[MacDV] Re: Creating Slide Shows Part II

[Mark M. Florida]

I would recommend an app called Still Life.  It's super easy to use, 
fast, and the movies it produces look wonderful!

As far as the problems you are having with the "zebra" patterns, it's 
probably because your images are actually too *high* in resolution, and 
any single-pixel details are going to flicker back and forth between 
the interlaced fields of video...  I don't really know of a quick and 
easy solution (that doesn't involve high-dollar broadcast graphics 
equipment anyway) -- anybody?

- Mark

On Jan 4, 2004, at 10:32 AM, sb wrote:

> TV video resolution is 72dpi.
>
> Try PhotoToMovie.
> http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/15681
>
> Or switch over to FCP.
>
>  regards,
>
>  sb
>
> On 1/3/04 9:53 PM, "Chuck Kay" <chuckkay at mac.com> wrote:
>
>> Hey Guys;
>>
>> I have been very successful in creating slide shows using the iApp's.
>> Here is a question and some needed advice. I don't particularly care
>> for the "Ken Burns" effect in iMovie. I use Gee3's "Slick Motion" to
>> create pans and scans and then import the .dv files into iMovie. 
>> "Slick
>> Motion" has a much better interface, it scales and displays 
>> percentages
>> properly and accurately, and you can rotate the photos as well. Within
>> "Slick Motion", because of the high resolution files I use, I never
>> come close to scaling up to 100% of the images, much less over 100%.
>> However, I still have not solved how to get smooth motion on my photos
>> when I create the pans and scans. I always get "zebra patterns" or
>> other artifacts when viewing the resulting .dv files on computer,
>> digital video camera via firewire (Sony VX2000 and DSR250), DVD's, or
>> VHS tape. I use photos from two sources: 1) scanned photos at high
>> resolutions (300 dpi) or 2) my Canon 10D (6 megapixel) digital camera.
>> The Canon D10 at its highest settings, uses a resolution of 180 dpi
>> resulting in a file well over 3000+ x 2000+ pixels. When I import my
>> photos, I use photoshop to bump the resolution up to 3 or 400 dpi
>> without resampling (does not add any more pixels). Often times, I open
>> up the .dv files created by "Slick Motion" in Quicktime Pro, convert
>> the video track to "High Quality" and save. Then I import into iMovie.
>> While this does help and enhance the quality of the .dv file, there is
>> still too much of the "zebra pattern" in the resulting file. By
>> contrast, when watching a slide show from within iPhoto, the photos I
>> take or scan look sharp and beautiful (if I say so myself)-even the
>> simple dissolve from within iPhoto looks smooth. I have used another
>> slide show program in the past called Kai's Power Show that creates
>> beautiful and smooth transitions. Is there any way to improve on this?
>> Does Final Cut Pro do a better job of rendering .dv files from digital
>> photos when creating pans and scans? I have Final Cut Pro but have not
>> used it for photo slide shows. I know it can be done, because I 
>> observe
>> this technique on TV broadcasts where still photos look very smooth 
>> and
>> sharp using the "Ken Burns" technique. Any suggestions to help me out?
>> Thanks a bunch!!!
>
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