• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Title Scroll: Photoshop settings for FCP

  Posted by Les Kaye on May 17, 2009 at 9:10 pm

  Apologies if this has been covered, but a search didn’t help:

  I’ve received the a psd of the end credits for a 720p film (shot in DVCPRO 720p 23.98).

  File Settings:
  Pixel Dimensions
  2667 Width
  16270 Height

  Document Height
  1280.2 points Width
  7809.6 points Height

  Resolution
  150 pixels

  Canvas Size:
  2667 Width
  16270 Height

  The file is 124 MB. Yes, I know it’s huge. I’ve merged all layers and attempted to scale and animate in Motion, but the image quality was unacceptable after Motion downconverted (dimensions too large). Final Cut seems to scale to the correct resolution, but the colored titles (orange – which I recommended they not use), are starting to break up. I’ve tried flattening the file and the resolution looks terrible in FCP.

  Can someone please recommend the correct settings to be used?

  Many thanks,
  -Les Kaye

  http://www.leskaye.net

  Bob Flood replied 17 years ago 4 Members · 4 Replies
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  Walter Biscardi

  May 17, 2009 at 9:01 pm

  Take it into photoshop,

  Flatten the image

  Change the Image Size to 1280 wide to match your 720p timeline. Be sure to “Maintain Image Proportions or whatever that checkbox says so you don’t change the aspect of the timeline.

  This will create a text file the same width as your timeline.

  Now bring that into FCP and try the crawl.

  If it’s still too wide, make the width small enough in Photoshop to accomodate the correct width. I find scaling down files in Photoshop to work better than scaling them in FCP.

  Walter Biscardi, Jr.
  Biscardi Creative Media
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  Arnie Schlissel

  May 17, 2009 at 9:51 pm

  You’ll need to use AE or Combustion to do this. You won’t be able to do this in FCP or Motion because both of those apps are limited to no more than 4096 pixels in either direction.

  And while you’re at it, make sure you make the orange broadcast safe!

  Arnie
  Post production is not an afterthought!
  https://www.arniepix.com/
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  Les Kaye

  May 18, 2009 at 6:39 am

  Thanks Walter & Arnie. Since this project MIGHT end up with theatrical distribution, would I be better off using AE in terms of ending up with the best results in terms of picture quality?

  -L

  http://www.leskaye.net
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  Bob Flood

  May 18, 2009 at 2:37 pm

  LES

  WOT IS UP!

  Can’t you just copy the titles over to tilemotion and ….whoops! forgot we are past that (ha ha ha)

  AE will always give you the best results, because you have more control over the various aspects you need. I find FCP to be limitied in a lot of the graphic/text manipulation areas, so i am getting better and better at AE (next week i am gonna try Masks! 🙂 )

  and AE really is resolution independent. AND i would follow walters advice about making the crawl as wide as your comp.

  “I like video because its so fast!”

  Bob Flood
  Greer & Associates, Inc.

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