Alex Milne
August 23rd, 2006, 02:03 PM
If this topic has been covered before please tell me where the post is. I ran about 6 searches and coudn't find anything specifically on this, but I know I read an article or thread on this somewhere (maybe not this site).
Anyway, I'd like to assemble time lapse video from digital SLR stills, pretty self explanatory. I've already pieced together about a 1 second segment from frames taken every ten seconds for five minutes on a canon digital rebel. I shot in JPEG, 1536x1024 @72dpi. My biggest problem is that the quality of the picture is severely degraded from its original condition, and I'm pretty sure this is because FCP reformats the image to 480x640. How, and in what program should I reformat the image to get the crisp, clear frames that a DSLR allows? Obviously I'll have to stay within standard video resolution, but how do I avoid the "blur" that I'm seeing? (or is there a way to do all this in high def?)
To complicate the question, I'd also like to have all of this in anamorphic 16X9, as it'll be spliced in with DV and 8mm footage. Any hints on that?
And finally, is there some way to avoid painstakingly draging and dropping, and cutting each still down to one frame? Some magic keyboard shortcut that I'm missing?
I know this might be a basic question, but I'd appreciate the help.
thanks-
-Alex
Anyway, I'd like to assemble time lapse video from digital SLR stills, pretty self explanatory. I've already pieced together about a 1 second segment from frames taken every ten seconds for five minutes on a canon digital rebel. I shot in JPEG, 1536x1024 @72dpi. My biggest problem is that the quality of the picture is severely degraded from its original condition, and I'm pretty sure this is because FCP reformats the image to 480x640. How, and in what program should I reformat the image to get the crisp, clear frames that a DSLR allows? Obviously I'll have to stay within standard video resolution, but how do I avoid the "blur" that I'm seeing? (or is there a way to do all this in high def?)
To complicate the question, I'd also like to have all of this in anamorphic 16X9, as it'll be spliced in with DV and 8mm footage. Any hints on that?
And finally, is there some way to avoid painstakingly draging and dropping, and cutting each still down to one frame? Some magic keyboard shortcut that I'm missing?
I know this might be a basic question, but I'd appreciate the help.
thanks-
-Alex