Creating movies out of photos

[Jon Barrie]

[Tony Connoly] “(1) First, when I add jpgs to the sequence, they get severly cropped (way beyond what may be required for 1080p).

(2) Second, I was wondering how many fps and what transitions, if any, to experiment with.

(3) How do I quickly change the duration of the movie? If I have them spaced out at 1 second intervals, and I want to change to .5 second intervals, how do you that quickly. I am getting tired from clicking and dragging!

(4) What kind of a sequence preset should I start out with?”

1. You can select all the clips, right click and select the option to “Scale to Frame Size” that will snap them to fit to the height dimension, then you can alter them from there or you can alter them via the Effect Controls with Motion> Scale and find the value that allows them to fit. You can select the clip that is now corrected for and “copy” (Edit>Copy) then select the rest of the clips and right click to apply “Paste Attributes”. They will all accept the scale changes you made and copied from the 1st clip.

2. Depends on what you want to do there. Straight cuts usually work fine if the sequence of shots connects well enough to simulate motion. (More detail on that would help).

3. If you have the clips in the sequence already you can select them all and right click the group and select “Speed/Duration…” then set the length of each frame and check the box to “Ripple Edit”

4. Generally working with the dimensions you want to output to is the way to go. FullHD 1080, 720HD, SD/DV for DVD output… (Let us know more here)

– JB

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