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Animation from photoshop to fcp
Hi,
I am working on a live action stop motion film which I am planning to rotoscope frame by frame in photoshop. I just need to clarify some workflow questions. The edit is in fcp, basically its all still frames lined up on a DV-PAL timeline at full resolution (5184 x 3156). My plan is to re-size the images to the DV-Pal frame size (720 or 768 ? x576), and do all the rotoscopy work in photoshop and then bring the images back into fcp. I will save the photoshoped images in a new folder with the same name and then save the same timleine into a new project and then reconnect the images..to the new photoshop images (that have the same name). I have been working with JPEG’s..should I be using TIFF’s ?
its a bit convoluted ..suggestions for alternate workflow are welcome. 🙂
What should the sequence settings in fcp be? On Pro Res HQ the animation does not look right..it looks good in the animation codec. Is that the right one? Do I use square in the pixel aspect ratio & field dominance to none? It will be output to video..ie. to digibeta tape to be broadcast on TV…It has been framed and shot for 4:3.
Do the images need to be re-sized to non-square pixels in photoshop before I bring them into fcp?
I am not really familiar with after effects so not sure if that would have made my workflow any easier.
Thanks
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ok…
my first question is why Photoshop????? when Aftereffects at that resolution gives you the same if not better rotoscoping capabilities than Photoshop and if you import it @ (5184 x 3156) you can just change the composition settings to (720 or 768 ? x576) and still keep the hi ress….. you might want do the settings change before you start to rotoscope because of frame loss and audio framework displacements you can avoid that buy doing the frame rate change and composition settings first
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