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what is the smartest way to import 100 images to use in a simple slideshow with music underneath?
what import settings should be used when trying to import 100 images to lay in the timeline for a simple slideshow style video with music underneath?
Final Cut Pro imports all images at their normal size and you can scale down from there to fit into the preview monitor. It seems to me that AVID imports all images sclaed down already to fit into the preview monitor. Which could lead to some images having black bars on the sides or stretching the image to fit.
any tips on importing these images so if i have to scale up they dont look bad?
Motion Graphics Artist and Non-Linear Editor
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You really don’t want to use your Avid for this. If you simply import the picture the Avid will scale it to fit to 720×486, and scaling it up from there will result in a soft, pixelated, nasty picture. To get a nice quality slide show would require using the Pan and Scan effect for every single picture in order to maintain the picture’s original resolution. That would take a lot of time and be a lot of heartache considering the easier method…
I see that you have expertise in After Effects: Use this program if it’s available to you. As matter of fact, check the following link out and your slideshow will be done in about 5 minutes.
https://forums.creativecow.net/articles/kramer_andrew/slideshows/slideshow.htm
Mike.
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[mr_gfx] “Final Cut Pro imports all images at their normal size and you can scale down from there to fit into the preview monitor.”
If you’re going through all this manual resizing labor in FCP for each photo, why not use Photoshop instead? Create a new PSD file 720×486 as your template and drag each photo to it, resize to fit in the template (same process in FCP) and save. This way you’ll have the correct size photo and be able to use it in any future application you desire – without ever needing to render the resizing effect. You’ll also be able to utilize Photoshop’s color and level adjustments – yet another render avoided.
If using Avid, import each photo at the time length (2 seconds, 5 seconds,…) you want them to be seen on-screen. Select the frames bin view, organize them to your liking in the bin, select all, overlay edit directly from the bin and whammo! You’ve got a spicy Avid slideshow in less than 5 minutes.
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great tip. this one is a great time saver!
Motion Graphics Artist and Non-Linear Editor
Software expertise include: After Effects, Avid Xpress Pro, Final Cut Pro, Dvd Studio Pro, Photoshop, and more. -
If you go the route of bringing everything into photoshop, you would really save some time by just recording an action to resize your photo, then using the batch automate process to covert all 100 of them.
Course then you have to bill less. 🙂
Johnny Cuevas, Editor
http://www.ckandco.net
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