• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Jpg sizes on timeline

  Posted by Solid Porcupine on August 3, 2006 at 7:28 pm

  I’m laying out a bunch of jpg’s on the timeline, doing some timelapse.

  I was just wondering at what point does the resolution and file size of the jpg become irrelevant?
  I’m using files that are 3-8 MB. Would a 500k jpg give me the same quality?

  SP

  Johnw3d replied 19 years, 9 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Johnw3d

  August 4, 2006 at 2:04 am

  It depends on whether you are zooming in on the images or not. If they are static, then you don’t need any more resolution than that of the sequence it’s sitting in and in fact you’ll get a better downsample in Photoshop, not to mention saving system resources in FCP. If you are zooming around, figure the smallest frame you want to see and adjust the image size in Photoshop to make that area have the same resolution as your final FCP sequence. If you do this, you won’t zoom past a 100% crop and cause uprezing pixelation.

  John.
  https://www.lyric.com/fcp-plugins/

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