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Ok, I'm a major newbie to digital lighting. I have test driven Catalyst 3.3 and 1 DL1 so I have a basic understanding of how it all works. For the show I plan on running Catalyst DV v4.0 and two DL1's.

We plan on creating some of our own stills. We don't plan on making any clips (movies) at this time.

From reading past posts I believe I need to tell my graphic designer to make file types of photojpeg, tif, or png (to work nicely with Catalyst), and in 1024 x 768 to match nicely with the DL1's.

Is it that simple or am I missing something?

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fxdrew - Former HES Forum Member over 17 years ago

png's are good for having an alpha channel, but don't necessarily need to be that format if you aren't using any transparent parts. The 1024x768 image size is good for stills, but you can load a higher resolution image if you want to scale up the picture. I think Richard has it up to 2048x2048 as a maximum image size.
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christall - Former HES Forum Member over 17 years ago

Andrew,

I have some 1024x768 .JPG files I am going to test with. I was a little confussed by the term "photojpeg". I believe I understand that to be what we call .JPG files.
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fxdrew - Former HES Forum Member over 17 years ago

I may be wrong, but the majority of the time I see 'photojpeg' is when I'm encoding video (there is also motion jpeg and jpeg2000). If you are working in a photo/graphics program, then standard jpeg should be fine (you could probably do it at 100% for still images, but if it takes too long to load (a second) then try less.
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