SCANNING PICTURES TO FINAL CUT PRO

I don't know if this is the best place to post this but I am scanning pictures to put into final cut pro to do a montage, what is the best dpi to use for scanning pictures, when I put it in final cut I need to enlarge them a little but then it seems to pixalize the picture.

mac g4 & mac g-5 & mac g-5, Mac OS X (10.4.6), final cut 5, motion, soundtack, dvd 4, All digial juice

Posted on May 18, 2006 9:06 AM

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May 28, 2006 7:50 AM in response to David M Brewer

Hi David B

I agree completely with your very good advice

I am just a bit confused by your opening statement. The OP clearly stated he wanted to import to video:

''I am scanning pictures to put into final cut pro to do a montage''

therefore video frame size, and PAL and NTSC international standards are pertinent. I thought the comments from the more knowledgeable contributors, compliments your post admirably.


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May 30, 2006 11:01 AM in response to Denis Murphy

Yes, and then they berate you for asking in the first place or speak up when there's nothing positive to say

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Troll? I'm game.

Sorry if I've posted duplicate information. I don't bother to track every newbie or easily researched thread or re-read all threads in which I may have already beat to death a previously dead horse more than twice.

There's a dead horse in every post of Dead Horse Threads.

bogiesan

Jun 2, 2006 3:17 PM in response to David M Brewer

Ok fellas, I watched a tutorial at CreativeCow on how to do stills. It involved importing the scanned photos (pictures from a magazine) into Photoshop,setting the image size, and then saving and importing into Final Cut Pro. He then goes on to show how to create the movement etc etc.
I have been doing photo montages as mentioned above in my posts and must have been lucky that I didn't have to do those steps. I have saved alot of time not doing the photoshop step but its good to know how to do it that way. I usually do anywhere from 100-1000 photos per montage. I guess here's the big dollar question. Is it really necessary to import into Photoshop to get the proper pixel sized image? I may have been uneducated and did it the way I've been doing it for years but it has worked for me.
Is there any advantage to adding the photoshop step?

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