| thankfully no... and DPI is nothing more than a scaling factor. it doesn't change the actual pixels in an image
besides CMYK crashing FCP ( don't you love "designers"), you'll have problems with anything over 4K in size, and I would not go crazy with a lot of motion clips in the FCP TL. thats a basic recipe for problems because FCP simply can't address enough RAM to keep everything happy. also having an older video card with only 2K texture sizes can also cause problems - mainly in needing to render stuff that shouldn't need it.... and those large images also eat up FCP's memory space since they are held in ram for attempted RT playback
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On Jul 20, 2012, at 12:42 PM, Chris Meyer wrote: Does FCP actually take DPI into account? The very earliest versions of Premiere used to, but most apps have long since let ago of the notion of "DPI" having anything to do with video.
- Chris
On Jul 20, 2012, at 11:05 AM, Jim Curtis wrote: 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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