again.

Hmmm, when I imported the photos it cut off the tops of people's heads. I thought you didn't have to worry about the picture safe area (for the vertical resolution anyway) with anamorphic. Am I doing something wrong?