motion on stills- low to high res

[Chris Poisson]

Amy, FYI Fotomagico is extremely adjustable in the length of each still. You can select them all and make them all the same, so timing is VERY easy. It also auto-animates if you want. The fastest solution bar none.

Have a wonderful day.

[Chris Poisson]

Peter,

Keyframing in FCP is abysmal ESPECIALLY the ease feature. You should check out Fotomagico yourself!

Have a wonderful day.

[Eric Holzapfel]

Hello Dave et al,
Hope you see this post/reply. If I do not get a reply, I will
try re-posting on the main FCP site.

Even though this thread is over a year old, it does apply to me in a sense. I am developing a fairly long program using stills in FCP.

I do notice the images that have no motion (pans, etc) are quite sharp, as are the source tiffs. I am judging the “quality” from the FCP sequence in the canvas. I notice some “artifacting” or fuzziness on images that I pan or zoom on. You mention ProRes 422 as a way to “preserve” the still image quality. I like the sound of that.
I do not remember, at this moment, what my sequence in FCP is set for. That may be my problem. I will check that.

I plan to output the sequence to dvd, and use the 4×3 NTSC DV setting. I will assume that I should send the sequence to compressor for this.

What would be the “correct” settings for my sequence in FCP?
I am using 3 image sizes, cropped down to 720×540 for no motion, 1440×540 for horizontal pans, and 720×1080 for vertical pans, and 1800×1350 for images I would like to zoom in or out on. All these pixel settings are at 72dpi.

Thanks for a good resource on FCP.

Eric