[Brad Kutmas]

Wow, 25GB is a huge file. You may want to break that down to a series of videos if you’re planning on posting it on Vimeo.

Using PNG wouldn’t make the file size any smaller, but the images may come out in better quality than the Jpeg.

“Some of your questions confuse me… because I am a beginner… “no matter what the case is, make sure FCP export dimensions are consistent with your compressor! ” I think , lol, I am compressing it when I go to File>Export>Quicktime Conversion… does that mean I am exporting it?”

You are correct, you are compressing the movie when you export using quicktime conversion, unless you choose a setting “do not compress”. Then you are further compressing the video when you use the built-in compressor. What I meant by the consistency of your FCP export and compressor is simply this; if you’re image sizes are 1920×1080, then you will need to make sure your exporting the video as 16:9 widescreen using quicktime conversion. Then, if you plan to compress the video to H264, make sure the video is once again set for 16:9. If you need step by step instruction for this, please let me know.

Thanks,
-Brad

Brad Kutmas
Bunn-O-Matic Corporation
Instructional Design Specialist

[Brad Kutmas]

Just by what you said regarding the 16:9 widescreen ratio (rectangle) then compressing to a standard 4:3 (square) is definitely contributing to the distortion of your images. First, you need to find whether your recording/shooting in widescreen or standard format before setting your export options in FCP.

Let me get this straight, you’re trying to export a video that incorporates still images on a separate track than the actual movie file, creating a video overlay effect? Second, are the jpeg images distorted and not the video or are they both distorted?

I could be way off with the movie file and using a second track if you’re essentially creating a slideshow with nothing but still images. If that’s the case, you need to make sure both export features in FCP and whatever compressor you’re using have consistent aspect ratios of either 16:9 or 4:3.

Now that I think about it, no matter what the case is, make sure FCP export dimensions are consistent with your compressor!

May I ask what format you’re compressing to?

What’s the name of the program you’re compressing with?

What’s the image size of your still images vs. the video size that you’re exporting and compressing to?

Do you have to use a .Jpeg or can you go with a .Png?

I may need additional input to give you a more solid answer, but this is all I can think of for now.

Brad Kutmas
Bunn-O-Matic Corporation
Instructional Design Specialist

[Brad Kutmas]

Sounds like you need to embed the fonts into an EPS. file.

I hope this helps

https://www.sketchpad.net/basics7.htm

Now, when you were talking about populating a paragraph with different names in InDesign, what is your process? A fellow co-worker of mine is having problems with getting different names to show up. Basically, what he is trying to do is create a multi-page document as a name tag template in InDesign. So, when given a list of names from a database, he will select and import the list into InDesign and have each name tag fill with the list of names. When he attempts this, it only fills every tag with one name. Maybe this isn’t relevant to what you were saying, but I thought I’d try anyway.

Thanks,

Brad Kutmas
Bunn-O-Matic Corporation
Instructional Design Specialist

[Brad Kutmas]

I know you can import font and styles from one InDesign document to another, but not sure about Illustrator.

https://help.adobe.com/en_US/InDesign/6.0/WS60910FA3-2BD7-449d-9904-05CFA551665Da.html

You can place the .ai file directly into InDesign. I do this quite a lot to create PDF’s from multiple Illustrator pages. Is this what you’re talking about?

Brad Kutmas
Bunn-O-Matic Corporation
Instructional Design Specialist