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Adding movement to static images

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Adding movement to static images

Adding still images to your documentary is a really nice way to advance the story, even when it's among lots of footage. Here I have my conclusion, and I have lots of nice footage to help sell my story, and I have this shot of BD at the market, and it's surrounded by a lot of movement, but it is so still itself. Now, if I applied a resize to this, it really wouldn't be the best solution because what I have done is I have imported this image into my project and therefore I've converted it to the video resolution that I'm working with. So here is the image that I've imported, and we know that we are working in a standard definition project for the purposes of this course, and so we are at 720x486 pixels. Well, I'll tell you that this image was shot on a Canon 5D Camera at more than 5000x3000 pixels. If we look at it exactly, we can see that we have it at 5616 pixels by 3600 pixels, so a very, very large image, and we want to take advantage of every single one of those pixels. So, if we…

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