Yes.
It works well, with clean, sharp, non-jittery, non-"glittery" results (assuming good basic
copy-work technique...;-) Since the original
is already in video format, most of the ills
seen when trying to manipulate scans brought
into the video editor do not appear. The "clip"
filter is a cropping (with resulting border)
tool in Premiere, useful for cleaning up edges
or producing borders - and it can be any color.
BTW, with various attempts at importing slide
scans into Premiere producing so-so (or worse)
results, I now use a slide duplicator attachment
on the video camera - with excellent results.


On Sun, 06 May 2001 11:08:23 -0400, Warren wrote:

>Are you suggesting setting my DV camcorder on a tripod and record the
>still on a table that has good lighting instead of scanning on a
>computer? Is the clip filter part of a software package?

>On Sat, 05 May 2001 16:04:01 GMT, d_ruether@hotmail.com (Neuman - Ruether)
>wrote:

>>If you are not "moving around in the photo" much,
>>but just doing a straight slide-show with transitions,
>>it is much easier to shoot the photos with the video
>>camera (use the "clip" filter to cover irregular
>>edges, if you want, if you did not shoot close enough
>>to miss the edges), and any (or all) photos that need
>>color/contrast/brightness adjustment can be cut and
>>filtered easily in the editor. If you scan first,
>>BMP files work well in the video editor, and these
>>can be prepared in a good, cheap photo editor like
>>Micrografx Picture Publisher. When importing the results,
>>select "maintain aspect ratio" if the files are not 4:3
>>proportion.