Roger Poole
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Shane you beat me to it. I’ve been doing this for years. I suggest saving in photoshop as a tiff, as layered PSD’s can be seen in FCP as a layered sequence. Save as a tiff then in the second save dialogue box make sure “preserve transparency” is checked. Save and ignore any warnings about layers. The layered tiff will be seen in FCP as a single layer document with alpha text.
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This subject has been widely discussed. If you take my advice you will leave FCP7 just where it is and use another computer for anything which requires a later OS.
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Is it a car or is it an automobile? DPI and PPI are the same thing, just different terminology.
https://www.endmemo.com/sconvert/dpippi.php
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Dave, export a freeze frame from a 1920×1080 sequence. Take that into Photoshop and note the resolution.
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Like I said, the native size of 1920 is 26 inches at 72ppi. On a 60 inch screen the pixels are just enlarged, which is why the picture looks sharper on a smaller screen when viewed close up.
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Pixels have a fixed size of 72ppi on screen. Taking a 35mm film frame, it has a width of 36mm, or 1.41 inches. So a scanning resolution of 1327ppi would be required to fit 1920 @ 72ppi. That’s the theory but in practice you would double the scanning resolution to capture greater detail in each 8 bits per channel 24 bit pixel. Then resize – 50% post scan to display at 1 to 1.
Scanning for print is different because pixels can be made smaller to achieve photographic like prints.
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You could try trashing your FCP preferences. There’s a handy tool for doing this. Preference manager by digital rebellion.
https://www.digitalrebellion.com/prefman/
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From what I think you are saying, you are closing your project then ejecting your media drive? Although it is good practice to eject external media drives prior to shutdown, doing that when you’ve closed your project but FCP is still running could prove disastrous. When you quit FCP it does all it’s internal housekeeping before it actually quits. So if it can’t find the media drives it can’t log the last used state.
Eject your media drives only when you have finished with FCP and/or shutting down your computer. -
Never save your scans as jpeg. That is a compressed format which FCP7 hates as it has to uncompress them on the fly to play them. Use Tiff, which is an uncompressed format, otherwise you will run into the FCP7 “out of memory” error.
Scanning resolution for video is a complex subject. In video we are used to pixels, or PPI whereas in print or scanning, DPI is the rule. However DPI and PPI, dots per inch – pixels per inch can be considered the same and are a form of measurement. TV screens have a resolution of 72 pixels per inch regardless of the screen size. The actual size of a 1920×1080 video image is 26.7 X 15 inches @ 72PPI. So, taking a photograph which was 13 X 7 inches you would have do double the 72 dpi scanning resolution to 144dpi achieve an image which would fill the 1920X1080 video frame, pixel for pixel. However, scanning at a higher resolution will give a better quality image and some wriggle room if you need to Pan & Scan. Things get even more complicated if the original is small and you want to display it bigger. Prior to scanning you need to have in mind how you wish to use that image. Bear in mind that 26.7X15 frame size and the size of your photograph. Get out your calculator and work out the scanning resolution required for that image.
Like I said, it’s complicated :o/
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Did you update your OS. As far as I’m aware MXF4MAC is Mac OSX 10.6 to 10.9. Whatever, if it worked before and doesn’t now, then you need to find what changed on your system between when it worked then stopped working.