Stills Project

[David Roth weiss]

All depends on how much you wish to zoom in on the stills. I typically get them at 2 or 3x the pixel aspect of my chosen format so I can zoom in to 100% and be in close. So, if you wish to do the same you should think about getting your stills about 2000 to 2100 pixels wide, by whatever pixels high.

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los Angeles

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If all you are doing is photos then Fotomagico will save you a lot of time

https://www.boinx.com/fotomagico/overview/

[Antonio Atzei]

Txs David
So going to a SD DVD to ha format of 720 x 576 should be ok 1920 x 1080 (almost enough)
What are the drawbacks using 1920 x 1080 compare to 3 times the output format 2100 x 2000

The photo`s are already scaled for this format I won`t have to do any cropping only choose a trasition e put a soundtrack on… don`t know if i`ll use keaframing as yet….

David txs for your suggestion.
ciao
Antonio

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[Antonio Atzei]

Txs Zac
I just finished browsing the fotomagico site…. looks interesting….

If I don`t like my creation on FCP I`ll probably do it that way….
txs & ciao
Antonio

BABALOTTI PRODUCTIONS
SYDNEY
POWER MAC G5 QUAD SYSTEM
5.5GB RAM
1 TB OF MEMORY.
Blackmagic Decklink Intensity Pro
Dell 24″ 2407 WFP
FCS 2

[David Roth weiss]

[Antonio Atzei] “What are the drawbacks using 1920 x 1080 compare to 3 times the output format 2100 x 2000”

The only drawback would be that your ability to zoom in would be slight diminished. No big deal.

Now, if you don’t intend to make moves by zooming in at all and you’re just going full-frame, then having such large stills isn’t necessary and will just cost you more rendering time without any benefit of additional quality. However, the time to scale them down also needs to be considered, so if I were you, I’d just go for it…

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los Angeles

POST-PRODUCTION WITHOUT THE USUAL INSANITY™

A forum host of Creative COW’s Business & Marketing, and Indie Film & Documentary forums.

[Niclas Bahn]

Also have a look at the following tutorial:

https://library.creativecow.net/articles/bolton_roger/imageflow.php

All the best,

Niclas

[Chris Poisson]

Antonio,

It is the exception that I need anything bigger than twice the frame size, and it should be mentioned that the resolution at twice the size should be 72 dpi. FCP chokes on large stills, so keeping them to the minimum is best.

BTW, I second the vote for Fotomagico, it is a brilliant companion to FCP, saves a boatload of time and works very well.

Have a wonderful day.