Moving lines in still frames

In FCP I have imported some high quality digital pics to make a montage. On some of them I use the keyframing to move them around the screen, but they all get funky movement on fine lines or patterns. It's not a de-interlacing problem because I filter it when I export using compressor. The final product on DVD looks like sh*t and I don't know how to fix it! Please help ASAP!

David:
A small Gaussian blur and/or DeFlicker filter can help with such behaviour (I don't think is interlacing related).
Besides that, some information about image sizes (pixels) and timeline settings will help you to get more detailed help from some experts here (not me!)
. . . and do a search, you'll find plenty of threads with good advices to get most of your pictures.
Good luck!
Alberto

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I am using Premiere Elements 1.0 with Windows Vista in XP compatibility mode. I have inserted some still frames which are bitmaps with a black background. When I make a DVD the still frames have a vertical white line along one edge. Even when the bitmaps are resized so that they are bigger than the picture area the white lines remain. Does anybody know how I can get rid of the lines?

Try the flicker remover, right click on the clip and select Field Options/Flicker Removal - or something close to that ;) I hope that existed in version 1, don't remember for sure.
Sounds like your photos might be too large, are they much larger than 1000 x 750?

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Menus (even still menus) are moving video. DVDSP will encode them to MPEG2 for the duration of your menu's loop.
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Still frames not staying still...

I've had this problem on a couple of projects and have manned up to make my first post ever in a forum to try and solve it. Any help would be appreciated.
In Final Cut I made some still frames using the Modify--Make Freeze Frame command, then used a cross dissolve between the two images in the sequence. These are the only still frames in the sequence, the rest is video.
I've exported to Quicktime movie, then brought that movie into DVD Studio Pro, created the project and burned the disc. When watching the DVD all video footage is fine except for--the still images, which flicker like crazy. It is a long dissolve, nearly a minute, but I've had this problem on other projects where the freeze frame lasts only a few seconds and there is no transition used at all.
Any idea why this flickering (ghosting?) would occur with freeze frames? Know how to fix it?
Thanks in advance for any help.

If you have very thin horizontal lines you will get flickering due to the interlacing that TVs do. You can try running your stills through the de-interlace filter or the flicker filter. See which works best for you.

OT: DVD Slide Show - How to do still-frames?

I want to make DVDs containing my photos, so that I can inflict them on
family members and other unfortunates. I have not yet been able to discern
if any of the commercial packages allow for the creation of still-frame
shows - if that is the correct term to describe what I want.
I have commercial DVDs which, as extra content, contain documentary
collections of still images. These groups of images appear to be
single-frame images, and do not automatically advance -- they require the
user to press the Skip button to see the next image.
THAT's what I want to do... have the slideshow require a manual advance, so
that each photo could be viewed for as long (or short!) as desired, before
moving on to the next.
Of course, I would also want to create traditional "moving" slideshows as
well, when desired.
Can anyone advise with regard to this quest?
TIA,
Byron

Byron,
To the best of my knowledge, Photoshop Elements will not allow you to create DVDs of any sort - let alone whether it is possible to manually advance your way through a collection of stills.
PSE's primary purpose is as an image editor and since version 3 as an image organiser. Sure it has a few bells and whistles that allow you to present your images in a vareity of ways, but it is not strong in this area. Maybe that is why there isn't a great response to your orginal post.
I do know that Adobe Premier Elements allows you to create DVDs and once installed, there is an option on the file menu in organiser that allows you to send images direclty to PrEl.
Once again however, I would advise caution. Premier Elements is a cut down video editing suite, so it might be overkill for your needs and have a steeep learning curve!
Many people have mentioned a product called Proshow Gold in here. I don't use it and so cannot comment personally, but plenty of people like it and if I recall correctly, you will be able to create DVDs.
Best of luck
Mark

Have placed video-when previewed there are sometimes heavy black lines around the image. If I place white rectangles in front, the black is hidden in Author, but when I preview the black lines are still there..How to use white rectangles to mask edges?

I have placed video - when previewed there are sometimes heavy black lines around the image.
If I place white rectangles in front, the black is hidden in Author, but when I preview the black lines are still there..
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Here's view in IBA you can see bounding boxes of white rectangles that
form frame to block out black setions..
Here's iBook preview image of same page, NO WHITE FRAME!
WHY?
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Exporting still frames

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help cs4 pro
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format bit map
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hangs
no file created.
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Project in Imovie 9 Only plays back still frames, wont play video

