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“easy setup” and export options in FCE for making stop motion
I hate unclear posts, so i’ll try not to write one…
-I am using Final Cut EXPRESS (not pro, but there doesn’t seem to be a separate forum for express)
-I’m making short stop motion films by importing series of photographs from a digital still camera into FCE, then exporting them back out as clips. once i have all my clips as separate files, i import them back into a new project file in FCE, add music and titles and then export out my final product.
-The movie files I’m ending up with are all stupidly small compared to the huge size of the photos i’m using, but i can’t figure out how to get FCE to make bigger files for me.
-I’ve tried a bunch of different “easy setup” settings and exported in just about every imaginable configuration, but am still not getting nice big movies.
Can anyone PLEASE tell me which Easy Setup configuration I should use for this and what kind of export option will get me the best quality movie files?
Thanks,
Davidps. if you’re interested, an example of a little project I did last week can be seen here:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zU6VV_hPzC4
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Use an HD timeline 1920×1080 is the largest size you can do in FCE or FCP. I think all the HD timelines are HDV – AIC.
If you want bigger movie resolution you will need to do to an FXs software like, Motion, AE, Combustion or Shake.
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[David Poznanter] “The movie files I’m ending up with are all stupidly small compared to the huge size of the photos i’m using, but i can’t figure out how to get FCE to make bigger files for me. “
First what type of camera images are you using? jpg, tiff, raw etc, and what resolution are they?
And what sequence settings are you using in FCP?
If you are doing stop motion check out iStopMotion I have heard good things about it.
https://www.boinx.com/istopmotion/overview/There are no “technical solutions” to your “artistic problems”.
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Hi David,
You should have the “Apple Proress 1920×1080 p30”. Or “Apple ProRess 1920×1080 p25” if you are in Pal land.
That’s the size and the quality you need for your stills on video.
rafael(and here some clips for the friends: https://www.vimeo.com/2694745 )
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If you have Quicktime Pro, you can import a sequence of stills and export a Quicktime clip that you can then import into FCE, thus eliminating the scaling problems. Should work…
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ProRes is not available in FCE.
All the best,
Tom
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[Tom Wolsky] “ProRes is not available in FCE.
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Poor guys.
rafael(and here some clips for the friends: https://www.vimeo.com/2694745 )
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wow, thanks for the advice guys, I really appreciate it!
i’ll definitely try the final cut pro idea and see if it works better to eliminate the formatting problem. i also would LOVE to use istopmotion but only the pro version supports bigger formats than i’m already getting and unfortunately i don’t have 500 bucks to shell out…
i’ve been reading through posts like crazy on here and noticed that maybe i left out a few bits of info that might help (i’m new to this, so thanks for nobody tearing my post to shreads!):
-I am using jpegs, my current project they’re 3648 x 2736. I don’t need the final product to be that big, but right now i’ve literally only managed to get the final product to be a maximum size of 720 x five-hundred-something. i don’t need to play it on a movie theatre size screen, but i’d like to be able to run them on for example a large home television and have them look nice.
– i’m using a new macbook pro 2.4 Ghz.
-i’ll be outputting onto a DVD format as part of my promo material (i’m a circus artist not a video guy, so the goal is not to showhow talented i am at editing, but i also don’t want the style of my physical work to suffer due to me sucking at editing!)
-Thanks for the warm welcome onto this site, for the advice so far and any more thoughts are always of course welcome!
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Your camera is shooting in a 4:3 format. HD is 16:9 so you’ll have to zoom into your image to achieve 16:9. You could leave it 4:3 in the middle of the HD image with black on the right and left or make a montage of images to fill the HD frame.
John
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