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still image compression
Hello all,
I recently have been shooting animation with my new digital still camera (canon elph). I have been shooting images that are either 1600×1200 0r larger. I have been importing them into final cut as a file and then droping them into the time line. Final Cut has been taking a long time to render them like an hour for 1000 images ( i am using a G5). and at the higher qualities its telling me it will take several hours.1. What is it doing when it renders these files? I wanted to use the digital camera as a way to shoot super high quality looking videos, if I am bringing it into final cut to be put in a 720×480 video project am I loosing all that extra information or is it craming those pixels into the smaller space?
2. What is the best way to shoot high quality digital animation as stills that can be cut in with 720×480 video? I know that there is a way to do this but I think I may be ding it the wrong way. How can I retain al the information from the digital photograph?
3. is importing it as a file and then droping the filme in the time line the best way to do it?
4. When I look at the stills at 200 percent in the canvas they have the same digital grain as a 720×480 video but they are twice as large, why dont they still look good at that size?
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2 Replies
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James,
The biggest problem of all is that you’re turning your high quality stills into DV quality video. If you cut them on an 8 or 10-bit uncompressed timeline you’d notice a huge difference in quality. In addition, your stills are quite large, too large really, especially if you are using FCP 4 or 4.5, which would be my guess. FCP ver 5 would handle stills of that size a lot better and would render much faster.
DRW
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but what can I do ? How can I not turn them into DV quality video? Are they still higher than say what a VX 2000 would shoot or how about a canon XL2 ? How high quality can DV video go and what size image should I be shooting.
And what about burning them to a DVD should I out put them as a quick time file and then put them in DVD studio pro uncompressed ?
I am using final cut 5.These are the questions I really need the answers too.
Thank you for responding to these questions.jimmy
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