carving photoshop images for fcp7

[Dennis Leppell]

Yes. Make your image in PS, with a trasparent background. Export said image as a PSD, TIF, or PNG, being sure you save the transparency. Also, be sure to save as an RGB file.

[Richard Harrington]

Your question is pretty vague

Might i suggest you take a look at the Cow’s Photoshop for Video podcasts and perhaps the book by the same name (in the dairy store)

Richard M. Harrington, PMP

Author: Video Made on a Mac, Photoshop for Video, Understanding Adobe Photoshop, Final Cut Studio On the Spot and ATS:iWork

[Milton Ginsberg]

Sorry, Mr. Harrington, I’ll try to be less vague.
Let’s say I have a photo of a man. The photo is square. I want to isolate the form –the shape — of the man and bring it into FCP (so that I can ultimately move it around over an ongoing video image.)
What steps do I have to take in Photoshop to just bring over the form of the man? Please help me further clarify if this is still vague.

[Stuart Christensen]

Hello Milton, it’s pretty simple, first in photoshop create a new document (I’m assuming DV-NTSC) which has a preset in the menu. Make sure it has a transparent background (option is found in the dialogue box when you create the new doc.)

Then, open the picture you want to remove the figure from and clip the person out and drag and drop it into the new document you just created. Then, save the new document in the PNG format.

In Final Cut, import the PNG image and place it in the viewer, set the in and out points, and then overlay it on top of the footage.

The key here is to save the image as a PNG so that it preserves the transparency as a background.

At least that’s one way to do it! Hope that helps! STU

I know alot….but not as much as the other guy.

[Milton Ginsberg]

Thanks, Stuart, does the trick!