[Heidi Schrodinger]

Arrggghh! If only I knew this some months ago ( if only I had done my homework properly!)

I am at the stage right now of placing all individual projects ( stories) on to one new big project. I was just going to set up another SD project/timeline for this.

I ( think I ) am willing to rescale all my still images within the projects as you outline to fudge a HD output
( none of the stills are keyed to move, only a few have dissolves or opacity effects, all of them are resized from the originals )

But do you mean I may have to find the original photos and take them through Photoshop and resize to a different pixel ration for 1080i or 1080p and then drop them back in the timeline/project?
If so, I don’t think I would meet my deadline!

Cheers,
Heidi

‘Getting back into making after a long time off’

[Heidi Schrodinger]

Thanks Raphael. I have been rescaling the pics a little and losing the edges, some to the images detriment.

My main viewing will be from a dvd on a tv, I suspect. It will be shown in a gallery setting. Slight chance of broadcast, but since it is SD may not be possible. May just be too crappy looking.

I have edited the thing already- nearly ready to output. Just getting a sound mix done.
So since I have edited in Pal, can I convert to 1080 or 720 progressive? Or is it too late?

Should I do a separate different output for dvd and one for internet- like to put on vimeo or whatever?

Cheers!
Heidi

‘Getting back into making after a long time off’

[Heidi Schrodinger]

Thanks Stephen, that all does help!
I had no little choice but to go SD- budget and convenience- it’s one of those films that is taking a long time to make.
Cheers,
Heidi

‘Getting back into making after a long time off’

[Heidi Schrodinger]

Sounds awesome and I wil look into it…. is it user friendly for a newbie?
Heidi

‘Getting back into making after a long time off’

[Heidi Schrodinger]

Ok, so I have trawled through, trashed a heap of unused stills, and resized a whole bunch, then dragged them back into the External HD where they replaced the stills that were to big. All your instructions were extremely helpful.

I resized the stills as:
pixel dimensions: width: 1000, height 667
Document size was changeable but around 35 cm width, 23 height
Resolution 72.
And I stuck with JPegs.

Now suddenly I think I’ve messed up with the pixel dimensions. Is 1000 appropriate? Seems so small.
I am using PAL SD which is 768×576 I gather. So I tried to keep the pixel dimension just a bit higher than that, in case I was cropping the still in the sequence.

Can any one say whether I have I done the right thing or not?
I feel like I keep falling on my face.

Cheers.

‘Getting back into making after a long time off’

[Heidi Schrodinger]

I just tried the batch processing on new stills, a great tool! Thanks.

I’ve gone into just one 4 minute project of 6 in total, and written down the file names of the stills used. There is about 35 of them. So I figure I have about 200 huge high res files to find and resize in the project so far, in amongst perhaps 500.
That old proverb “A stitch in time saves 9” keeps coming into my head. Oh well, I know now.

I was wondering IF there is a way for me to either put these files that have been edited in, into a bin or folder and delete the other files not used in that event ( as I said, about 500- I whacked them all in as I have a big external HD- pure foolishness. FCPX is struggling with my sequences ).

OR can I change their names so they are more easily identified then export out to photoshop elements editor ( which I have because it- or more like I – was cheeeeeap!) and batch resize, then just replace into correct event, where they wil miraculously replace the stills on my timeline in my project?

Does that makes sense? Is it totally wishful thinking? I know changing names confuses computers a great deal… and people for that matter.

OR do I skip all that and trawl through Iphoto where I keep the originals ( hopefully), prepare them at the correct dpi and size, import them into FCPX and manually edit each one into its place in the project again?

Hope I am making sense. It’s getting late plus there is a wombat under the house making a terrible racket, hard to think.
Cheers!
Heidi
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‘Getting back into making after a long time off’

[Heidi Schrodinger]

Thanks Jeff and Eric, very helpful.

From your help I realise that my stills are FAR TOO BIG for my project ( DV PAL) … I have put many, many stills down, no wonder the computer is having a hard time- stuttering/ going out of sync in playback, dreadful looking dissolves etc.

I have a hell of a lot of very similar stills on my (1tb 7200 firewire) external HD, but only using some of them. I play around til I get one that works, thats why I have so many in the event library.

My new question is:
IS there a way of asking FCPX which images/still I have used in my sequences so I can export them to Photoshop elements and resize.

OR renaming each still so I recognise them in a file and then drag to photoshop for resizing.

OR do I have to ( cringe ) locate each file manually and drag them back to the internal HD, resize, re-import, then lay them over the sequence as new files?

I know I should have asked this question weeks ago, but back then I didn’t know what I didn’t know.

Thanks!
Heidi

‘Getting back into making after a long time off’