[MacDV] Photoshop resolution for DV?

[Dominion Market Research]

Mark,

PhotoToMovie is a stand alone program. <http://www.lqgraphics.com/> 
You can download a free trial from their site. I've used PTM for some 
past productions and found it fairly easy to use.

On a new project I'm going to want to add motion to some stills and 
have been learning how to do that within Final Cut Express. While 
it's not as easy as PTM or iMovie, it is possible and you don't have 
to export the PTM file and import to FCE. Author Tom Wolsky has a 
short tutorial on his web site. 
<http://www.fcpbook.com/Motion%20Control%20in%20FCE.html>

Thus far I've found PTM easier to use if I want to add complex 
movement or want to use multiple images. Simple motion is fairly 
straight forward in FCE. The tutorial deals with multiple images, but 
I haven't tried that yet.

Ross Hunter
Orange, VA

>Rich,
>
>I think you've lost me. If I'm understanding you correctly, and it's 
>possible I'm not, you're saying I should figure out what part of my 
>image I want to zoom into first. Then I set that part, when at 
>maximum zoom, to the proper pixel count. From there I calculate how 
>many pixels my un-zoomed image has to be? I still don't know how 
>many pixels my image should be, zoomed or not.
>
>What is PhotoToMovie? is it a plugin for some app or is it a 
>standalone application?
>
>Mark Des Cotes
>Systems Manager/Graphic Designer
>
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>
>
>
>On 6-Nov-06, at 10:25 AM, rgb at ellerbach.com wrote:
>
>>The easiest thing to do is to find what the smallest part of one of your
>>images that you'll want to see full screen and that'll dictate how many
>>pixels you'll need for that portion. Then simply use that to figure out
>>how big the original needs to be to have that many pixels in the
>>sub-picture. Make all of your originals that size and then use something
>>like PhotoToMovie to do your panning and zooming and the rest should be
>>taken care of for you.
>>
>>Rich

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