Slideshow: settings, importing, merging…

[Tom Wolsky]

1. Individual TIFFs or PNGs would be better otherwise the sequence would be 2560×1440, which is not what you want.

2. See 1.

3. Use a 1920×1080 or 1280×720 sequence preset with ProRes as the codec and the field order set to None.

All the best,

Tom

Class on Demand DVDs “Complete Training for FCP7,” “Basic Training for FCS” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy”
Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 4 Editing Workshop”

[Fernando Sam]

Thank you, Tom, for taking the time to answer me and for your valuable input.

I still remain with a question (or two…) concerning my second point, and this is:
• Would it be better to work with different sequences (four in my case) and merging those at the end in one master sequence (–mind you, we’re talking about more than 300 slides, nearly all with effects, transitions and motion’s settings. It takes 16 image-tracks and six sound-tracks) or
• Doing the lot in just one sequence.

And…
Since there are going to be several repetitive tasks concerning the use of motion/effects, can I just copy attributes/properties and paste them from slide to slide?

If the better choice is to split: How do I merge the four sequences into one?

Hope to get an answer this time again. Thank you very much.

[Tom Wolsky]

How long is the overall program? If there are natural breaks that go to black and silence I might be tempted to do it in multiple sequences. If not, I’d do it in one. One sequence can be more cumbersome to work with, but might save you render time on the back end.

All the best,

Tom

Class on Demand DVDs “Complete Training for FCP7,” “Basic Training for FCS” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy”
Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 4 Editing Workshop”

[Fernando Sam]

That was quick… Thanks, Tom!

The overall project will take 13 minutes. It is an homage to dubbing actors in Spain and I will go through the 33 most well known of them since the history of dubbing movies started in de years 30 of the last century.

The project is been planned quite mathematically: Each actor/actress will take 20 seconds + an intro to the subject of 105 seconds and an end of 15 seconds.
I will show, together with the photograph of the dubbing actor, three of the moviestars he/she gave his voice to in Spanish. The faces of those stars come from illustrations/paintings (not photo’s) in movie-posters.
The original voices of the stars will mix into the one of the dubbing actor which become predominant taking then protagonisme.
The names of those belonging to the pictures will also, at one time, appear and disappear in motion.

All the mentioned will happen with adjustment op transparency, in and out zooming + some motion.
A musical soundtrack will be at the bottom, bringing psychologically all the 33 pieces together.
Between piece and piece will be a couple of seconds fading into black (or, perhaps, some other effect I’ll think of when editing).

In total, I’ll be using 16 image-tracks and six audio-tracks.

Obviously, all the 33 pieces will have technically the same editing and properties, but I would hate to be repetitive, robotic and… boring, so I intend to bring small nuances in each of the 33 subjects to make it more lively and human. But, previous to apply those nuances, the basics of each subject will be exactly the same.
And this is why I would like to know if there is a way to copy and paste attributes/properties from one slide to the other; it would make the job much shorter.

Well, that’s it. I’m glad my message for help caught your attention, Tom, because I really would like the project to be instructive, entertaining and… well done.

Thanks again.

[Tom Wolsky]

For 13 minutes I’d stick to one sequence.

All the best,

Tom

Class on Demand DVDs “Complete Training for FCP7,” “Basic Training for FCS” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy”
Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 4 Editing Workshop”

[Fernando Sam]

Thank you very much, Tom.