• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Using Web Pages in a FCP DV Timeline?

  Posted by Richard Pengelly on February 14, 2008 at 7:07 pm

  HI,

  I am working on a project where I have to show some web pages and then zoom in on them and still be able to read the text.
  I am currently using screen captures and when you zoom in on them you can’t read the text.
  The screen captures are 922 x 933 and Jpegs.

  Any Ideas would be greatly appreciated.

  Thanks

  Tom Brooks replied 18 years, 2 months ago 4 Members · 3 Replies
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  John Pale

  February 14, 2008 at 7:26 pm

  Try saving the webpages as PDF files (File/Print/Save as PDF). The quality may be better. Open in Photoshop and enter a large dpi (300) in the import dialog. This should result in a document over 2000 pixels wide.
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  Colin Mcquillan

  February 15, 2008 at 5:04 am

  Try using the “Grab” utility. It’s a great little program that ships with OSX, so you should have it in your utilities folder in your application list.

  It captures screens, windows, and user designated selections in the .tiff format.
  There are many other free-ware, shareware, and pay programs that do this aswell, and will allow capture to other formats,, but I use Grab all the time and i’ve had great results with it.

  Then, assuming you have either FCS or FCS2, animate the web page ‘grab’ in motion. It does a far better job of zooming in and out of images than Final Cut.

  Colin McQuillan
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  Tom Brooks

  February 15, 2008 at 4:12 pm

  Those are some great tips. Going to “Print” directly from the web page doesn’t get you the operating system and browser-supplied parts of the screen, so that is something to consider, but printing to PDF is a brilliant idea.

  If you’re using “Grab”, your screen resolution settings might affect how large your page is. On my Dell 24″, the page sizes were bigger than the original post reported, but still not big enough for a really extreme zoom in. For that, I got the best results by printing to PDF and then “placing” that PDF into a large (2000 pixels plus) Photoshop document. The fonts came in as vectors, so they stayed nice and clean. No JPEG mosquito noise!

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