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Stills and Final Cut Pro
Hello, I am new to this forum and hope to find some answers. We are putting a project together which will contain about 600 photos played for an average of about 5 sec each. Each photo is in JPEG format, 300 dpi, with different sizes the biggest being (w 3300, h 2356 pixels). Each one of these pictures has been imported into a FCP project and now comes the editing process and putting them all on a timeline. My problem resides in which format I should use for the timeline. The end result will be projected on a screen (approx 10 x 7 meters) from a medium either on tape or DVD. Of course we would like to keep the photos to their highest quality. Should I use simple DV, DVCPRO, HDV ???? My equipment includes the following: G5 Dual 2Ghz, 8GB Ram, 500Gb Serial ATA Raid, Apple 23 and 17 display. I thank you all in advance for your help.
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DV50 or 8bit uncompressed or 10 bit uncompressed – all will look great w/ your hirez photos.
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Thank you very much for your input. So I am going to choose 10bit uncompressed, should I get a video card to help a bit on the rendering?
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You need a card if u want to capture footage from a tape source.
You can edit 10bit uncompressed w/o a card b/c u r using only stills and text.
You can then compress the finished piece to DVD. If you want to output to tape – then u’ll need a card. -
All right thanks a lot for the info. Now coming back to the format issue, if I use a 10bit uncompressed setting, then my image size goes to 720×576 (I am in Switzerland and the format is PAL). My actual Hi Rez picture is at only approx 30 percent of its original size in order to fill the screen, that I understand. However if I choose a HD setting the image is at a higher percentage as far as size and also a much better quality, it is quite a lot crispier. What is this due to? My main concern is to make sure that when this will be projected onto a large screen approx 30 x 20 feet I will not have jagged edges everywhere, specially knowing that I started from hi rez images. Thank you.
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