Re: photos from photoshop into hd sequence

Hey Ken,

I have photos that are 1080 x 720 pixels and 180 resolution (these are 4 by six inch photos)

What is the best way to bring these into a hd dimension sequence in fcp?

Thanks!

Larry

What is the dimenstions of your HD frame in the timeline? Check sequence settings.

--ken

Ken,

The dimensions of the hd frame are 1920 x 1080

Thanks,

Larry

So make your photo that size, unless you want to do a pan and scan, make dpi 72.

--ken

Yes, I want to do some of the ken burns movement, so i will leave resolution as is. Correct?

144 dpi is probably large enough for you to do your work. You do want to keep the photo file as small as possible. If you need more enlargement, then leave it where it is.

You might find that you use up the extra dpi when you resize the photo to 1920 x 1080. Try 144 dpi first, test.

--ken

Ken,

If I out any photo into the sequence, I get the "dropped frames" warning. Any clues?

Larry

Need to know about your Mac model, what version FCP and QT, how much ram, scratch drives, how full?

What format is the photo?

Did you render?

--ken

Ken,

FCP 6.0.2
Quicktime 7..3.1
Macbook Pro 2.2 GHz Intel Core Duo
2 GB Ram
Internal Hard Drive has 10 gigs available
Photos are jpegs
Yes, i rendered.

Thanks!

You said internal hard drive, are you talking about your boot drive?

10 gigs open, what is the total of the drive?

--ken

Yes, it is the boot drive and it is a 110 gig drive. Uh oh...

Does not work.

First off, asking your boot drive to run the Mac OS and FCP and also playback video in RT is just too much to ask. You will get dropped frames.

An other issue is that you boot drive is way too full and you can run into problems, 10 gigs open is just not enough. you'll have to clean out some space.

You are going to have to get a media drive for your video.

--ken

maybe i was mis informed but i thought that DPI didn't matter when it came to video... all the matters is reslution size... a image at 720X 480 with a 72dpi will look the same as a image with 4000 Dpi... if you want to do paning a zooming.... ken burns effects then you resulution needs to be bigger then you sequence... for example you shooting 1920x 1080 then your pics signifigenly larger... 2k range works great... although one up side is that graphics and pictures do better when enlarged in video then acutally video does. so you can acually get away with haveing images sized to 1920x 1080 and then zoom in.... anyway thats what i was taught and thats what my 2 min web search brought up....

Mike

Mike,

Correct.

--ken