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Activity Forums Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy jpg image size

  • Posted by Tammy Jez on June 13, 2008 at 7:12 pm

    Hi, I have photographs larger than 720 x 640. I’d like to use them as their original size, so that I can zoom up and around without it scaling up more than 100%, but FCP automatically resized them to 720×640 when I import into the project. Is there a way around this? I’m a new FCP user; on Avid there is an effect called “Pan and Scan” which lets you externally link to your image so that you can zoom and what not without scaling beyond 100%. This is what I’d like to do in FCP. Thanks,

    Tammy

    Peter Robertson replied 17 years, 11 months ago 3 Members · 4 Replies
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  • Ed Dooley

    June 13, 2008 at 8:05 pm

    One way is to go into the Motion tab and select the scale as 100%, then you can set keyframes to move the image around.
    Ed

  • Tammy Jez

    June 13, 2008 at 9:00 pm

    thanks for the tip, but it looks blurry when i bring the scale up to 100%. the original image size is 4288 x2848, so i would like to be able to zoom in very close without it become distorted.

  • Tammy Jez

    June 13, 2008 at 9:10 pm

    oh never mind ed, i just had to render it. didn’t realize. thanks!

  • Peter Robertson

    June 18, 2008 at 8:41 pm

    I create slide shows from jpegs using FCP and I add motion paths (zoom, pan, etc.) to the jpegs with Motion. When I play the DVD on a flatscreen monitor the jpegs that have motion are ‘pixelated’ particularly in the highlights i.e. I get a very distracting moire pattern as the image moves. Is there any way to get rid of this? I’ve tried deinterlacing when I compress but that doesn’t seem to make any difference.

    thanks.

    Peter

    Pedro

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