advice needed for still image format

CDM wrote on 3/29/2009, 5:54 PM

Hi There -
This isn't the normal kind of gig I get, but the post-house I normally use is too booked up and I have a deadline of tomorrow evening to get a spot on the air. It's just a bumper ad, so it's a still image. I was sent a pdf and I need to create a :15 NTSC 4:3 spot for TV out of it.

My question is, what should I convert the file to from Adobe Acrobat so that I get the highest res image for output from Vegas. I have to render this to some kind of hi bit rate MPEG2 for upload to the DG (like 20MBPS or something).

anyway, do I just want highest res JPEG? PNG? TIFF?

any advice would be appreciated.

thanks!

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rs170a wrote on 3/29/2009, 6:25 PM

I open up PDFs in Photoshop and, when asked, set the resolution (switch to pixels) to whatever I need.
Also, make sure the image is in RGB format as it may come in as CMYK.
Photoshop can do this conversion for you.
PNG is my preferred Vegas image format.

Mike

CDM wrote on 3/29/2009, 7:05 PM

Thanks Mike.

CDM wrote on 3/30/2009, 6:41 AM

any other setting in the PNG window? Png24? or should I use the photoshop Save As... command to save as PNG?

rs170a wrote on 3/30/2009, 6:59 AM

I'm using Photoshop 7.0
After doing a Save As PNG, the only option I get is Interlaced/None.
I use None.

Mike