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Nick Appelbaum
October 4, 2011 at 11:48 pm in reply to: Problems with “Ken Burns Effect” in FCP 7

Thanks for all your help, Joe!

I did a bunch of test sequences and messed around with the framerates and codecs, and I found that if I changed the framerate from 23.98 to just 24 flat, it got rid of the problems I was having. Of course, the Canon footage I want to use is 23.98, so I might not be able to mix them together, but we’ll see.

You’d think FCP could make “video” of any still image at any framerate without problem, but go figure.

I’ll let you know how it goes!
Nick Appelbaum
October 4, 2011 at 7:32 pm in reply to: Problems with “Ken Burns Effect” in FCP 7

Well, I did some research on that 4000 pixel count thing, and I heard that it’s actually 4000 X 4000 (after all, HD Video is 2,073,600 pixels per frame, or 1920 X 1080. All of my images are less than 4000 X 4000, so I don’t think that’s the problem.

As for compression, the first time through I saved the tiffs without compression, and I still ended up having issues. The picture below is what an uncompressed tiff looks like when I converted from jpeg to tiff (I had to convert it back to jpeg in order to post it on this board, but it looks the same.) The distorted bar on the bottom third of the picture is just one example of the type of distortion/artifacting that i’m encountering.

I have also tried saving the tiffs with compression, and while they come out clean (no artifacts visible in the still frame as pictured above), they still have artifacts show up when i put them in a video timeline. I’m beginning to think this is a timeline problem, but I pretty much have to keep my sequence settings as they are, because I’m using some video as well.
Nick Appelbaum
October 4, 2011 at 6:42 pm in reply to: Problems with “Ken Burns Effect” in FCP 7

Thanks for the advice, but I don’t think it worked 🙁

I used Photoshop to convert the jpegs to tiffs, but I still get the artifacts on my frames. I tried it out with a variety of compression options (None, LZW, JPEG) and Pixel orders (RGBRGB and RRGGBB), but none of them gave me the results I needed. In the case of the tiffs with JPEG compression, I wasn’t even able to import them into final cut; it gave me an error that said “File Error: 1 File(s) recognized, 0 access denied, 1 unknown.”