Loosing image resolution…

[Grinner Hester]

you’ll wanna use After Effects to do your image manipulation and animation. You can tinker with pan n scan as it will import images at their true size but with all it’s limitations, you quickly discard and hop into AE anyway. Avid still natively imports at your project settings size.

[John Pale]

Avid cannot import images larger than your project resolution.

You get around this by using the Avid Pan and Zoom plugin. Basically, the important image becomes a place holder you apply the Pan and Zoom plugin to. You then manipulate the full resolution file using the Pan and Zoom plug in. It has limitations…most importantly…no rotation.

A plugin called Moving Picture from Stagetools, does a better job and offers the rotation option. And a timeline based interface…while still remaining in the Avid application.

You can also, do it in AE, as Grinner suggested, if you don’t mind leaving the Avid application.

[Derrick Abeyta]

No need to export to After Effects. Just use the Avid FX plugin. Avid FX aka Boris RED is a 3d, titling and compositing program that works natively in the Avid interface. You’ll be able to pan, zoom, rotate, color correct, composite, etc. all in the Avid timeline.

[Grinner Hester]

We’re all use to keeping AE open for use as a DVE anyway. Avid just has not evolved in this area since 1995.

[Kris Anderson]

“Avid cannot import images larger than your project resolution.”

Actually it can, using the Pan & Zoom tool. Using the ultra HQ render setting it looks just as good as an AE export, if not better ‘cos you don’t have to leave Avid to do it.

[John Pale]

[Kris Anderson] “Actually it can, using the Pan & Zoom tool. Using the ultra HQ render setting it looks just as good as an AE export, if not better ‘cos you don’t have to leave Avid to do it.
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If you actually read my post you would see I did recommend the Avid Pan and Zoom tool. I was referring to the “regular” import process, which the original poster was attempting, which will not work.

[Grinner Hester]

pan & scan is just a band aid for those of us who have been yelling about the DVE limitations for so many years. I equate it marquee as a titler… useless. It’s still quicker to do it in AE with far more options and capabilities.
Premiere offers more power here at this point. That’s only hilarious because it’s freakin’ true.

[Derrick Abeyta]

Avid FX has been out for years. It’s included with the MC software and it works in the Avid timeline. Avid FX can create vector text, import eps logos, 3D and yes DVE moves. When was the last time you looked at a manual?

[Grinner Hester]

AvidFX is comical at best. I was first excited to extrude some text and enjoy some vector coolness but again, it’s much quicker and easier today to just use good ole after effects as we have had to since Avid’s birth. It’s DVE moves bring on the old familiar aliasing all avid editors are familiar with so it’s of no use in my workflow. I, like many of us, was full of wishfull thinking when they purcahsed SoftImage. It’s obvious now they did not aquire it to utilize it but to consume it.

bummer.

The truth is, nobody sells more FCP systems today than Avid.

[Ted Levy]

As John Pale pointed out, you’d be well served using a program called Moving Picture, made by Stagetools. It opens within the Avid interface and works with the high resolution still images. I’ve happily used it for several years. Takes no time to learn, and it’s cheap to buy. Very quick and user-friendly, with surpisingly fast render times.

Avid is still the most elegant, efficient and sophisticated professional editing application available, by the way. In the opinion of mine and many other successful professional Hollywood editors, its focus is and has always been on maximizing the creative editing experience. A toolkit of plugins like Moving Picture, Sapphire and Boris (or Avid FX) which are designed to tightly integrate with Avid, completes an excellent editing suite.