Using High Resolution stills in a Standard definition film

[Steve Rhoden]

Its always best to reduce still images to almost the resolution
of your project Jane!

Steve Rhoden
(Cow Leader)
Film Editor & Compositor.
Filmex Creative Media.
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[Jane Wielecki]

Thank you Steve.

[Steve Rhoden]

Sure!

Steve Rhoden
(Cow Leader)
Film Editor & Compositor.
Filmex Creative Media.
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1-876-461-9019

[Graham Bernard]

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[Jane Wielecki] “If I keep the stills larger, will this cause any lag once the film is rendered?”
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No. Once the project is rendered, and therefore what ever resolution you’ve set the render to, that’s it, end-of! However, you may notice what is called “tweening” of fine detail, which might be killed off if you reduce your reso to start with. But Lag, here you’re meaning audio lag, no.

Grazie

Video Content Creator and Potter
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[John Bolton]

If you intend to do any panning or zooming IN on the stills, then resize then to max of twice the project size setting. Like Graham mentions, if the pictures are a very much larger size than the project settings then you get a sort of shimmering effect on fine details……. John

[Thomas Roberts]

Larry Jordan has a really good video on using still frames for FCPx. I found this video to be very helpful in Vegas.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oINcdTV1lY

T

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[Graham Bernard]

Tom – perfect explanations. More than that, the reasoning and motives WHY!

Thanks

Grazie

Video Content Creator and Potter
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[Bob Peterson]

As others have said, or implied, the stills will be reduced to the size that which the output format supports. That is part of what the rendering process does. So, the question is not whether the high resolution will be lost in rendering, it is what software will be used to perform the reduction. My bias is to ALWAYS use the software which is built specifically to accomplish a given task. For stills, my view is that the conversion to a new resolution is ALWAYS done best by software which is designed to do that job. I don’t believe that software which is designed to render video is best when the job is to reduce the resolution of a still photo. That job should be done by a still photo editor.

[Jane Wielecki]

Thank you Thomas. This is a great link.
Regards, Jane

[Jane Wielecki]

Thanks Graham.