Project in Imovie 9 Only plays back still frames
I can see all the video clips but screen just goes black while going over the video. The video is still in the computer and has not been moved around.
Also if i play the imported video on the "Event" board it plays over it with no information coming back to the computer. Like if the files were offline.
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Hi
*Not knowing the origin to Your problem - General approach when in trouble is as follows.*
• Free space on internal (start-up) hard disk if it is less than 10Gb should rather have 25Gb
• Delete iMovie pref file - or rather start a new user/account - log into this and re-try
iMovie pref file resides.
Mac Hard Disk (start-up HD)/Users/"Your account"/Library/Preferences
Macintosh HD)/Users/"Your account"/Library/Preferences
and is named.
com.apple.iMovie.plist
com.apple.iMovie3.plist
com.apple.iMovie7.plist
com.apple.iMovie8.plist
and find com.apple.iApps.plist - trash this too
While iMovie is NOT RUNNING - move this file/s out to desk-top.
Now restart iMovie.
• Hard disk is untidy. Repair Permissions, Repair Hard disk (Apple Disc Util tool)
• Garageband-fix. Start it, Play a note and Close it. Re-try (Corrects an audio problem that hinders iMovie)
• Screen must be set to Million-colors
• Turn off Mac and disconnect Mains/Power for 20-30 minutes - will at least re-set FW-port
• Third party plug-ins that doesn't work OK (not relevant for iMovie’08 or 09)
• Problems in iPhoto Library can affect iMovie to crash on start-up. Re-build this first then try to re-start iMovie.
This You do by
_ close iPhoto
_ on start up of iPhoto - Keep {cmd and alt-keys down}
_ now select all five options presented
_ WAIT a long long time
• iMovie updated ?
• QuickTime updated ?
• Mac OS version ?
• Program miss-match. iMovie 4 - will not work under Leopard
• Program miss-match. iMovie 5.0.2, up to Mac OS X.4.11 AND QuickTime 7.4.1 - is OK
• Program miss-match. iMovie 6.0.3 or 6.0.4, Mac OS X.4.11 AND QuickTime 7.4.1 - is OK (will work under Leopard and Snow-Leopard)
• Program miss-match. iMovie’08 v. 7.1.4, Mac OS X.4.11 AND QuickTime 7.5.5 - is OK (will work under Leopard and Snow-Leopard)
• Program miss-match. iMovie’09 v. 8.0.6, Mac OS X.5.8 AND QuickTime 7.6.4 - is OK (will work under Leopard and Snow-Leopard)
From LKN 1935. (in this case = iMovie HD (5), I tried it all, but nothing worked.
Your answer (above) has been helpfull insofar as all the different trials led to the conclusion that
there was something wrong with my iMovie software. I therefore threw everything away and reinstalled
iMovie from the HD. After that the exportation of DV videos (there has not been any problem with HDV videos)
to my Sony camcorders worked properly as it did before.
Lennart Thelander
I run "Cache Out X", clear out all caches and restarts the Mac.
Yours Bengt W

Problems with still frames blurring in Final Cut Express....

I have had problems with still frames blurring. I've discovered it's related to the green line above the time line on the sequence bar. I can't find the name of the bar but it's red if you need rendering. There are green lines and when the scrubber hits the line the frame goes blurry.
I'm guessing it's related to another previous attempt at adding motion to the still. My question, I think, is how to eliminate the green lines to the regular blue?
jb

If there are any colored bars above your video other than the normal grey/light blue then you need to render the sequence out by hitting Option-R.

Best Resolution Still Frame Export

Greetings! So far, it seems based on my findings that the still frame export depends entirely on whatever the resolution/frame size of my composition initially is. I had created a motion graphics piece in After Effects with the dimensions of 864 x 480 because it was only ever going to be used for web based viewing and now someone else wants essentially letter sized 300 dpi images for print. From everything I can find, it basically renders all still frames (I tried tif and psd) at 72 dpi at whatever the video's dimensions are meaning I would need to make mine about 500% bigger. I know there are photoshop plug-ins such as Genuine Fractals but I would like to see there is a way to do it straight from AE.

Actually the video and web world doesn't have a dpi or more accurately ppi (pixels per inch because dots refer to line screens in the offset printing industry). There is no size tag in a gif file or in a video file that defines PPI so image editing apps assume 72, which used to be the resolution of the average computer monitor in pixels per inch. After effects does not add a PPI tag to the image headers so image editing apps (Photoshop for example) assume 72 PPI.
Modern displays have a much higher pixel density so the number 72 is basically meaningless. IOW if an image is 720 pxels wide and you're viewing it at 100% it is no longer 10 inches wide on the computer screen, but it will still be 10 inches wide when you send it to a printer. The only time PPI means anything is when you send the image to a device that will print it.
Now that your thoroughly confused let me throw another wrench into the gearbox. Resolution has nothing to do with PPI or DPI. High resolution images have a lot of information (pixels), low resolution images have a low number of pixels. You can set the PPI of a 100 pixel X 100 pixel jpg to 9999PPI, but it will still only contain 1000 pixels. You can set the "resolution" of a 30,000 X 30,000 pixel image to 1PPI and it will still be high resolution because it contains a bunch of pixels. Nine hundred million to be exact.
That said, if you originally have a composition that is small and you need to output something that is bigger then the first thing to do is figure out what is the minimum resolution required to print the image at the quality you desire. If you need a final image that is 11 inches wide to be printed by an offset press then you probably need 11 X 240 or a composition that is 2640 pixels wide. Providing the composition only contains vector objects (shapes, masks, type, or illustrator files) you can resize the composition using the Resize Comp script that comes with AE. You'll find it under File>Scripts>Sample Scripts.
You may also be able to nest your original composition in a larger composition, collapse transformations, then scale it up. If the original composition contains low resolution images or video you will not have as much success scaling things up.
One last thing, lots of folks think that 300 PPI is the minimum for printing. That's not so. The optimum resolution for printing is determined by the type of printer, the viewing distance, the material. Those great big full color banners you see at the mall are probably printed at 50 or 72 or maybe even 90 PPI,
40" posters typically look great at 150 PPI, while glossy waterless offset business cards may require 600ppi for the type to be clean.
I hope this helps.

