[Eskatonia]

Hi there,

I’ve just released a pack of plugins which might be very useful for your job. It creates slideshows from a folder of images on the timeline in FCP or motion.

You can download the free 14 day demo from here:
https://www.coremelt.com

There is no watermark or any other restriction for the first 14 days, so you can probably do the job with this.

I would recommend to rescale your images to just above your project resolution eg 800×600 72dpi. The plugin reads in the files outside of FCP so it can use the full file resolution but if you don’t need a super zoom then this will be fine.

If interlace flicker is a problem, render progressive as others have mentioned, but it depends on the speed of your move on the images, you may not need to do this.

Hope you find these useful, the plugins are $99US to buy the pack with ten different animation styles of slideshows.

[Eskatonia]

thanks for the suggestions…

in case anyone else finds it useful it worked really well to export directly from final cut pro as 100 percent jpeg sequences.

then in shake you can build a simple tree to split the individual interlaced frames and do a 50 percent slowdown.. as we already had shake that was the easiest method.

i can get beautiful clean looking 720×576 50 fps progressive frames using this method…

[Eskatonia]

ok but 1440 is the actual pixels captured (non square pixels)… to get a 1920×1080 quicktime means you have to decompress and
recompress which is almost certainly not what you want to do… so the default behavior when exporting a HDV movie from final cut is seriously broken….

exporting an image sequence leaves it as 1440×1080, when comparing the two the quality is noticeably higher…

[Eskatonia]

the specification don’t mean squat….it hasn’t been updated for sometime

I was hoping someone could actually try it……

what’s important is if the 9550 supports the right ARB_FRAGMENT_SHADER extensions
and I believe it does…