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Problems resizing photos for FCP – have researched but no luck
Hi there,
I’ve got a really frustrating problem that I’ve been trying to sort out with getting family photographs to run in FCP at a better quality and would be very grateful for any advice please.
Basically, I know how to add them to the project and key frame them for moves, but it’s just that they always look a bit fuzzy.
Now, I’ve done my research and have scanned the photographs as 72dpi in TIFF LZW format as this seems to be recommended.
The problem is I keep seeing people saying that for 16:9 (PAL) I need to resize photographs to 2560 x 1140 if I want to do moves on them. Does 2560 x 1140 mean Pixels? Do I change this in Pixel Dimensions in Photoshop?
I’m a noob with FCP – but an uber-noob with image sizes etc.
I have been using Image Capture to scan my photographs in – and it won’t let me scan to the 2560 x 1140. The closest I can get is if I whack my dpi up to 300. I am using Photoshop CS version 8 – and can’t see a way of scanning directly into it – even by going to file> Import – there is no scan option.
Some of the photographs I have are quite small – so I was wondering if that is what is making them look ‘fuzzy’?
Should I be going to Image > Image Size and entering the (2560 x 1140) values in there AFTER I’ve scanned it, or do I have to somehow scan the image in at these values?
The other thing is – that when I resize the image in Photoshop I can never get the exact value of 2560 x 1140 – and obviously if I take off the image constraint the photograph looks squished.
Before posting this message I experimented with a scanned photograph at 200 dpi and it was much better – 300 even more so.
If anyone could please tell me where I am going wrong I would be extremely grateful.
Many thanks.
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2 Replies
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300 DPI is the way to go. The lower the resolution the worse it’s going to look. Also try saving it as RGB instead of CMYK.
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Please don’t reply to this post – problem sorted. Funny how different info comes up by changing search terms in google lol :0)
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