Not another FCP Slideshow Question!

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Not another FCP Slideshow Question!

Posted by Josh Brown on August 7, 2009 at 7:21 am

Hi guys,

I’m trying to create a photomontage to be viewed on computer only. I have struggled with this for weeks and am still not happy with the results. Here is one of my better test videos:

https://www.vimeo.com/5754872

I know there have been a lot of questions on this forum about producing slideshows in FCP and making still images look good in video. I know, because I have read and re-read them all at least 10 times. Furthermore, I have done countless google searches to try and find information on this subject.

I’ve learned about and experimented with different types of pixels (square and rectangular), with different image resolutions (from full res to same res as video sequence), with different sequence settings (such as 8-bit uncompressed, square pixels, no field dominence), with different render settings, with de-interlacing, anti-aliasing, gaussian blur and directional blur filters. I have tried it all! I have also played around with Photoshop video actions.

I still cannot completely remove jagged edges, shaking and shimmering in some parts of the video. It seems to me that FCP rendering just cannot cope with animated still images, particularly when there is a lot of fine detail in the image and when the animation is quick. I think that the problem is the result of rendering as it shows up both in the canvas and in any export.

I want to use FCP to build the slideshow because it offers me video editing options that I cant get in other programs like Fotomagico and audio editing options that are lacking in After Effects, and I don’t like using Premiere.

So my question is this: is there a way of building my sequence in FCP and rendering somewhere else, say in Motion or After Effects? Or of exporting an unrendered, uncompressed quicktime movie to be rendered elsewhere?

There is a FCP plugin called automatic duck which can transfer and translate FCP sequences into After Effects projects. This sounds like it might solve my problem. Has anyone heard of, or better still used, this plugin before?

Any advice would be much appreciated.

Thanks,

JB.

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Scott Sniffen replied 15 years, 11 months ago 6 Members · 6 Replies
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Peter Wiggins
August 7, 2009 at 12:52 pm

Josh,

i do quite a lot of animating of stills and use the FREE Noise Industries Pan & Zoom plugin all the time:-

FxFactory Tutorial – Pan and Zoom Freebie from Noise Industries on Vimeo.

When animating stills you will always suffer from Moire, but that even happens in real life!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moire

Hope that helps

Peter
Josh Brown
August 9, 2009 at 11:59 pm

Hi Peter,

Looks like a great plugin! I’ll have to check it out. I’ve actually been using a similar plugin called PhotoMotion from SlickFX. Its works pretty well but it doesn’t have as many features as NI’s Pan and Zoom. My best option might be to use Pan and Zoom in Motion.

Thanks for the info on Moire too. Interesting to learn that it occurs in real life. I guess its one of those things that you cant entirely eliminate, you just have to do your best to minimize it.

Cheers!

Josh.
Hector Berrebi
August 10, 2009 at 6:47 am

hi Josh

Noise Industries Pan & Zoom plugin is a good tool. recommend it too.

another one i frequently recommend here is this one:
https://www.popcornisland.com/category/final-cut/

which is a free script for After Effects that might save you the need to purchase automatic duck.

much simpler, but works

Hector Berrebi
Schibber Group
prePost Consulting
Chuck Purnell
October 21, 2009 at 2:07 am

There is a cool plugin for doing slideshows in FCP called Image Flow V2 from Coremelt. They have a demo movie on their page and it looks pretty cool. https://www.coremelt.com then search for Image Flow V2.

Cre8tive Minds Entertainment, LLC
Roger Bolton
December 16, 2009 at 1:21 am

Moire can be elminated with anti-aliasing and motion blur. Both of those are included in ImageFlow FX V2 in all plugin hosts.

Roger
CoreMelt

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CoreMelt V2 plugins
Scott Sniffen
May 28, 2010 at 3:03 pm

In regard to Photomotion Producer, how can you edit a PM project once created? I want to get back in, delete, add, etc.

Thanks,
Scott

Scott Sniffen
Sniffen Digital Cinema
http://www.sniffen.com

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