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.

Thanks.

Benny Christensen

Producers Playhouse

Oklahoma City

405-858-0700

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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
Producers Playhouse
Oklahoma City
405-858-0700

"Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened." - Sir Winston Churchill






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