[Pedro Casais]

Oh yes you did and I am paying attention to it, but things keep coming up, how do you explain matching the frame size and be forced to render?

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PC

[Pedro Casais]

If I match the seq and clips settings perfectly, why is there I need to render? Is there something I could be missing to check and is not as simple to see? I’m not sure why my clip frame rates are all 640×480 and if I make my seq match i will have to render them all, but if I keep my sequence frame size in 720×480 then no render is needed, any ideas?

thanks,

[Pedro Casais]

–The sequence: aspect ratio may stil be an issue.

Thanks a lot for that tip, I switched the ratio to square and the canvas viewing looks much much better.

–The desktop preview: full screen gives artefacts – but there is also a 1:1option

Jaap, what do you mean by artefacts? It’s my poor tech vobabulary 😉 and do you mean there’s a 1:1 option I can select somewhere or you mean importing the photos straight to fcp? I tried that before but because I have 2000 photos and some of they were really big in size tiff and jpeg files, it was really hard for fcp to handle and iphoto was better for the process.

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Pc

[Pedro Casais]

Jaap, thank you for helping out. Yes they are both interlaced. I just noticed that the frame size of the clip is 640×480 and I had my seq frame size at 720×480, there was no render it. Now that you told me to check these numbers, i went to change the seq frame size to 640×480, the same as the clip, and the whole sequence need to be render, how come if you match them they need to be render?

Why is the Digital cinema desktop not an option to view full screen? is the only option a client monitor?

Thanks a bunch
PC

[Pedro Casais]

I am about to change the timebase in my seq, but it seems there’s no options for that on the seq settings.

[Pedro Casais]

actually there’s one difference, the time base on my clip is 30 fps and in the timeline is 29.97, is this a big deal?

[Pedro Casais]

yes they match

thanks

[Pedro Casais]

Thanks John, yes I meant 640×480, so please correct me if I’m wrong. If I export with 640×480 sd video frame size and then I convert this qt.mp4 file into a file that works well with fcp, could I choose a video monitor size dimension such as 1080i without making the picture look stretch? Or is this video frame size lock to a specific video monitor size dimension?

The final viewing purpose of this project is a mixture of options. I’m doing a family video with all the photos. First, I like to play them in a big LCD monitor for everyone to enjoy and then I’ll be making a few dvd copies and upload a version to the web page. So, right now I’m just looking to re-compress this qt.mp4 that I get from iphoto (only option for this slide show of photos) and make it FCP friendly (without sacrificing the quality or taking too much time) so I can edit some music, vo and titles.

Thanks a bunch

[Pedro Casais]

The follow up question to the one above is this one:

I am trying to figure out how to convert a 1 hour photo slide show that I exported as a quick time MP4 (680×420) which was the only option I had in iphoto, to a quick time compression that FCP likes, keeping the best quality but without making the file super big. is H.264 an ideal compression for FCP?

thanks,

[Pedro Casais]

Thanks Glenn and Andy,

Those are really cool ideas.

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PC