[Sharon Katz]

Thanks for this Rafael and Shane. You’re totally right, when I switch to an Easy Setup with 24fps, FCP imports audio and stills on the 24fps timebase!

In the galleries I’m using a laptop and projector to project the QTs directly onto a wall. For that I upscale the video (FCP does a pretty good job) and use the standard outputs for HD – 24p and Pro Res codec.

There are a slew of choices though for the sequence render options while I’m editing – this doesn’t have to be high end because it’s just for the working space. Should I use Pro Res proxy? Photo – JPEG?

[Sharon Katz]

Thanks for this Shane. Totally understand about not using Animation codec – will do.

There are 2 end products. For gallery projection it’s QT 24fps Pro Res 422. For broadcast it’s HD 24p.

Which Easy Setup should I select? And what would be a fast render codec for the sequence?

Adobe Premiere would be better for these formats for sure, but I like the way FCP let’s me scale canvas elements. To do that and edit both with Adobe I have to bounce between After Effects and Premiere. FCP isn’t ideal, I totally agree, but it’s a good working space.

[Sharon Katz]

Richard, that’s brilliant, thank you!

By the way, since you know this material so well, would you have a quick look at my post on the timing problem I’m having with Final Cut Pro 7 importing a clip 12 fps?
https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/8/1143420

I’d be very grateful, and thanks again for your help.

Sharon

[Sharon Katz]

Thanks Richard, that works great for straight in and out. But how do I paint on the individual frames? Like adding a ball bouncing in different positions on each frame? When I open the file, I just get one layer. I can’t see or edit the individual layers or the frames.

Sharon

[Sharon Katz]

Thanks for the suggestion. I tried it without success. Maybe because I’m on Mac? I’m on OS 10.6.8. Are you on Mac?

I imported a simple QuickTime video of 12 frames running at 12fps. While I can see that Photoshop has created 12 layers and they are all correct, Photoshop also created a Timeline of 30 fps. I’m not sure why it didn’t recognize that the film clip is 12fps.

So I changed the Timeline from 30fps to 12fps and rendered the video as an image sequence at 12fps. What a mess! – it spit out 23 frames: 1 frame of each of frames 01 to 04, missing frame 05, one of frames 06 to 09, missing frame 10, one of frame 11, and 15 copies of frame 12!

[Sharon Katz]

Thanks James. The version I’m working with (Photoshop 12.0.4) is dropping a lot more than 1 frame though; something like half of the frames are missing. ie. CheeziPuffs has 499 frames and Photoshop only exports about 194 of them. The rest are… poofed!
– Sharon