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HELP! Editing with stills in Final Cut
I am editing an animatic made up of entirely still images for my intro to filmmaking class. I am having a problem finding a sequence preset and export setting in quicktime conversion that doesn’t distort the aspect ratio of the image. Most of the time it comes out looking stretched and pixelated. I am using .psd files to edit with, and i got the best results when i exported the animatic with “none” selected as the compression type. What needs to be done for this thing to look as good as the images by themselves do!?
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What Easy Setup are you using? What is the size/resolution of your images? What is your delivery format?
The .psd files are more difficult to work with in FCP, in my opinion. I have found much better success working with .tif files.
Alan
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Initially I just tried using the easy setup for DV NTSC. But after that didn’t work I just tried custom setups, experimenting with different sequence presets and such. The resolution of the image is 1936 x 1296. I also tried using the camera native image which was 3872 x 2592. It offered the best results but the file size was far too large when I tried exporting an uncompressed video using quicktime conversion.
I’m not sure what you mean by delivery format…but I am just going to be burning a DVD in iDVD so I can turn it in.Oh, also…I’m using Final Cut Pro 5.0.1 . Don’t know if that makes a difference or not.
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You can also “fix” this on the Photoshop end, by applying an action to the stack of images in one folder, to format them in whatever way suits FCp for your project needs, before you import into FCP.
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nothing i am trying is working. I guess I just need to know which easy setup/sequence preset to use. The images i am using are coming from a Sony digital SLR. High res images that are either .arw or .jpg. I was importing the .arw images into CS4 and saving them as .tiff, then dumping them into FCP.
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