[Chris Poisson]

Kevin,

I would agree with you completely before our friends at Boris split the functionality of Continuum Complete so that you now have to buy a set for AE and a different one for FCP. Back then it was a good buy. Now it’s pricey.

Have a wonderful day.

[Chris Poisson]

Vanessa,

Your answers may be here:

https://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=301599

Have a wonderful day.

[Chris Poisson]

Andrea,

FYI jpegs from stock houses, like digital camera originals are pretty darn good. You can more than double the size for use in FCP, 2-3 times at 72 dpi is no sweat. BTW there’s a GREAT program called PhotoZoomPro which will blow them up and create new pixels, it’s amazing, do it all the time.

Have a wonderful day.

[Chris Poisson]

Andrea,

I did not mean to poo-poo your idea, please don’t misunderstand. Jeff is right about jpegs in FCP, but unless it is a fresh one from a camera, jpegs are not the best quality.

Regarding the render time issue, funny you should ask, last year I started the following thread, it will take you a few minutes to read it all, but you will see it started with a query very similar to yours. I did a methodical test on the render times of various still formats.

https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/8/936800#937050

Have a wonderful day.

[Chris Poisson]

Andrea,

No. Changing to PSD will not add quality. Only reason I can think of for doing it is if you want to add some transparency to any areas, then it will come into FCP as a sequence and the layer inside it will have whatever transparency you add.

Have a wonderful day.

[Chris Poisson]

Funny, writing the above post made me think this through, I checked and my ref to the Kona card was not hooked up, it works again now.

Thanks anyway!

Have a wonderful day.

[Chris Poisson]

Chris,

If you shot 24p and not 24pa then you just set up a regular DV NTSC easy setup. If you want anamorphic then check that box. 24p is used in FCP at 29.97, it adds pulldown.

Have a wonderful day.

[Chris Poisson]

I got one of those Horita boxes for just over $300.

Have a wonderful day.

[Chris Poisson]

Steven,

Did you do a key on the same footage with each plugin to compare? The range of badly lit or otherwise poorly shot greenscreens leads to pretty unfair comparisons IMO, but I have had good luck with DVmattePro and also the keyers in Boris Continuum Complete.

Have a wonderful day.

[Chris Poisson]

Sean,

There’s a cool little app that makes self-contained SWF files with players, Video2SWF. At verticalmoon.com.

Also, I understand Encore encodes Flash movies, I just bought it for that reason.

Have a wonderful day.