I've been searching a lot of forums and hope I'm finally at the right place. I'm not the sharptest tack in the drawer. I have been given a job to scan all my high school year books onto a CD (one CD per year) and to place a small quicktime movie (using Motion and Final Cut) into the same CD.
It seems that almost everything I read in the forums is regarding web or print work.
I'm nervous here in that I don't want to do a poor job and give a poor representation.
As of now I think I should scan each page at a minimum of 300 dpi, do whatever cleaning up I need to do in Photoshop and then put it into a PDF. The reason for going to PDF format is because on my practice run with this project one of the board members wanted to be able to zoom in on a page and read the names under the pictures.
I am being paid to do these and would sure like to do as well on the first one as on the last and so I'm holding off for further advice from you guys.
One article I read spoke of the value of making a "Cohesive PDF document" which I like but I'm not sure about how the Quicktime move will go over if someone puts this cd/dvd in their computer and it won't read. They are paying for the item so it has to work. I do have a few more questions here but don't want to ruin my welcome on this my first posting.
Thank you very very much for any assistance.
You shouldn't have any problems at all using the QT movie. Personally, I agree with your idea to use PDF as it is very convenient, and allows for the zoom you want.
Something you might want to do is provide a few renditions for the movie, in case a viewer doesn't have QuickTime on their computer. Final Cut lets you export in different formats, so why not make a few? QT, AVI, WMV, MP3. That way, they are likely to see something. Also, if you are putting one year on a CD, there's likely room to host a few copies.
As the author of that article you mentioned, I say go ahead and try. :)
donna.
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