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losing picture quality when doing slideshows with Final Cut Pro
Whenever I put images in final cut and export them, the quality of the images look utter garbage. The pictures im taking are 2848X4288. Whatever Frame Size I make and whenver i Export them, the images doesnt look as sharp.
Could anyone suggest that I do something so I can keep the same quality of pictures?
thanks!
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6 Replies
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What sequence settings are you using?
Kevin Monahan
http://www.fcpworld.com
Author – Motion Graphics and Effects in Final Cut Pro -
Final Cut Pro is not well suited to making high resolution slide shows. It’s designed to work with standard and high definition video formats, which are 720×480 (NTSC DV), 1280×720 and 1920×1080 (HD). Your large stills (2848X4288) are being automatically scaled down to fit within the lower resolution of the video format of your sequence. If you export your finished slide show at a higher resolution, you won’t get back the quality you lost in the initial scale reduction.
A better option would be for you to to use Keynote or PowerPoint, which are better optimized for high resolution slide presentations.
How do you intend to display your slide show? Are you planning on using a computer to present the slide show, or did you want to play it back on some type of video format, i.e. Blu-Ray, DVD, DV tape, etc.?
Please provide some more information about the intended purpose of the slide show for more useful feedback.
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Or if you’re doing a photo montage that’s intended to be incorporated into your video, consider using After Effects. I’m sure Motion would do a good job too, but I always use After Effects for this kind of stuff.
Richard Sanchez
North Hollywood, CA“We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.” – Bill Hicks
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You’ll get better image quality if you use image manipulation software to down scale your image before bringing it into FCP. If you’re using Photoshop, use ‘Bicubic Sharper’ interpolation – you’ll get better/sharper quality.
Alan is right. If you can provide detailed information about your intended workflow it will help clarify these and other questions.
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Brian -
Your thread implies you lack a fundamental understanding of video. That’s okay, we all had to start someplace. But you’re probably going to find out there’s a lot about video you don’t yet understand.
Your 2k images are being scaled to about 10%. Of course they look awful.
This is a topic we see about once a week around here so, in addition to answering the other guys’ questions, you can search the forum for “slide show” and find hundreds of helpfu
bogiesanl suggestions. -
Also look at Fotomagico, a great program for slide shows.
Have a wonderful day.
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