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Canon digital camera to FCE–please help!
Hi–
I’m and amateur, and a friend asked me to do a promotional video for him. He’s got a wealth of pics and video already shot, but I decided to take a few more stills. I shot (surely by accident, since I’m only a middling cameraman) a gorgeous exterior of his business. I got it home and into PS Elements for a couple of touches. The picture was shot at 2048 X 1536 and 180 DPI.
When I import it into FCE, I get lousy resolution, i.e. fuzzy, jagged edges. I’ve tried it at several sizes, and several resolutions, not to mention being hung up in the “rectangular pixel” issue. I haven’t gone there yet, since at this point I’m just viewing it on my computer monitor.
Can anyone point me in the right direction, specially what settings to use for shooting stills, what manipulations to do in PS, and how to import into FCE?
TIA,
–Tim
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Everyone was an amateur at some point, so don’t sweat it. :o)
Digital camera stills will be in square pixels out of the camera. If you don’t convert them (say, in Photoshop), you will get a little bit of stretching when you bring it in to FCP.
As for fuzziness, make sure that your image is at least the same res as video (720×480 for NTSC, 720×576 for PAL), or higher will let you zoom in etc.
I’m not suer if FCE has realtime timelines, but in FCP, you will often get fuzzy stills if you don’t render – it’s a realtime issue. Try ans render first and see if that helps. If the still is a very high resolution, you may also get some flickering on your image on a video monitor. If FCE has a flicker filter included, you will likely want to use that.
The other possibility is that when viewing on a computer monitor, video can look a little fuzzy due to the quicktime settings. This can sometimes be rectified by switching on Hi-Quality mode in QT.
Enzo Tedeschi
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