Joey Burnham
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iPhoto is your new best friend.
Go to File > New album, and then click slideshow. Drag all your pictures into the slideshow album, click the “Ken Burns” checkbox, add your music, export your movie.
Granted, you don’t have precise control on how each picture will pan and scale, but for birthday, wedding, consumer slideshows it works great.
Now I’m not too sure about adding the jpegs to the DVD. If it’s an autoplay dvd (make the disk in DSP), I don’t know if adding the extra files would somehow hamper the disk playing in a player, I’ve never tried it. Maybe DVD players only look at the VIDEO_TS folder and you could have another folder on there with your pics that when placed in a computer you could access.
Joey
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My bad. I thought he just wanted to make 1 track bigger instead of all of them.
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Well zooming the track zooms the waveform as welll. That’s the best he’s gonna get….
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If you command click on the line in the left hand audio panel right below the track you want to enlarge, it will enlarge only that track.
Cumbersome, but it works.Joey
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Do some searches on rotoscoping and motion tracking to get you in the right direction. It’s not a fast process, and even in this video it’s done poorly. You can see the stills are not exactly matching the footage.
Basically you need to cut out a still frame of the footage at different points, put it on a new layer, and motion track the footage so you can stabilize the still to it’s new position.
Best,
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[Wayne Carey] “Using the term anamorphic is not proper in this case. Now, when your talking about aspect ratios like 2.1:1 or 2.35:1, yes, they are usually described as anamorphic. The term anamorphic is referred to as aspect ratios other than 4:3 and 16:9, not pixel scaling as in this case. Just ask someone at AJA about this.”
Elaborate please.
Is not anamorphic just widescreen picture squeezed 33% horizontally to fit in a 486 frame size? Ignore HD for the time being.Joey
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[Eric Nicastro] ”
The main reason I’m transferring these projects is because we’ll go back to them from time to time to make revisions, they are commercial spots, and I don’t want to have to re-digitize all my media and re-edit everything. Am I able to move just the media I captured in Avid to FCP?”q
Is this not why you make a master of the project, texted and textless, and just layback to tape?
I agree with everyone else, tell the company it just doesn’t work that way. Either layoff to tape or keep an Avid around. Any new projects will be in FCP.
Best and good luck,
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It looks like it has a color fill animator on. If you turn the twirly next to “text” you should find it. That’s why only the last letter is turning red. If you adjust the offset properties of the text animator it should fix it.
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Sorry! I had a feeling that would confuse you. When you check “self-contained” the resulting file is quite large but contains all information needed to play back on any system. It’s “complete”.
When you uncheck that box, it creates a reference movie. Much smaller in size and exports much faster. It also creates “pointer” files which you don’t see but that references the media. These files get dumped into your render files (usually in the same folder as your capture scratch).
Anyways, the reference file will work fine to make your your files for your dvd. I personally don’t use toast but compressor instead.
I only brought it up because you said it was taking way too long to export.
So, export out of FCP, current settings. (Self-contained or not, doesn’t really matter). Dump that file into compressor with the 120 minute “best” preset and you’re done.
You might want to do a search on the DVD studio pro forum for MANY similar posts.
Best!!
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And making it self-contained will only take longer. Uncheck that box and it will speed up. It will only be a reference file but will work with compressor.
Joey