HD Project based on Still Pictures

[Gary Adcock]

Charles,

All of those settings sound fine to start, remember that video is always 72dpi so ultra highrez files are not needed unless you are zooming way in.

Not to throw a wrench in your gears- but if you are shooing stills – why not use Adobe Acrobat? It would allow you to handle stills as stills and not limit playback to just those with Bluray players.

You can have slide shows, moving video and Security to protect your content all within acrobat. – and it does not cost $25 a disc to deliver to your clients?

gary adcock
Studio37

Post and Production Workflow Consultant
Production and Post Stereographer
Chicago, IL

https://blogs.creativecow.net/24640

[Charles Chandler]

Gary,

Thanks for your comment.

My knowledge of what I can do with video in Adobe Acrobat is very limited.

In the big picture I want to produce a beautiful video, market it it to obtain income and then make the next one.

I haven’t thought much about file based videos formats like Acrobat. I do have some interest in marketing as “Video on Demand (VOD)” I believe that making the VOD file is relatively easy once you have made a DVD, I understand that Amazon will make it for free. I first thought about a DVD. Then I found that HD is not possible on a DVD. I think that anamorphic SD on DVD makes for a poor quality presentation. I thought about editing in HD and downconverting to make a DVD, partly because I don’t have Blu-Ray authoring software. That idea didn’t sit well for long as I really want to make something that will play well on a large HD television or home projector. Anamorphic SD just doesn’t cut it. I am starting with HD on BluRay. I might then make work on an anomorphic SD on DVD and VOD version.

I would like to learn about possibilities with Acrobat. How can I earn money with it? If there is way to make money with It please send me some additional links which will learn more.

Thanks,

Charles Chandler
https://www.charleschandlerphotography.com/

[Gary Adcock]

Start here.

https://help.adobe.com/en_US/Acrobat/9.0/Professional/WS65B80E79-F165-44f0-BBCA-0F142A758696.html

You have lots of buzz words there. Let me ask are you a still shooter or do you create moving pictures?

Your thought process has you having to learn motion- no simlpe task- to try and make your stills have movement. Any number of applications can create this for you and output a video file – if you plan on doing VOD (not a good term- usually used for Fee based download) you really want something that higher quality than DVD file converted if you are trying to show your images at the highest quality.

Can I assume that is your first or nearly the first foray into
video? If you really want to make a great video file from still images – there is nothing easier than Keynote, you can do video frame sizes, it has all types of transitions and effects and it can output as PDF, video, even Flash. It can create a self-contained- auto play file that is locked from unwanted access.

I’m an ex-still shooter, I went through this myself. Get the advertising out first – then learn how to take the next step.

gary adcock
Studio37

Post and Production Workflow Consultant
Production and Post Stereographer
Chicago, IL

https://blogs.creativecow.net/24640

[Charles Chandler]

Lately my breakdown is about 70 percent time lapse photography with a still camera, 20 percent still photographs and 10 percent real time video with an inexpensive hd camera.

For this project I would be using still photos to make a “slide show” video. I am confident that the end product will be marketable.

I have already learned the basics of Apple Motion and I think it is a good way to implement the moves and will integrate well with FCP.

I have used Keynote and I don’t think it can be used to make a quality HD movie which I can market. I think for a starter there would be problems incorporating a custom sound track.

I’m not sure what you mean getting advertising out first.

I think we are getting too far away from my first posting in this thread. I was looking for comments on my workflow and areas in FCP I wasn’t sure about. Any comments on that subject would be appreciated.

Charles Chandler
https://www.charleschandlerphotography.com/

[Pradip Patil]

Hi Charles

What’s your system configuration?
And to what extent are you planning zooms and camera motion on the stills?
I have done a stills based video in motion and FCP recently.
And my experience is that the large resolution stills really take a toll on the system.

In motion I got a warning every time regarding the max resolution that the system could handle. And It was definitely less than the stills.

I find it very useful to keep the one dimension of the image equal to that of the final video that you want. Depending on the motion that you want, you can keep it 1.5 to 2 times , but please plan this carefully.

And I have worked with JPEGs and unless they are very heavily compressed , it looks fine. If at all you are very fussy about the quality, you can try the size reduction and targa combination and see how it works out..

Pradip Patil
Mumbai,India

[Charles Chandler]

Hi Pradip,

Thanks for your input. You must have gotten up early. I see it is almost 10:30 AM at Mumbai. It looks like an interesting city. I will hope to make it there some day.

My Mac Pro:

Operating System: OS 10.6.4
Model Name: Mac Pro
Model Identifier: MacPro3,1
Processor Name: Quad-Core Intel Xeon
Processor Speed: 2.8 GHz
Number Of Processors: 2
Total Number Of Cores: 8
L2 Cache (per processor): 12 MB
Memory: 24 GB
Bus Speed: 1.6 GHz
Solid State Boot and Storage Drives

I am planning on exporting images from Lightroom at full resolution. I might change that strategy if I have any problems. I used two cameras so the sizes will be:

Nikon D40X

3871 x 2592 AR = .66942 3872/1920 = 2.02

Nikon D300

4288 x 2848 AR = .66418 4288/1920 = 2.23

Today I have been working in Motion with the 4288 x 2848 frames and haven’t had any problems, I haven’t seen that warning message yet. Motion seems to work with these images quite nicely.

Last week I had Motion crash several times with a very challenging job. I had a PSD image 1600 wide by 1200 high with about 120 layers, each of the layers was moved over 20 frames of time, one layer after another without any rest. I couldn’t get very angry over that. I didn’t get any warning messages. I think it crashed a couple times when I was scrubbing quickly. I was saved by the autosave vault as one or two of the crashes resulted in corruption to the file as I found it would crash instantly when I restarted the program and opened the file. Using an older version of the file from the vault took care of that.

Regards,

Charles

Charles Chandler
https://www.charleschandlerphotography.com/

[Pradip Patil]

Charles,

I don’t think you will ever face any problems with 24 GB of RAM. The system that I worked on had a mere 4 GB. 😉

Pradip Patil
Mumbai,India