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  • Posted by James Haefner on February 25, 2008 at 3:35 pm

    Hello All,

    This is my first post. Thank you for having this helpful forum.

    What size & file format should my photograph stills be when importing them into Final Cut Pro? Been getting a mixture between JPEG and TIFF.

    I am cutting my wedding video together and it has a lot of stills incorporated. My goal with the piece is to lay out on DVD for a one year anniversary gift. Thanks!

    Tom Brooks replied 18 years, 2 months ago 2 Members · 3 Replies
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  • Tom Brooks

    February 25, 2008 at 3:52 pm

    Did you try a search on that topic? Lots of answers have been posted in the past.

  • James Haefner

    February 25, 2008 at 3:59 pm

    I did. But a lot of the close related questions I found were usually regarding file transfer problems or animation.

    The bottom line is I have been getting mixed setting suugestions. Just wanted to re-confirm. Thanks.

  • Tom Brooks

    February 25, 2008 at 4:53 pm

    If you will be doing zooms and pans on the photos, make them around twice the pixel dimension of your sequence size. Make the smaller dimension twice the corresponding dimension (height or width) in the sequence. TIFF is usually less compressed than JPEG, thus can be better quality. Both will work, however.

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