Importing and rendering 2048x1536 jpgs from iphone XS without degradation - 2020/Windows

Question

I'm a newbie working mostly with stills from an epic trip. I'd sure like to get the workflow right before investing a lot of time in my movie.

If I bring an image into Elements it recognizes it correctly and shows clearly in the (static) preview window, but whether I render it or not it looks substantially degraded when playing, either in a small window or full screen. Exporting even to UHD format still shows substantially degraded images. (The source images themselves show beautifully on my 2560x1440 display.)

Once I'm able to include images with minimum degradation the plan would be to rely on pan-and-zoom a fair bit, so resizing them in advance may not be practical.

What preset should I be using? (Final output could be directly to an HD display or to Vimeo.)

What am I missing?

Thanks!

I'm attaching a sample image. Even if I deliberately downsample the image to 1080 rows in height the left side of the brim of hat worn by the guy in the middle isn't obviously pixelated in the original and the large text on the bulletin board is clear. All of the videos I've been able to make so far have visible stair-stepping on the brim of his visor and crummy text. Even when viewed full-screen using VLC. Please tell me I'm missing something!

Bill Sprague · Accepted Answer

"Any pitfalls to be wary of?"I would probably pick 1080p30 instead of 29.97 but it probably won't matter.  Be sure and check the box to "Force the project settings."  Then before you do any work, check the project settins in the Edit menu to be sure you have 1080p.   Put a single image on the timeline and output a sample.  It should look very good!

Steve Grisetti · Answer

It doesn't matter how high the resolution of your original photo is. It's going to be reduced to video resolution once you add it to a video editor.

If you look under the program's Edit menu, what is listed on the General page of Project Settings? That's the resolution of your video.

You can improve the look of your photo somewhat by going to the program's Edit menu and selecting Preferences and, on the General page, unchecking Scale Still to Frame Size -- but you must do this BEFORE you import the photo into your project. Note that when you do this though the photo will come in at full resolution -- which may be larger than the video frame.

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