Aperture Stills to FCP

Can somebody PLEASE offer at step-by-step guide explaining how to re-size photos in Aperture so they won't look like total crap in the FCP Timeline.
My stills look great in the Viewer but they're horrible in the Timeline. I dragged the still files into a folder I created in my project file. I then imported the stills into the Browser.
My photos are 2496 x 1664. My video is 720 x 480, 29.97 fps, DV/DVCPRO - NTSC.
This is a very frustrating issue. Please don't tell me to do a Google search or to search this forum because I did and there's no step by step guide. I also searched the manuals and could not find an explanation.

OK, I tried creating a new project. I used a couple of HD Easy Set-up options but no matter what I choose, the frame size in my browser reads that the project is 720 x 480.
How do I set up a project so that when I import JPEG files that are already in an external drive, they will import into an HD project?

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FCP X 's browser will show me my stills in Aperture, but only the masters are showing. I would like to use a version of the still ( one that has been cropped and has other adjustments done to the still image. Is there a way to see and bring in the versions ?
I shoot most of my stills in RAW using a very flat picture style, ( same as the video) and then each one is adjusted. With Final Cut Express I would export my stills and resize to 1920 x 1080 on export. The newly exported jpegs woud be on the media scratch drive.
As I am typing my question it occurs to me that I might be better off using my previuos work flow for these large raw stills. While it would be nice not to have duplicate files ( one RAW and one JPEG ), FCP X might not be the best software for resizing raw stills. If I were contiuue with my older work flow where would the best place to put the converted and resized exports?

BenB,
Thanks for sharing your results.
I did a quick test also.
I creatred a new project and droped a clip in that was a 1920 x1080 29.97 fps AIC. ( It's AIc because it was on the media drive via a FCE lOg and transfer). So by my understanding my project is now 1920 x 1080 i 29.97 fps. I brought in 2 stills form the browser under Aperture. One was a 5616x3744 RAW picture the second one was a 3680 x 2070 JPEG ( a still from a video camera ).
In both cases the Background wheel was gray for a few seconds and then went to green, so some work was being done to the stills.
Clicking on the info button while the still was selected showed that the JPEG still was now a 1840 x 1035/60 fps JPEG.
The RAW still became a 2808 x 1872 /60 fps JPEG.
I am somewhat surprised at the dimensions of the stills and really surprised that they are 60 fps !
Whats up with that ?
FCP X seemed to handle resizing the RAW stills very quickly, now a whoe batch of them might be more noticeable. I haven't tried applying any effects or exporting them to see what they might look like. I may try that later.
If I can't find my versions of Aperture stills in the browser I guess I will use my old work flow and export the versions to a folder on the media drive. Then import them.

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I am working in a FCP 1080i project and there's a section of the story which calls for a seq of rapid stills. FCP however is having trouble processing them and the system keeps crashing. The still frames themselves are around 2000 x 1331 72 dpi. Any ideas to help with the performance of this?

Seems also if I put all the stills on a timeline, my render bar changes from green to red about halfway down the timeline. Is there a way to change my settings to get more processing power on the timeline for these stills?

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I have a 720x480 DV NTSC project in FCP 6.
I recently read a tutorial that said to use the following specs when importing digital still files to this type project:
Video Image - 720x480
Single-Layer Graphic (Tif/Png) - 720x540
Multi-Layered Graphic (PSD) - 720x480
So here is my problem... when I place a multilayered PSD file, it looks fine in FCP at 100%, but when I export the finished movie the stills look slightly jagged. When I rework the same stills and save them as a 720x540 Tif and reimport them to FCP, they look fuzzy in FCP but look much better in the final export (although very slightly distorted).
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Send us a link to that tutorial. It doesn't sound right. Your stills can be any size - the bigger the better. If you scale a 720x540 (or any) graphic past 100% it's going to look soft.
The other thing about working with graphics - don't trust what you see in the viewer and canvas, especially with an unrendered timeline. You can only judge the image quality on an external monitor.
There are countless articles and tutorials out there about preparing and working with stills in FCP. FInd a better one!
Best of luck.

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Hello everyone,
I have tried searching for a bit, but time is of the absolute essence. I am down to the wire on a project, and need to do some finishing things.
What I need to do is to import still images (from DSLR) into an HD timeline. I am working in an HDV 1080i60 sequence at 29.97 fps. Here is what I am doing...
- Import the particular image
- Everything looks fine in the viewer when I double click on it
- When I take it to the timeline though and open it in the canvas, it looks like absolute sh**. The colors look fine I suppose, but it looks incredibly pixelated.
I have tried exporting the video, thinking that it might just be in the canvas, but that didn't fix anything.
So, it is not a problem with rendering, as some have said where I have searched... It could be a problem with size, but I am not sure.
If anyone knows anything, please post in here or PM me asap. Thank you for your help in advance.
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Not within iTunes, no. You'd need to use other software to do that (QT Pro, for example).

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Hi guys
I´m a cameraman not an editor and have a few questions for you.
I have a project coming up where we will do the whole film as a series of stills.
The stills will be shot using a Canon digital SLR camera, then imported to FC
Now, is it a way to import these stills and work with them, make an edit and be able to export the final film either to HD tape or 35mm print with out the stills loosing quality?
I guess it might be a way to work with proxy copies of the stills, then when the edit is finished, somehow replace them with the originals?
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make an edit and be able to export the final film either to HD tape or 35mm print with out the stills loosing quality?< </div>
The whole thing?
I'd use After Effects at 4k resolution and work closely with your transfer house's engineers BEFORE you start the project. Get their specs and work backwards from there.
FCP could be where you assemble the project's movies form other applications but your moves and effects should be composited in software designed for the job. FCP's motion editing interface is impossibly lame and the rendering capabilities are inappropriately coarse for hi-rez motion graphics.
FCP will handle the editorial and assembly/output tasks easily and can be used with low to medium rez proxies for rough editing. Substituting out your proxies for your high res images and high rez movies can be tricky in FCP so build lots of time into your schedule to get it right.
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- Timeline index now includes sortable columns: name, roles, & notes, and you can edit the values! (huge!)
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*** is Gimp?
Anyway, I don't prepare hi-res, medium-res or even low-res photos for FCP. I import them and drop 'em on the Timeline (FCP will automatically scale them to Sequence and correct pixel aspect). Once I have them in FCP I can see how they look on an external TV monitor. After viewing them there, if they need any PS adjustments, I right-click on it in the Timeline and choose "Open in Editor" (Photoshop is set as my default still image editor in FCP preferences).
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