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Editing Stills in FCP
novice to FCP.
I am working on a art project whereby I am shooting digital stills and creating a video for presentation. My Q is what is the best way to go about inputing & outputing my images through FCp for the best visual result. The final film will be presented in 16:9 format via a digital projector.I am unclear on one setting I should set for output and also what image size I should start with through photoshop.
thxs
Tom -
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Tom,
In order to answer effectively, you will have to obtain and provide as much information as possible about the hardware available for your video presentation.
Is the projector capable of displaying HD?
How will you feed video to the projector? DVD? Computer? Tape?
David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los AngelesPOST-PRODUCTION WITHOUT THE USUAL INSANITY ™
A forum host of Creative COW’s Apple Final Cut Pro, Business & Marketing, and Indie Film & Documentary forums.
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First you need to look at how you are projecting the video. Will it be HD or SD? You should edit your sequence in the perspective format. If SD, do not use DV! You will get jitter and resolution loss. For SD projection I use DVCPro 50 Anamorphic preset for the timeline. Rendering will take longer than DV but the video will look much better.
Your photos do not need to be huge! Standard def is something like 72 dpi, so save yourself the heart ache and rendering woes by importing something usable. If you are doing moves or fitting the picture, bump up the res. (maybe 150 dpi?)
For importing, create a folder on a hard drive with nothing in it. Most likely the picts will be .jpg. Place all photos into the folder. Rotate if needed using a pic. program. If you have an order for the pics, re-name them using a “0” first and then numerically in the order you want them. In fcp, set your import / still settings to a time you can work with, ie, 3 seconds. You can then import the entire folder, grab all the photos and insert into your DVCPro 50 anamorphic timeline. All photos will be placed sequentially to how you numbered them and at the desired length (ie. 3 sec.).
Sometimes fcp can’t handle the whites and mids like photoshop etc. You may want to color correct by pulling the mids or whites down occationally to what looks best. I usually get more detail out of old photos this way.
Good luck!
Cordell Wolking
Ogden Studios – Audio / Video Production -
I am using a HD projector for screening and would also like to edit for widescreen HD TV. I am working on a Mac with FCP 5 I will be outputing the images via PShop as jpegs or png.
Q. what setup would you suggest taking into consideration that I want the final presentation to be in the 16:9 format.
Q. Since I am cropping the images to fit this format in respect to prop should I also apply the aspect ratio in Photoshop prior to uploading images to FCP to avoid distortion on playback.
pls let me know if you need any further info this end to answer my requests.
thxs
Tom -
Hi David
My set-up is a G5 Mac loaded with FCP5 and using CS3 PShop for editing 35mm format digital images.
I shall be using a HD Digital Projector linked to a dvd player so Yes the footage will be coming from a DVD as it is for a art gallery show.I would also like to edit a version suitable for screening on HD Widescreen TV.What I would like to know is the following.
1. Ideal size of images to load.
2. Format of images jpeg or png.
3. I am cropping the 35 mm format to a 16:9 ratio prior to loading should I apply the Pixal Aspect Ratio 16:9 to images prior to loading to FCP.
4. What Set -up setting should I apply in FCP prior to loading images and what setting should I output through to get the best non distorted image at the end.thxs in advance for your advise.
Tom
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I recently had a presentation I was very proud of. It looked better than I had thought it would.
instead of a DVD player, I was able to create my presentation in a 720×1280 HD sequence then output it to an Apple-TV player which I took to the event and plugged into the HD projector.
I don’t think I’ll do an SD-DVD again if I can help it.Since you asked, I try to avoid using images larger than 2500 pixels x 2500 pixels.
It really slows things down. I tend to convert images to the best resolution JPEG if they need to be
large images as opposed to using a TIF or PSD file. Personal preference.
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