Converting tiff files for use in FCP 4.5

[scottwitt Scott witt]

Photoshop CS will solve all your problems.

Those pictures are Gi-Mungus, HUGE.

Better to be bigger than smaller

[Todd Beabout]

Very large stills like that always look like total crap until you do a “Render All” (Option-R). Render times are pretty serious too, but it usually looks pretty good. Sometimes I leave them large like that, especially if I am going to “push-in” to a part of the still. I have had to use the “Anti Alias” filter in some cases too.

If you do need to resize, and it looks like you probably do, Photoshop is the go-to app for all tasks like that. But it is not cheap. If you HAVE to get something out without spending money, you can actually do this in QuickTime Pro. Open the image, press Apple-J to get properties, click on “Video Track” and go to the “Visual Settings” tab. From here you can scale it and re-save it.

Hope this helps.

-Todd Beabout
Vazda Studios

[scottwitt Scott witt]

You can DL photoshop and use it for a 30 day demo

[David Roth weiss]

Frank,

See my post to your original message…