• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Photoshop picture file import

  Posted by Lawrence Mcdonough on December 13, 2005 at 12:36 am

  I am a new Photoshop user. Elements 2.0 How do I resize a photo that is oriented as a potrait view to wide like a landscape view? When I place these in the canvas I end up with a vertical black band on either side of the clip. How do I fill that 720 x 480 frame?

  Larry

  Enzo Tedeschi replied 20 years, 4 months ago 2 Members · 3 Replies
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  Enzo Tedeschi

  December 13, 2005 at 2:35 am

  If your still is a hi-enough resolution, it’s a matter or cropping it to fill the frame. You could do this in Elements, or better yet, from within FCP without actually discarding any image info.

  Cut the pic into your timeline. Select it in the timeline and hit Enter. This will load it into the viewer. Then select the motion tab, and scale the picture up, adjusting the center until you have the framing you like. Advantages of doing it this way – you still have the image off screen to bring back if you deceide to change your framing,or keyframe a move into if you need to. Another way is to select “Image and Wireframe” display in your canvas window. This will give you handles on your canvas view to drag for repositioning and scaling.

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  Enzo Tedeschi
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  Lawrence Mcdonough

  December 13, 2005 at 6:38 am

  Thanks Enzo! That worked great. You are right about the lower resolution photo’s, they got somewhat grainy when I resized them, but all worked well.

  Larry
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  Enzo Tedeschi

  December 13, 2005 at 9:20 am

  No probs, Larry. Pleasure.

  Play with the Motion blur check box if you are doing moves, and use the FCP Flicker Filter to get rid of that horrible shimmering you get from the stills.

  Have fun!

  Enzo Tedeschi
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  Sydney, Australia

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