T. Payton
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Tom,
Just did some tests. 8-bit and 16-bit RGB and CMYK PSD files come in just fine into FCP X.
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T. Payton
OneCreative, Albuquerque -
Look liked you exported a PNG from illustrator at 300 dpi. That would give you 7398×4517 image, which is causing the trouble. You want to export at 72dpi from the 1080 present in Illustrator.
See here:
BTW. FCP X works just dandy with PNG or PSD files.
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T. Payton
OneCreative, Albuquerque -
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Turns out you can create custom resolution timelines in FCP X. Just posted this tutorial:
https://library.creativecow.net/payton_t/FCPX_Custom-Resolution-Timelines/1
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T. Payton
OneCreative, Albuquerque -
Tutorial is up. It just got posted here:
https://library.creativecow.net/payton_t/FCPX_Custom-Resolution-Timelines/1
Although I didn’t know about your project before I recorded it, I walked through an example of making a project for a vertically mounted 720p display. 😉
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T. Payton
OneCreative, Albuquerque -
I just submitted it a few minutes ago. I’ll let you know as soon as it is up (hopefully tomorrow).
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T. Payton
OneCreative, Albuquerque -
I’m making a tutorial for how to pull this off right now. Can you hang on until tomorrow?
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T. Payton
OneCreative, Albuquerque -
Set the spacial conform to “none”.
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T. Payton
OneCreative, Albuquerque -
I’ve actually experienced this once. Seems like a glitch. Just move the clip down, or reconnect it. It will snap back down where it should be.
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T. Payton
OneCreative, Albuquerque -
Before you throw completely disgard Color Match, I agree it gives odd results sometimes, but other times it is pretty fantastic. Take a look at this quick keying example and color matching to the background from some Cow Tutorial footage:
One click later, in the ballpark:
And this, color mismatch between takes (footage from FCP X Training):
A click later the color changes are hardly noticeable:
I think you have to take the tool for what it is. It does color match and sometimes it gets there and sometimes it doesn’t, just like any other “automatic” tool: color balance for example. I just had a bunch of footage that had a horrible blue cast and color balance got me not to a final color correction, but at least to the point where the blue color cast wasn’t a distraction to me while editing.
Regarding the Color Match being “invisible”, I agree. However if it is just an issue of quality because of the image possibly degrading, that shouldn’t be an issue because FCP X renders with “float” precision and filters stacked upon filters don’t result in generation loss.
So when Color Match is working, it is very impressive indeed.
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T. Payton
OneCreative, Albuquerque