green jpegs

[Ed Dooley]

As an Irish citizen, I run into that “everything turns green” problem all the time. 🙂
Have you opened them in another program, like Photoshop, to see if they do it, or have you
only opened them in FCP? If they open OK in other programs, save them as some other format from there.
Ed

[filmeditorjoe] “Hi. I’m working w/ a magazine on a promo video and they sent me a cd of jpegs, some of which turned out to be all greeen when I actually plug them into the timeline. I have a hunch this has something to do with way they saved the files on their end. What should I tell them, so I can get the problem corrected? Thanks so much. JOE”

[Filmeditorjoe]

Yes Ed, I did open them from the cd itself and they view fine in the preview mode. I don’t have photoshop on this computer, so what do you suggest I use to save them in a different format and what would the format be…o’wise Irish one.??

[Steve Weslak]

I had a similar problem a few jobs ago. It might be because the files were saved as CMYK in Photoshop. You can open the photos in Preview and File-Save As will allow you to change the format of the stills. I changed them to TIFF files, and re-imported them into FCP. This method worked for me..

[Andkin]

Graphic Converter used to be a free demo on Macs. It should still be out there somewhere. You can batch convert all sorts of files to anything else.
Of course with Tiger’s Automator and Preview you could probably figure out a way to do that with what you have.
ak

[Ed Dooley]

Preview doesn’t allow you to change format in SaveAs. Use Export and you’ll have tons of format options (well, 12 anyway).
Ed

[Steve Weslak] “I had a similar problem a few jobs ago. It might be because the files were saved as CMYK in Photoshop. You can open the photos in Preview and File-Save As will allow you to change the format of the stills. I changed them to TIFF files, and re-imported them into FCP. This method worked for me..”