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John Mckau
December 20, 2009 at 2:04 am in reply to: question: best way to import jpegs to make animation

Hey mate, thanks for the response. I can go back and resize my j pegs – but what size should they be in pixels?
John Mckau
December 18, 2009 at 6:39 am in reply to: question: best way to import jpegs to make animation

Hi Matt,

Basically I’ve jumped in with minimal know how and have been doing okay up til now, but, obviously, there are things you need to know – it’s not magic! I am doing a ‘cell’ animation – basically making each frame in Photoshop, saving as jpegs (I now have found out it’s better to use TIFFS) and importing to FCP – not using FCP for any manipulation (only non-side-by-side cell stuff is for a couple of times when I use the ‘overlay’ effect for cells – placing 2 on top of each other – which is where I am now unable to render. FCP manual said go to system settings>memory cache and change things there (change to what?), but it still doesn’t seem to want to render…)

As for output, at the moment just be for the web – websites and such (for now. I may eventually want to output it in different formats… Sorry I can’t be more specific – it’s a video for a band at the moment and just that. However, I am happy enough with it so far to be thinking of trying to push it outside of the band, so then I will have to decide an output).

Thanks for the reply and sorry to just be confusing!

John
John Mckau
December 18, 2009 at 6:28 am in reply to: question: best way to import jpegs to make animation

TIFF it will be, thanks!
John Mckau
December 18, 2009 at 6:27 am in reply to: question: best way to import jpegs to make animation

Thanks, Ben,

TIFF appears the go. I will go back and resave. As for output, it will just be for the web – websites and such (for now. I may eventually want to output it in different formats… Sorry I can’t be more specific – it’s a video for a band at the moment and just that). I am doing no manipulating in FCP, it is all just putting cells next to each other, except for a couple of times when I use the ‘overlay’ effect for cells (this is where I am now unable to render. FCP manual said go to system settings>memory cache and change things there, but it still doesn’t seem to want to render…)

As for: ‘it’s also to do with the fact that the canvas in FCP DOES NOT PLAY IN FULL QUALITY.’ – brilliant information.

Cheers!
John Mckau
December 18, 2009 at 6:17 am in reply to: question: best way to import jpegs to make animation

Thanks, Mike, a couple of others said Tiff as well. As for the rendering, I have 38 gigs on my computer free, but FCP said I needed to go into ‘memory’ in system settings and increase capacity. It doesn’t seem to work …