Need help importing 3008×2000 jpegs into FCP w/CS2

[Jeffrey]

You can directly import just about anything into FCP like psd, jpeg, tiff, etc. Just do a File>Import>Files and select the images you want. Select one at a time or all 200 at once. As far as re-sizing, that depends on what you want to do with the pics when they’re in FCP. If you want to do zooms and pans and tilts on the pics then you should leave them at a rather large size. If not, then re-size them to fit into the 720×480 window (assuming you’re working with DV) And, in that case it’s best to re-size in Photoshop, you could even record an action in CS2 to make it a batch process.

Jeff

[Rodney J]

Thanks Jeff, I’ve noticed that stills in the Viewer seem to have better resolution and are sharper than the same image in the canvas. Will that be the case after I’ve created my DVD or any final movie? And is that the result of the image in an NTSC format?

Regards
RJ

[Gunleik Groven]

If the whole sequence is made from stills and your resulting media is a DVD, you shpuld consider using another format thatn DV.

First, you do not want to interlace the pictures.
Secondly DV treats graphics real bad.

Go for an uncompressed format like uncompressed 8 or 10 bit if you have the diskspace and set filed-dominance to none.
It will look a lot better on the resulting DVD.

Cheers and merry X

G

[Gunleik Groven]

… or maybe even the animation codec…

G

[Rodney J]

More great tips, I’ll try them all. Thanks for taking the time to help out.
RJ

[Chris Poisson]

Rodney,

The wrinkle with any compression method other than DV is it won’t play back to your monitor over FireWire. You’d need a video card like a Decklink to do that. But, you can work in DV until your all done, then change the compressor to say, 8 bit and render that. Your graphics will look better in your DVD.

As far as judging quality in the canvas, it is always crappier looking than the viewer. You need a good broadcast monitor to judge quality.

Have a wonderful day.

[Blub06]

Funny thing is…

You could try to use iPhoto!!!

No Joke.

Drag pix into iPhoto, put them in their own folder, sort by date or title and export as a QT file.
hehehehe.

Who said free software was worth what you pay for it.

Chris

[Craig Seeman]

Wouldn’t DVCProHD play through firewire? Much higher resolution. Still compressed but 4 times less than DV. DVCPro50 might be a compromise.

[Blub06]

Actually…

I cant get the thing to do 30fps , sorry for the interuption.

Chris

[David Bogie]

First question: Why do your images need to be so large?

You will only see about 1/10th of the frame in video. if you scale them in FCP to fill the frame, you’re wasting processing time, rendering time and throwing away billions of pixels. Save your images as anything you want, FCP will handle them, but don’t make them any larger than they need to be for any moves you plan to make.

Realize that in video there is no DPI or LPI, there are only pixels.

bogiesan