[Dorit Grunberger]

Hi kris

I don’t have answers to all your questions right now, but will tomorrow. I’m not aware of any broken deinterlacing issue.
The project isn’t video, it’s still photos with effects, transitions and 2 music soundtracks, Since I shoot video at 24p (panasonic DVX100), I think the timeline opened that way (23.98fps),
Thank again and good night

[Dorit Grunberger]

Thanks a bunch Don. Appreciate your help.

[Dorit Grunberger]

Thanks Kris

So if I’m making a quicktime movie to play on native 1024 x 768 with a 4:3 format, what settings would I need going out of FCP and doing an H.264 conversion (in FCP – Export – using QT conversion – QT movie options – what should the video settings be and what size makes the most sense? Do I check deinterlace source video? Do I preserve aspect ratio by fitting within dimensions? And do I do a custom export size dimensions of 1024 x 768 (if the projector is set up that way?). I’m still a little dense about all the different settings. I will try my best to get the info directly form the venue A/V, but just in case, I’ll have a playable DVD as well. My Macbook, unfortunately, only has 30GB HD and 2GB RAM. I don’t have room to install FCP on it, so playing it through FCP isn’t an option.

Many thanks in advance,

Dorit

[Dorit Grunberger]

Thanks Don

Do you think there could be a problem projecting the uncompressed quicktime movie? Should I do a H.264 conversion or a photo jpg to get the size down? Do you know if I need to resize the the projector specs?
Bottom line, I’d like to project something better than an authored playable DVD if possible and not too problematic for us or the venue (in Portland, Oregon and we’re in San Francisco so communication is a bit dicey).
Anyway, many thanks for your insight

Dorit

[Dorit Grunberger]

I don’t think iPhoto can make any of the motion and other transitions and effects FCP makes, but maybe I don’t know something.
So if I understand correctly, there is no way around compressing and playing from an authored DVD. Such a shame. I wanted it to look better than that. I guess I still don’t understand what the problem is with feeding a Quicktime movie to the electronics of the projector. Sorry to keep coming back to that. I understand that uncompressed might be a problem but I’ve had great results with these types of photo montages set to music exported from FCP as H.264 quicktime conversions. I never had to project them though. So if anyone feels like mentoring me around these issues that would be great

And thanks again

[Dorit Grunberger]

“For a photo slideshow uncompressed video is way overkill. You will be very satisfied with the photo jpg compression. Good luck.”

Thanks so much for the response. I didn’t know about the export photo jpg option. Will it also export the sound track then? And all the transitions/effects?
And no less important, what do I tell the venue in terms of what they need to supply? For the visuals as well as the soundtrack?

thanks again, this is very helpful