Optimum settings for slide export?

Dorico
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If you export graphics for projection in a worship service, what is your optimum settings:

  • Page size
  • Staff size
  • Margins
  • export file type

Thanks!

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I think the average beamer has a 4:3 aspect ratio, so I think a page layout size like 900x1200 or 1200x1600 pixels (landscape) will work fine in most cases. Set the display to full screen mode and everything will scale automatically.

Staff size: hard to tell. I’d say, experiment a bit, and try to imagine how it looks from a distance. I guess margins can be rather modest. File format PDF?

Disclaimer: I’ve never needed to project any of my music on a screen, so my answers may be utterly naive, but I thought you deserved some answer at least. There must be other forum-dwellers with more experience in this field.

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I would do 16:9. Here are the settings I used for Crossway:

image
image960×970 47.5 KB

image
image796×582 23.5 KB

image
image842×264 17.9 KB

image
image1566×914 96.8 KB

Export as PDF, then convert PDF to PNG at a resolution of 600 (Acrobat does this automatically).

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Why not just export as PNG from Dorico directly?

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I guess that’s true. I hadn’t even thought about that.