Zooming over series of still frames

Okay, so I have a bunch of still frames in my timeline, lined up sequentially, all lasting around 4 frames each. So they're moving pretty fast. However, I want to slowly zoom in on ALL of the still frames AS A WHOLE, if that makes any sense.
I don't want to zoom in on each individual still frame, but start on the very first still and slowly push in on all of the frames down to the last picture. (Simply, the zoom is slowly pushing in, while the pictures whiz by.)
I selected all of the stills and tried to use the Motion and Keyframes like I would an ordinary still frame, but apparently it doesn't work when you group them together.
Thanks in advance.

Hi:
Create a new sequence and nest (drag and drop) the original into this new one. Now you can apply the zoom effect to the whole sequence as a unit.
You can learn more about nesting with this tutorial: Basics of Nesting in FCP.
Hope that helps !
Alberto

Top and bottom moving lines on histogram

Hello,
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Thanks.
Fred

You can't crop off the top and bottom of your video and change its frame size.
However, depending on what type of camcorder your video came from, you should be able to use a 16:9 project settings for your Premiere Elements project and get a 16:9 video output with no letterboxing.
What type of camcorder did your original video come from?
What project settings are you using in Premiere Elements?
My free Basic Training with Premiere Elements tutorials at Muvipix.com show you how to select the correct project settings for most major video formats.

Problem Previewing HD Project on NTSC Monitor - Only Still Frames...

Hello all.
I have a calibrated NTSC That i purchased for accurate monitoring of my projects.
I thought I tested on a HD project, but for some reason, now that I'm working on a major project it's not working properly.
When I'm editing, it will display still frames but not video. Before anyone suggests it, i have triple checked that the External monitor setting in the view menu is on All Frames.
Any suggestions?
-aj

But it won't for HD. For HD you need an HD capture card and HD monitor.
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I'm trying to export a still from a project I'm working on so I can add some things to it in photoshop before importing it back in to the imovie project.
It's from the end of a clip I have. I know I could just use grab and take a screen capture but the quality would be awful.
Imovie HD has this feature, "Create Still Frame" and when I google this problem all the answers tell me to use that.
HOWEVER: When I do use Create Still Frame, instead of giving me a JPG I can use or another image format, it creates a short 5 second .mov clip of the still. If I wanted it in movie format I'd just use the original clip, what I need is an image format!
There doesn't seem to be an option anywhere to change what type of still frame format it uses. There must be a way to do this however, all the answers I've found say it should be JPG and I should be able to locate it then in the project package - what am I doing wrong?

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Open MPEG Streamclip.
In iMovie, select the clip you need. Then, right-click/Reveal in Finder.
Drag this clip into MPEG Streamclip
In MPEG Streamclip, move the playhead to the frame you want.
In MPEG Streamclip, click FILE/EXPORT FRAME.
Choose JPEG, TIFF, or PNG and give it a name.

Problem with rendering still frame capture in FCP7

I'm a hack, so let's keep that in mind as I ask this question....but I *did* try to look through the forum for a similar issue before I created this post.
My situation: I am pulling some HD video from a Canon Vixia into FCP and basically just piecing it together with some minor editing to match music beats, etc. for some local sports leagues. Generally I find no issues with FCP, although I've only been dabbling with it for a few months.
My problem: My latest creation here: http://anothermotherproductions.smugmug.com/Movies/2011-Lacrosse-sample-movie/17 693649_L5rr8X does something annoying. I pulled a still frame from the video clip to let it hang there for a few seconds. See the 1:01 mark. The still frame looks clear in FCP, but when exported (and I've tried a few different formats, like h.264, pro-res, and "sharing" it for iPod) the image is ugly - looks like a motion blur from an old TV or something.
I've checked that the last frame of the video clip is the frame BEFORE the still frame, so walking step by step through the sequence reveals a normal sequence of motion, with the final frame "hanging" there for a while because its the still frame.
Make sense?
Anyone have constructive input?
Thanks.

Thank you so much - that helped tremendously. Image looks great now, AND I learned something.

Moving lines in still frames

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