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Photo Mosaic in Final cut express
Hi everyone, hope someone can help.
Excuse me if I do not know the appropriate jargon;
I am just finishing editing a wedding video for my cousin and to end it I wanted to put in a photo mosaic. I’ve used MacOSaix to design my photo exported, using different sizes and formats, I tried jpeg, png, and tiff and all different sizes as big as 20,000 x 13,333 pixels.
When I put on to my timeline in FCE the image is fine but when I zoom in (increase scale in motion tab) the pictures are all fuzzy and poor quality. I wanted to zoom in and slowly zoom out showing all pictures taken during the day and when zoomed out fully the picture of the couple is revealed.
I know this can be done as I saw a video on youtube where the guy said he just used MacOSaix and FCE. I mailed the video creator but he has not replied.
Any help would be greatly appreciated, thank you.
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[Karl Hans e Greuy] ” using different sizes and formats, I tried jpeg, png, and tiff and all different sizes as big as 20,000 x 13,333 pixels.”
The bigger the picture, the harder the task for FC.[Karl Hans e Greuy] “When I put on to my timeline in FCE the image is fine but when I zoom in (increase scale in motion tab) the pictures are all fuzzy and poor quality. I wanted to zoom in and slowly zoom out showing all pictures taken during the day and when zoomed out fully the picture of the couple is revealed.
I know this can be done as I saw a video on youtube where the guy said he just used MacOSaix and FCE. I mailed the video creator but he has not replied.”
Try, try, try.
FCP is not very good for those tasks; FCE is even more limited: lower quality codecs and render options.
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You might want to hand off this job to a third party app like Boinx Photomagico.
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Thanks for the info guys, I was able to get in touch with the guy who had the video up on youtube so hopefully he can help me through it.
It’s just so frustrating I mean I can look at the photo in Preview and zoom right into an individual image losing only minimal quality yet when I put the same image into FCE it just looks awful with only a slight zoom. Adding to the frustration is the fact that when I import other images into my timeline I can zoom in nearly 10 times the original image size and it is still watchable quality. I would have thought the opposite would be true seeing as the mosaic is made up of 1000+ smaller images but alas its doesn’t seem to be. Anyone know why or am I doing something wrong?
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It has to be the codec and resolution settings you’re making. In othermwords, “pilot error”. The larger and higher-rez your imaeg files are to start with, the smoother and better you can do zooms. Of course, make the files ridiculously large and you’re just wasting drive space, past a certain image size. Thhe codec you edit in needs to be one that’s more friendly to the higher rez as well. The DV codec is I think what Express defaults to, and this is not a graphics-friendly codec, with 4:1:1 compression.
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Yes; if you’re editing in DV, try a test sequence with AIC and compare at 100%.
Russ
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May have got it sorted just waiting on export to see how it looks. I’ll write down the steps I took if it does indeed work, incase anyone else has this problem.
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