[Bill Willins]

first off – 72 dpi would be just fine ( easier to email ) …. again as Kevin explains, if you have them scanned at 300 dpi, you have tons of latitude in re-sizing, since they will end up 72dpi in your FCP project. For me, I prefer to work in the smaller 72 dpi file size . As for scanned image size ….. I don’t like too much motion or movement working with stills … easy to look cheezy. Note, the “Ken Burns” effects are usually fairly slow and subtle. So for me, 2x your native 720 pixels wide native screen size would be way more than adequate. Also lots of motion can introduce lots of pixelation. good luck.

[Bill Willins]

“Do you mind if i shoot you an email if i have any issues? ” No problemo.

[Bill Willins]

If you have a photo scanned at 4×7 at 300 dpi ( high resolution), then in a program such as Photoshop you can easily expand this photo up to 1200 pixels wide at 72 dpi ..without losing any quality.This works because your cutting your dpi by so much. It would be a very good isea for you to have a photo program ( Adobe Photoshop Elements is inexpensive and awesome) for cropping, sharpening, resizing, etc. And then when you import your finished photo into FCP, you will often have to apply a Flicker Filter and or very small Gaussian Blur Filter to remove any jitteries in your final video. BW

[Bill Willins]

have your client deliver the photos at 1200 pixels wide ( let the height be what it is ) JPEG , 72 dpi. FCP only needs photos at 720 pixels wide, however you want them a little over sized so that there is extra room for slight movements, ie, pans, pulls etc. Once you import these photos in to your FCP project, you can control size, movement etc in your motion tab. Place the photos in your capture scratch folder on your hard drive .. they need to stay there so that the link to this media isn’t broken. Some of the photo’s will most likely be verticals (I ask for horizontals if possible) . in this case you can either crop them to scale 720×480, or use the vertical shot with black on either side of photo. Using photos in video production is such a useful technique, that many people don’t take advantage of enough. BW

[Bill Willins]

thanks Chuck . just returned home , read your E mail, downloaded TNEF’s Enough …Voila !! I quickly opened the winmail.dat file my client sent me. your awesome.

[Bill Willins]

Yes. It would probably make the most sense to cut an abbreviated ” highlight” show . What a great project for some enterprising Film/Video student. If yours is a success …. I see the possibilty of a video clips Creative Cow web site. Are you listening Ron ?

[Bill Willins]

Ok Michael…. for all of us poor people who don’t live in the L.A area, is there any chance that you can video these awesome LAFCPUG meetings for the rest of us , and post them on the website. Sell a sponsorship to pay for it. Many thanks in advance 🙂

[Bill Willins]

Thanks Steve. Yeah.. I think you nailed my question by saying that “most likely I am looking at a work print”. So the work prints look a lot rougher than the actual film footage ehh ? I’ve never had any film experience … so I find this info interesting 🙂

[Bill Willins]

I don’t think you’ll ever get good looking “clean” QuickTime movies with a data rate at 150 kb/sec. I normally set my data rate closer to 300 kb/sec before it looks good.

[Bill Willins]

OK..thanks guys. Here was my problem. I went to the site , and downloaded the appropriate file. What I got was a file on my desktop Windows Media.sitx . To open this I had to manually open Stuffit Expander … and drag this icon into the window. It wasn’t an automated action ….. the normal behavior for all Mac downloads.