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Need help, editing with stills (scans) PROBLEM
I am still having the same problem. I need to cut in a couple of stills (scans from newspapers, pict files) into a sequence. It’s not working.
I imported the files, this worked. They show up in the source monitor. When cut into the timeline they become transparent.
I didn’t move the original files after importing.
When I click into the source monitor and the pict file is loaded, ther is a + on the top right of the monitor. what does that mean? This might be the problem.
Need to finish that cut today, any ideas what I am doing wrong?
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1 Reply
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Paul,
The plus sign is definitely the cause of the problem. This means that you still images have an alpha channel associated with it. If you don’t want the images to key (which is what the alpha channel is telling it to do), you can select your still in FCP, go under the Modify menu – Alpha Type. Select “None/Ignore.”The other option is to use Photoshop if you have it, open your image, select the Channels tab and delete the channel that says “alpha.” Doing this will make sure that your images don’t try to key.
hth
Leigh Thomas
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