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Still Images
Afternoon,
I’m finding when i drag still images straight from the SLR camera into FCP6, when using the motion and filter functions on them it’s slow and jumpy, with some filters (4 garbage matte) not really funtioning properly at all. I ended up puting them in photoshop to play with a couple of things and then saving them as .png files which seem fine to tamper with back in FC but i’m wondering if thats a normality with still image files taken directly from the Camera??Could someone please also give me a quick intro into the specs an image should be saved in photoshop so the dimensions arent distorted at all when opened in FC? I understand that the pixels are different (square and rectangle) but not sure how i go about getting it right?
I’m using DV PAL sequence
Big thanks,
Ro BeE -
2 Replies
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Your images off the camera are probably huge. For DV Pal you need to convert the images to something closer to your sequence resolution which is 720 x 576. This is rectangular pixel so appears anamorphic or stretched. If you are doing moves on your images, try saving them at double this pixel resolution.
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Thanks Michael,
The dimensions are set at 720 x 576 but it still has a stretched shape which doesnt work well visually for a rotating circle. Isn’t there a method or spec you can apply to the image so it keeps it’s true shape when imported into FC?
Ro beE
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