Pictures

[NGLighthouse]

Hi,

I have just created a matrix model of 16 x 32, soon to be increased to 64 x 128.

I would like to display images on the matrix but not to sure how to.  When I upload an image into the picture model I only see a very small section of the image.  I am assuming that the picture model looks at an image at pixel level.

Any suggestions on what I need to do to get an image successfully displaying on my matrix.

Cheers

[Gilrock]

If you change the "Movement" box to "Scaled" it should try to fit the picture to your matrix.  The only downside is then you can't actually use any of the other movement options.  I would personally have separated the scaling as a different option from the motion but someone probably just tossed it in there the easy way.  Of course now it becomes a pain for us to fix it because we have to deal with fixing how it was used in everyone's existing sequences.

[Gilrock]

But the best way is to scale the picture yourself in an external program like Paint, Photoshop, etc.

[MrChristmas2000]

Although this is a video tutorial made for ver 3.x the basics are still applicable in 4.x

https://vimeo.com/63256211

and for resizing images
http://www.obviousidea.com/windows-software/light-image-resizer/
of
http://imageresizer.codeplex.com/releases/view/30247

There is also an online one as well but I don't have the link handy.

[NGLighthouse]

Hi

Thanks for the help seems to work well.

Cheers.

[JonB256]

I'll have to toss "IrfanView" in as a JPEG/PNG resizer. Pretty easy.

Also, it has a Batch Resize mode that I used a few weeks back to resize several thousand JPEGs used by Tom Willows. He had used ffmpeg to convert a video file to JPEG (20 jpegs per second of video). But, his P10 matrix is larger than mine, so it did not fit.

I used the Batch resize and it converted the thousands (9,019) in about 20 seconds from his resolution to mine.
The quality might have been better if I'd just used ffmpeg on the original, but it looks pretty good.