Adding Motion to Photos or still pictures

[Shane Ross]

The size of the photos should be at least DOUBLE the pixel dimensions of the project if you intend to do any sort of moves. 720×480 means that your pictures should be about 1440×960. DPI can be anything, as it is meaningless in the video world (300 or 15, it looks the same).

Are you judging this quality on an external monitor or TV? That is the only way, as the computer monitors won’t give you a true representation of the footage.

.pngs or large .gifs or .tifs are best. Avoid .jpg.

Shane Ross
Alokut Productions
http://www.lfhd.net

[Manuel F. rugeles]

All right, thanks. But the strange thing is that the pictures I

[Manuel F. rugeles]

All right, thanks. But the strange thing is that the pictures I

[Tim Vaughan]

I have found much success in working in After Effects to combat this problem. If you do not have AE (or if you do), here is my solution: (This works about 85% of the time, but not all the time)
In AE, apply a mask about 2-5 pixels in from the edge on the picture. From there, I will feather the edges, approx 3-10 pixels based on personal prefs. In FCP, under crop in the viewer, just apply feather edges and set that to about 15-25–again, adjust to your prefs)
Keep an eye out for pics that have hard lines/stripes in them as well. They will usually produce a flicker in them when moving across the screen. In AE, you can add a camera and move the camera in on them, and this will reduce that flicker to a minimum. In FCP, you may be able to apply the flicker filter, but you will have to set that (low, medium, high) to your discretion, and it does not always work. Sometimes it just blurs the image too much and does not correct the initial problem.
Hope this helps.

Tim

Tim

[Tim Vaughan]

I posted a quicktime file with a picture that was feathered at 25, and the same picture not feathered. Both have the same exact motion applied. Notice feathering also reduced the flicker around the top of the girls head when moving.
https://www.trizonfilms.com/feathered.mov

Hope this helps.

Tim

Tim

[Chris Poisson]

Felgue,

In my experience, hirez images can contribute to a flickering problem in FCP. I am a firm believer in optimizing images in Photoshop, and this is the recipe:

Double-sized (as stated above) tiff files at 72 dpi. I have done several tests using this sized image at 72 dpi and 300 dpi, and flickering is much less of a problem in the former image.

Also, the flicker filter or a small amount of gaussian blur is usually all you need to get rid of the flicker entirely.

Have a wonderful day.

[Francois Xavier]

add 1 pt of VERTICAL motion blur in Photoshop

if not enought a 10th of gaussian blur

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