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problems with moving picture in final cut pro
I am using moving picture to animate stills in FCP for a doco which is about a photographer so the images we are using are quite large!! The animation of the stills itself is fine but when I go to output I am finding that its crashing at the 70% mark and seems to be a problems with Moving picture. This is a 30 minute piece which has a least 30 stills.
I have tried outputting the moving picture elements as quicktimes but although this doesn’t crash it producing some strange results, ie things moving at a different pace and some jitteriness(is there such a word??)
Any ideas or has anyone else had this problem and some possible solutions???
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It sounds like the image files are too big. What resolution are they? You don’t really need more than 100 dpi. (video is 72) If they are, you could open them with photoshop and resize them to 100 dpi or even 72. You can then re-associate in FCP, but you may have to adjust your keyframes if you have some. This may sound like a huge hassle but it’s probably the reason why it keeps crashing. Hope this helps,
Seth W.
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Hi Seth,
Thanks for that, they are huge files and the editor wants to keep them so as the doco is about a photographer, but I’ll suggest that to him and see what he says.
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Anna B -
Final Cut Pro completely chokes on high resolution still images. If you have access to Motion or After Effects, use one of them instead. Final Cut Pro is a blunt, awkward tool for any type of motion graphics work.
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They are actually being keyframed in Moving Picture which is a plug in by stage tools..I have suggested After Effects, I hate motion so I’m not going anywhere near that program! Now its down to time, ie not a lot of it left, so reanimation is an issue. I think I’ll output each animated still as a quicktime and drop them back into the timeline!
Thanks
Anna B
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