[MacDV] Photoshop resolution for DV?

[Colt Freeman]

Actually guys if you have motion, it's a heck of a lot easier to do the
keyframing within motion than it is in FCP. Also you have access to many
more features.

Regards,
-Colt Freeman

www.coltfreeman.com
Contagious Ideal Productions
Liberty: University Relations Campus Photographer
Champion Photography Editor
(919) 441-6401



On 11/7/06 9:37 AM, "Dominion Market Research" <ross at dmrmail.com> wrote:

> 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