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Photograph compatibility
I am trying to edit a few hundred pictures with the FCP, add some music and voice over to them. There are two types of picts:
1 jpeg image
2 tiff documentThe size of them vary from 300 x 300 to 1400 x 1400.
Of course, my first ideal try was to import them all and add them to a seq, but I see now that it is going to take some more cleverness if I don’t want to spend time rendering.
What do you recommend for time efficiency and to avoid rendering? I’ll be making some moves on the stills and a few effects.
Thanks,
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7 Replies
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I hate to break it to you, but if you’re wanting to work with photos in FCP, you’re going to have to render them. Especially if you want to do moves and effects on them. These are elements that FCP has to generate, therefore they will always need to be rendered when ever they are added to a sequence.
Michael Nease
Firebare Productions
http://www.firebare.com
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I would consider taking all your pics into After-Effects. Move them, resize them, etc and then output that to one movie in the codec of your FCP timeline. This way you can work with them in FCP without rendering every time you add each pic.
Ernie Santella
Santella Productions Inc.
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Look into a program called fotomagico. It is a great program for slideshow based things like you are doing, saves a ton of time to. Once you finish the photo part you can export a video file if the whole thing and bring that into FCP if you want.
There are no “technical solutions” to your “artistic problems”.
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Even better, use the free pan & zoom plugin from Noise Industries
https://www.noiseindustries.com/fxfactory/panandzoom/Yes I might be biased, but I use this plugin on broadcast productions all the time, very easy to use and enables you to do dissolves easily whilst the picture still zooms/moves.
https://www.noiseindustries.com/fxfactory/panandzoom/
Peter
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Thanks a bunch.
PC
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Pedro,
Well, I like Fotomagico for this as well, but the Noise Industries plug is nice too. But, no one here told you about optimizing your stills for this kind of thing. 300×300 images are going to blur or pixelate at a broadcast size. You may need to upscale them with PhotoZoom Pro, which does a great job. As a rule, photos for animating in FCP should be twice your frame size at 72 dpi. FCP chokes on hi rez files.
Have a wonderful day.
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Thank you Chris.
PC
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