| Perhaps I should elaborate. I've been tasked to do a couple of "slide show" projects (Yikes!). Whenever I brought a bunch of JPEGs in and tried to do Motion moves, and dissolves between them, FCP crashed regularly. When I brought the same stills into Pr, I had no crashes.
And on other projects, where I only had occasional stills, I'd still get crashes from the JPEGs, but not after I converted them to TIF.
That's just been my experience. Maybe it's a codec thing. I think I'm the Pig Pen of finding things that crash Mac apps.
On Jul 20, 2012, at 11:51 AM, James Culbertson wrote: FCP 7.03? JPEGs and PNGs work just fine in my experience. I'm working on a feature length doc that I inherited for finishing tasks that is a smorgasbord of formats - in addition to JPEGs, and PNGs, there are also BMPs, Tiffs, and PSD. No problems whatsoever. What I would avoid are PDFs.
If I were to choose I would stick with TIFF and JPEG, and use PSD when necessary.
James
On Jul 20, 2012, at 7:12 AM, Jim Curtis wrote: I've had bad luck with most still formats in FCP. It's pretty hostile to JPEGs and PNGs, IME.
Try TIF or TGA, which also support an alpha channel. TIF is what I use (when I have to.)
Pr is a LOT better at handling stills, except really large ones. On Jul 20, 2012, at 8:55 AM, Benny Christensen wrote: That has been my workaround, but it is annoying because I don't like to use PSDs in FCP. I usually like a flattened file for titles.
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On Jul 20, 2012, at 8:52 AM, Glen Tubbesing wrote: You might try using Photoshop's native PSD format, instead.
On Jul 20, 2012 6:38 AM, "Benny Christensen" < bennychristensen@me.com> wrote:
I know this isn't the Photoshop list, but since it is pretty integral to our workflow here goes.
I am having a couple of issues lately.
1) PNGs are not acting the same way they used to. I can't get the empty spaces to read as alpha holes in FCP. Is there a better format to use since PICT files are no longer an option.
2) Sometimes the program simply will not let me Save a file. The Save window pops up, but the buttons are not colored and won't react. In fact, at that point the program is completely locked up and I have to Force Quit.
Has anyone else seen these problems?
Thanks in advance.
Benny Christensen
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