Whats the best method to zoom around stills…

[George Socka]

My vote is for plain vanilla PPro. Process your images in Photoshop first for basic color correction and resizing, cropping, close cropping and alpha channel tricks, new backgrounds. Save all as psd’s. If you need the same image as multiple versions on several layers, merge (stamp) to a new layer and save as separate files so that if you make changes you affect only that one image. Season with video and other still backdrops, track matte to taste. Mix mpeg, QT and avi with impunity.

Use built in transitions and motion keyframing to make the moves. The dissolve transition is a lot less work than keyframing opacity. The slide transition is less work than keyframing motion. Use PPro’s title capability to create actual titles, masks and color blocks. Use separate sequences to build repeated items like logo blocks.

Just finished a project of 22 minutes at 5 sec per image so that is how many images… 7 video tracks deep in places. (80 photos as 5 sec each is only 6 minutes or so). Then they wanted a 4 minute teaser so I just copied the sequence and started deleting stuff until it fit. Need an approval copy as a wmv to email or post on the web? Just export directly from PPro

Sure AE has nice text effects, 3D and the card dance effect and the shine plugin, but if you thought PPro was slow to render wait till you export from AE… And how do you get from AE to a DVD – well you render. PPro will export to DVD directly without some intermediate format to add artefacts, and if you need more control over DVD structure, will export to mpeg2 right from the timeline for use in your favorite authoring tool. And I have yet to figure out how to edit audio in AE.

[Gianluca]

Hi,

I am trying to install the imaginate’s ppro plugin with no success. Does it work on 1.5?

I followed the install procedures (a. install imaginate – b. reboot – c. install quick fix – d. reboot) but I still don’t see any canopus thing in my p. 1.5?

Any idea?

Thanks.

Gian

[Gianluca]

got it!