Making movies with SLR stills in FCE4

Does any one have any sources of information for making movies using still images… not stills captured from movies, but stills taken using a 'still' camera either digital or scanned from film for time lapse movies and multimedia slideshows. I'm particularly interested in issues of quality both importing images and exporting the final product, this is the thing I have the most trouble with. I know it's possible to get fantastic results I've seen them on the web… Magnum in Motion, VII, Media Storm etc but all the advice I can find is not to surprisingly 99% aimed at video movie making.
One other thing; I'm currently using iMovie 09 which is fine as far as it goes but I'm finding it a bit of a battle and am considering trying FCE 4 as it seems a little more intuitive and capable. I have read in a couple of reviews people complaining about the constant need to render and wonder how much of this is down to developing a sensible work flow and getting the hang of the software. As far as I can see from the tutorials most of the filters etc can be previewed without rendering. How does this particular factor compare with other products out there by Adobe for example?
Sorry for the long question… I don't expect long answers!
Matt.

I recommend Photo to Movie to make movies out of still images. I looked at a number of different products including iPhoto, iMovie, FCE and decided on Photo to Movie. The feature set is strong with good transition, motion, audio, etc features and the usual range of output options.
It's strong point is the image quality of the output whether for TV, web or computer - seems to be better than most other options at higher prices.
Learning it is relatively easy to get started but there's enough capability to reach the movie making production of more expensive products. There's the demo option to let to test before buying. It is inexpensive for what you get. Support and advice can be requested and is given quickly and personally.

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My Background... sorry for the long post..
I have made multiple movies on PC's and had fairly good results with DVD output. I also used iMovie 06 with decent results when shared to iDVD. Now with iMovie 08 to iDVD the DVD looks like you are looking through cellophane. I tried many different settings/options with poor results before deciding I need something different. I want my movies to at least look average when put to DVD.
FCE looks to be a good contender, but reading through the 7 pages of posts I am not sure it is great for using SLR stills in a large number. I am making a movie with possibly 500 stills and am going to "interject" maybe 20-30 short videos shot from multiple cameras...
Reading one of the posts someone recommended Photo to Movie for stills... I am just wondering;
A. Put my Stills together with Photo to Movie. It looks like they have an export option to FCE.
B. Import the movie to FCE and then "cut in" the rest of the videos into the desired spots.
C. Add titles, chapters, lettering, etc.
D. Send to iDVD.
Has anyone had experience doing this, or is there a better option....??? Will FCE do all of this without Photo to Movie...?? AM I SPINNING MY WHEELS....?? lol...
I am going to spend a lot of time putting this together and am looking for a good "outcome". Any help is appreciated... Thanks in advance.. Daryl...

I am becoming very cavalier in my attitude to video (and most other things) and get extremely high quality results with digital stills simply by importing them straight from the camera (5MP JPEGs) and mixing them with video as required.
Whilst you will get very good quality, be aware that it will not be as good as viewing your slides on a computer using something like iPhoto's slideshow facility.
This is because your computer will reproduce every pixel (assuming your monitor is large enough!) whilst anything put into FCE (or any other video editing app) will be reduced to the dimensions of DV which is either 720x480 (NTSC) or 720x576 (PAL).
This is a tremendous reduction from even a small 5MP photo which will be around 2400x1800, so it's quite surprising that results are as good as they are.
You won't be able to go close to the TV screen to view fine detail as there won't be any there!
But viewed from six feet or so the results should be very good.

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as you allready realized: the iApps are made for miniDV/D8, … but you have found the workarounds...
1) … you hear no audio when exporting/converting the mpegs with QT... that's no bug, that's due to the nature of mpeg2... the audio and video are "woven together" (tech term= muxxed)... QT supports this playback-format for ... ehm, playback, but "de-muxxing" is not supported by QT....
2) best format for use in iM/iDVD? my standard reply: DV
(I've read in the meantime, some report using the Apple Lossless Codec, you should find in the export options of SC, delivers better results - beauty lies in eye of... needs a powerful Mac and "eats" 4 -5x more diskspace then DV)....
3) DV; mpeg4 is supported to handle iSight "video" and some digi-stills deliver in this format; again, mpegs are for delivery, not for processing.... I didn't found THE website for explaining all that, you can spend hours on wiki and many, many more sites... for the average user (as me), I wrote (still write...) a short summary, click here >> Codexx; an excellent source for background info is forum's member QuickTimeKirk's "book" (=.pdf delivery), you get for 10$ here >> QTpro explained
4) … that IS a bunch of work, because you tought the old dog new tricks... with my miniDV and still-cam all that is done with a single click and works like charm ...
this board is full of Qs concerning support of DVDcorders/HDcorders... One can just speculate, wether Apple will implement the support of these formats... I strongly guess NOT, … we saw in the past e.g. no support of (S)VCD, another popular format (to its time), but not fullfilling the high standards of SJ....
no, you're not a noob - excellent prepared, precise discription of your problems... I wish, all posts are read like that....
have fun with your kids! it's getting better every day!! (my son now is 6y, in two weeks he starts with school....adventure!!!)

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I don't know what you mean by saying the number of pictures is limited - you can have as many as you want.
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Just go ahead with your project. I don't think you will find any serious problems and if by any chance you do, you can always ask for help in these forums.
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