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  • Still images movie

    Posted by Alina Antemir on January 26, 2014 at 11:38 pm

    Hello,

    I’m new to movie editing and I would like to ask your advice.

    I want to create a movie made of 600 still images, jpegs. I want to add a soundtrack to it as well. My questions are:

    1.what software would be the best for this job: AE or FCP?

    2.what would be the ideal resolution of the images?

    3.what extension should I chose in order to post the movie on youtube or other online video platforms?

    Thank you and I am waiting for your recommendations.I really want to get this going with the right tools.

    Thank you very much,
    Alina

    Mark Suszko replied 12 years, 8 months ago 2 Members · 5 Replies
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  • Mark Suszko

    January 27, 2014 at 3:00 pm

    Alina, are the 600 images part of a short animation, or are you wanting to dissolve between them, like a slide show?. Do you plan to make the still shots appear to move, with pans and zooms?

    I ask because, depending on how sophisticated you want to get, you can do this with some low-price and even free tools.

  • Alina Antemir

    January 27, 2014 at 4:02 pm

    Hi Mark,

    Thank you for your response.

    The images will be like frames that go one after another so more like creating a moving effect…a bit of slow motion effect. Also I want to add a soundtrack to it..it won’t be too sophisticated.. I started doing it in Premiere but soon I realized that it just doesn’t work since the preview wouldn’t show me all frames and it was blocked.
    So I was wondering which software to use between FCP or AE…

  • Mark Suszko

    January 27, 2014 at 4:32 pm

    You can do this kind of thing in ANY video software these days…

    Are you looking for an effect like this one” It’s called Coverflux or cover flow…

    https://www.idustrialrevolution.com/coverflux

    or something where each frame takes up the whole screen, and they change by dissolving or pushing off the screen to reveal the next image?

  • Alina Antemir

    January 27, 2014 at 4:42 pm

    I see, no it’s more like time-lapse movie. But thank you for the link, it’s always good to know new things.

  • Mark Suszko

    January 27, 2014 at 6:55 pm

    Go check out the demo of Fotomagico: is something like THAT what you want to do?

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