Newbie with FCP. I was reading the book and was a little unclear on how to inport digital stills in Final Cut Pro. The stills I want to import into FCP is in my I-photo folders. Most of pictures are JPEG and I forgot the resolution but it is over 3200 X 2000 from a 7 Meg pixie camera. Do I need to down size them down to 740 x 480? If so I would have to use Photoshop.
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Importing Stills into FCP
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You don't have to do anything.
Just drag the image you want from iPhoto to the desktop, then File>Import that file into Final Cut.
FCP, from what I've seen does fine with high-res images (if you wanted to do Motion and zoom around on the photos), but if you just want a still with no zooming, I'd go ahead and scale it down to NTSC740x480 in Photoshop to save file size.
Just drag the image you want from iPhoto to the desktop, then File>Import that file into Final Cut.
FCP, from what I've seen does fine with high-res images (if you wanted to do Motion and zoom around on the photos), but if you just want a still with no zooming, I'd go ahead and scale it down to NTSC740x480 in Photoshop to save file size.
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