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Vince Halushka · March 26th, 2008, 08:54 PM

What isthe best way to maintain full quality photos.
I am trying to import a jpeg that was likely created at 300 dpi from a spreadsheet program and exported to jpeg. It looks fine when I open the files, but after import into Imovie it gets grainy.
Any ideas how to get the best quality from a publisher file to mac?
Export file options ??

Adrinn Chellton · March 26th, 2008, 09:10 PM

Hmm, I downloaded the image and opened it in PS. It seems that it was compressed pretty heavily on export and is only coming up as 150 Dpi, it shows large and pronounced compression artifacts around the text and flags.

Is there any way you get them to make another copy exported at a better setting, maybe even as a tiff/bitmap instead, I'm not absolutely sure what formats Imovie can handle. Another thing to consider is you want to convert it to the proper size(720x480 for example) for your video format in Photoshop or a similar program BEFORE you import it into Imovie. That will help some even if you cannot get better copy of the image.

Vince Halushka · March 28th, 2008, 09:58 AM

Ok here is what we tried. We exported the image as a tiff, imported it into Imovie..rendered it to a 20 second avi, re imported into the movie sequence and good to go...trial and error.

March 26th, 2008, 08:54 PM	#1
Vince Halushka Regular Crew Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Yellowknife canada Posts: 74	Adding images to a video What isthe best way to maintain full quality photos. I am trying to import a jpeg that was likely created at 300 dpi from a spreadsheet program and exported to jpeg. It looks fine when I open the files, but after import into Imovie it gets grainy. Any ideas how to get the best quality from a publisher file to mac? Export file options ?? Attached Thumbnails

March 26th, 2008, 09:10 PM	#2
Adrinn Chellton Regular Crew Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Carlsbad, CA Posts: 195	Hmm, I downloaded the image and opened it in PS. It seems that it was compressed pretty heavily on export and is only coming up as 150 Dpi, it shows large and pronounced compression artifacts around the text and flags. Is there any way you get them to make another copy exported at a better setting, maybe even as a tiff/bitmap instead, I'm not absolutely sure what formats Imovie can handle. Another thing to consider is you want to convert it to the proper size(720x480 for example) for your video format in Photoshop or a similar program BEFORE you import it into Imovie. That will help some even if you cannot get better copy of the image.

March 28th, 2008, 09:58 AM	#3
Vince Halushka Regular Crew Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Yellowknife canada Posts: 74	Ok here is what we tried. We exported the image as a tiff, imported it into Imovie..rendered it to a 20 second avi, re imported into the movie sequence and good to go...trial and error.