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Correct steps in dealing with jpegs in FCP
Ok, so I’ve dealt with jpegs numerious times but this time, my images are coming from a magazine company and they are very high res (11megs) although when I zoom into the photo to get a look at the text or a close up of a face, the image starts to look blurry or pixelated. The jpeg also has brighter white tones than what FCP likes, so I am seeing a lot of flickering in the image. I need to instruct this highend magazine in how to give me these images so I can eliminate these problems.
What are the proper steps and format?
Is jpeg the ideal? Or is it TIFF or GIF?
What size should the photos be? 11megs should render a great image close up, yet its not.I’m under deadline and anyones help is very appreciated.
JOE
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4 Replies
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Sounds likely they’ve given you CMYK files (used for print). You need RGB. But you can transform the colorspace in Photoshop if you have just about any version. Do that and try a resize in Photoshop.. not fcp if you can (smaller sounds like might be good here… sort of depends on the image itself.
Jerry
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Without a montior at my remote editing location, I’m trying to judge and understand why when I look at jpeg or tiff file that is really large (30megs) that my viewer displays it as crystal clear but my canvas displays it as blurry. Which one am I do believe and why is their even a difference??
Sincerely confused.
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Joe,
You cannot trust the FCP canvas, it is designed to for realtime performance rather than hi res display. You have to monitor with a TV or monitor to really see the true output.
DRW
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Joe,
Resolution for TV screen, or for FCP is only 72 dpi, as for print is at least 300 dpi.
All that extra resolution, extra file size is obsolete in your case.
Resize your images in Photoshop to 720 x 480 (576 for PAL) at resolution of
72 dpi.
In theory we can’t use dpi to measure TV screen resolution, but it’s used here
just to simplify the explanation.
To make sure that this is all correct, you can export any frame from your timeline,
File>Export>Using QuickTime conversion> then choose Stills.
Now open that image in Photoshop and check it’s Image Size,
Image>Resize>Image Size and there you’ll find the size for your FCP frame.
That should be the size of your JPEGs that you need to import.
If you plan to zoom in and pan (Ken Burns effect) then you can make your JPEGs little bit bigger,
i.e. 1000 x 750.Mio
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