How to film Photos

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Giganova

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Hi all --

I wan to include some vintage black/white photographs in my doc (pan across the photos, zoom in & out). What's the best way to shoot photos? I have them in digital format (300 dpi PDF files). Should I film them from a high-quality screen or make printouts and film the printouts?

Thanks for your help!
 
If you have them in digital format, you're halfway there. Just use your editing software to do the pan/scan/zoom (if the feature is available). Play with getting the ease in and ease out controls (if you have them) to get a more natural start/stop and change of direction, etc.
 
Thanks, Clark! I haven't even thought about importing the files directly into my editing software! :Drogar-Shock(DBG):
 
Just make sure that your editing software does not conform each photo to the dimensions of your project (i.e. 1280x720) upon import. You want the full resolution of your high-res scans to work with when scan/pan/zooming (i.e. 3000x3000). This will allow you to do a huge zoom/crop all the way down to the dimensions of your project without losing quality.
 
One thing is to make sure you add at least one flicker filter max (in FCP, the name may differ for other programs).

What often happens in panning/ scanning hi-res photos is that you will see interlacing issues on a broadcast monitor. The interlacing issues can vary from the picture looking shaky to (say in a plaid shirt) have the image almost look like its an animation. Depending on the resolution of the picture a flicker filter wont effect the quality.
 
Depending on the resolution of the picture a flicker filter wont effect the quality.
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It will affect the quality. It will make it watchable on an interlaced TV and slightly softer vertically on a progressive display. But it's something we are used to.
 
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