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Creating footage with a Photoshop image to import into a Final Cut project
Hello,
We need to zoom and pan a still image so that we can use it as footage in a Final Cut Pro HD project.
It is a 2253 x 3000 pixel image (72 dpi) set as square pixels. The image, a complex, detailed family tree, needs to be large enough at the start to read, but then small enough to see the entire image at the end.
We have shot the image with a video camera but it didn’t yield the results we would like, so we want to try making the footage in AE 7; the time we need is about 48 sec.
The Final Cut project settings are: 720 x 480 (1.20), Separating (Lower);29.97 fps; millions of colors; DV/DVCPRO – NTSC; 48.000 kHz/16 bit/ Stereo
Another issue that we may have trouble with is interlacing (?) since the image is hand drawn and very detailed.
Should I set the pixel aspect ratio in Photoshop as DV/DVCPRO before importing it into AE? And, what steps to I need to take in order to render it to work well in the Final Cut project?
I work on a MAC G5.
Thank you very much.
Maria -
2 Replies
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You don’t have to mess with the pixel aspect ratio in photoshop; AE does a good job of handling your pixel aspect ratio requirements for this job. Just drop it into your DV-resolution comp and have at it.
More good news: you don’t have to render using fields, either. In fact, rendering without fields will probably help out the details in your image. Know that because it’s a detailed image, you MIGHT have some problems, but you won’t know for sure until you bring it into FCP.
This next item might seem a bit counter-intuitive, but turning on AE’s motion blur will make things look nicer: you’ll have a little blur when the image moves, less as it slows down, and none when it stops and you want to read things.
As for codecs, I’d be tempted to render out in animation codec, best quality, import it into FCP, and let FCP worry about making it DV.
Dave LaRonde
Sr. Promotion Producer
KCRG-TV -
Dear Dave LaRonde: Thank you very much for your very helpful response to my question.
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