[Captain Mench]

SP doesn’t have much more color space than DVCPro50 even, so I’d just try and capture it close to what the Z can give you. No need for 10bit. Won’t do any good except to chug your system.

Mike

[Captain Mench]

I believe what you might be looking for is Match Frame (F) or in your case, maybe Shift-F.

I mean, park your playhead over the clip in the timeline and hit Shift-F. This will find the clip/pic/asset in the browser. F just matches frame back to viewer.

Good luck,

Mike

[Captain Mench]

What I suggest you do is create a sequence that will work best for FCP and look natural to the eye.

Say… 720×480 or 720×480 anamorphic (16:9) or a basic PAL configuration.

This will do two things, again, make it pleasing to the eye and also make it simple for FCP to deal with it.

Then, edit your photos in the timeline scaling and moving to taste.

When you export… you can export to Broadband High and set the size from the OPTIONS button.

Will look great and relatively small file size.

More info to follow as needed.

Mike

[Captain Mench]

Maybe check if the Audio Scrubbing is on? Under the View menu – towards the bottom.

CaptM

[Captain Mench]

Probably tied to his preferences for FCP.

Can you bring them in yourself?

CaptM

[Captain Mench]

Is your sequence setting 16:9 also?

Check the clips properties and make sure the ANAMORPHIC tag is OFF. (in the browser… slide to the right quite a ways.)

CaptM

[Captain Mench]

Hmmm… that would be really handy.

Here’s an option though.

Use Shift-\ to play between In/Outs. Set sequence in outs where needed. You can also use Control-L to turn on the LOOP and then trim as it loops.

Only work around I could think that would get you close to what you want to do.

Mike

[Captain Mench]

I set the keyframes where I can see the photos.

Dbl click the photo to load into VIEWER

Place playhead somewhere near the beginning of the clip in the viewer, but after the transition

Set position and size as your starting point – set keyframes for those attributes

Then move forward in the clip and set your ending position – keyframes should then be set or set new ones if not.

THEN (here’s my trick that gets very quick with practice) SHIFT-I (‘eye’) sends you to the IN of the clip

ADD keyframes by tapping the center of the keyframe hoogie… then use the RIGHT triangle next to it to jump to the first set of keyframes you placed.

DELETE those keyframes

SHIFT-O (‘oh’) to go to the OUT of the clip

Add keyframes

Hit the LEFT triangle hoogie to go to the SECOND set of keyframes you placed. Delete them.

Preview

Pepper to taste.

Good luck,

CaptM

[Captain Mench]

Actually, going back and looking at that again… a bit harder for stills depending on the length you might need to remove the defaulted in/outs. Give Tom’s workflow a try… prolly the better of the two.

CaptM

[Captain Mench]

Here’s a little technique I like to use:

https://proappstuff.com/proapptipsvideotutorials/879F6B61-CFF9-4FD1-8D43-FDF89605611A/3180E26D-9B39-4796-8A79-6D0E2BE23FA7.html

Might not be the way YOU want to work, but is at least another tool for your toolbox.

CaptM