Resizing stills

Does anyone know how to resize multiple still images at once, as opposed to image by image? I'm resizing for use in Final Cut Pro and have about 40 images I need to slug into my timeline.
Also, I would like to have it renamed. All into photoshop.

This is not done in photoshop, but in automator. Here is a webpage with instructions on how to do it, it's the last tip.

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Use the Crop tool.
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Resize still images in Photoshop?

Hi there
So I'm using jpegs (say 4000 x 4000 ish) in a DVC Pro HD sequenece. Would you recommend re-sizing in Photoshop beforehand, or is it fine to let Final Cut do the resizing?
Im using Final Cut 7.
Appreciate any recommendations,
Richard

yes, do resize in PS. If you have no pans or zooms you can make them your sequecnce dimensions. For mild pan and zoom twice your seq dimensions should do. I believe FC has a max size for stills of 4000x4000 but I wouldn't recomend using anything that big for both performance and image quality reasons.

Resizing still images

Just curious, if I import lots of still images into FCP without resizing them in Photoshop, is this a bad thing? Is there any visual advantage to cropping or resizing them in Photoshop rather than just resizing in FCP?
Thanks.

>1. Why is the maximum set at 1920 x 1080? Aren't there resolutions larger than this? Like footage from the 4k cameras?
This is why 4K is the limit in FCP...because Red is 4K.
But films are 2K...which is very close to 1920x1080. VERY close. Digital films projected in theatres...2K. Films shot on RED and projected...2K. No theatres have 4K projectors...cost prohibitive.

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how to resize psd stills to mach prevailing video frame size -1280x720 ?

Photo Scaling for Video http://forums.adobe.com/thread/450798

Resize stills in Photoshop or FCE?

I have quite a few stills in Photoshop (CS2) which I want to use in FCE. They are large (4600 x 2900 pixels) files. What seems to me to make sense is to open a new Photoshop file using the NTSC DV 720x480 preset (which has the 0.9 pixel aspect ratio), paste a scaled down copy of the image into this file, flatten it, save it, and then bring that into FCE. Of course, I have to do that again for each still. I seem to remember reading somewhere, though, that there are effects that are possible in FCE if you import larger files. Is this true? If so what does it refer to? If there were some advantage to bringing in stills bigger than 720x480, how big should/could they be? Surely, you couldn't have say, a hundred 35MB images you were trying to work with all at once.

The only real advantage to having larger stills in FCE is if you want to apply motion, zoom in on them etc
Even so, I usually double the 720x480 video standard size to do this
Stills don't need to be the size you have and depending on your puter, could really bog things down.
I am not a true Photoshop expert but I know you are able to create a macro in Photoshop that will allow you to do batch re-sizing

Large Still Images into PE - One Workflow

Everyone wants the highest quality that they can obtain when doing their videos. It’s natural to want the best. Well, when dealing with still images, bigger is not necessarily better, for two reasons. First, overly large still images can really tax a system and second, one is limited to the frame size of the video, so these have to be resized somewhere - this resizing can be in the NLE (Non Linear Editor) program, or in an image processing program like PS (Photoshop), which does a better job anyway. Doing this in PS, or PSE, will result in better resized images, and they are easier for the NLE to work with. Quality is as high as your Project’s Preset will allow, and you are more efficient, with fewer crashes, slowdowns and hangs. It is a win-win situation.
Here is my normal workflow when dealing with still images. This workflow is for NTSC 4:3 720x480 with a PAR (Pixel Aspect Ratio) of 0.9. If your Project’s Presets are different, use those specs to resize to.
Since I shoot my still images in RAW, I Copy my files from the CF card to my system and catalog these images by location, subject and date (if necessary). I’ll do a quick conversion and Save_As Adobe DNG for backup. I then process these RAW images in PS with the ARC (Adobe Raw Converter), correcting them and then doing a Save_As PSD into a sub-folder. All of this is in my still photo library.
Normally, I will edit these PSD’s to find the images that I wish to use in a Video Project, and will Copy the selected images to another folder. You’ll see that I work with a lot of Copies, so my original files are always untouched and stored elsewhere. This guards against anything happening to them.
At this point, I’ll decide how I wish to use these selected images in my Video Project. Let’s just say that they are all horizontal images, and are still full-size from my camera. As stated, my Video Projects are DV-NTSC 4:3 720x480 PAR 0.9. [Remember, your Video Project may vary, so you will need to plug in the dimensions for YOUR Video Project in that case.] I also will have done my Cropping on each image individually, to get them to 4:3 Aspect Ratio. I do this my eye and by hand, rather than via an Action, because I want full aesthetic control.
In PS, I have a set of Actions for Video. An Action is like a Script, but less powerful and less involved in the writing. As I have already done all of my image enhancements and additional processing before I did my Copy to the selected folder, I only have to worry about my Action resizing these selected images for use in my Video Project. My Action here is to resize to 720x480 with a PAR of 0.9, and I normally use the Action that does this with a particular resizing algorithm, Bicubic-Smoother (though I also use Bicubic-Sharper on occasion).
For the next step, I go to my folder structure (remember, this folder contains copies of my selected still images in PSD format), and create a new sub-folder "[Project Name]_720x480." Back in PS, I choose File>Automate>Batch. Here I set my Source Folder, my Destination folder and the Action to perform. In my case, it’ll be the Destination Folder, that I just created, [Project Name]_720x480, and my Action will be my NTSC 4:3 720x480 Smooth. I check to have the Open command by-passed, because I do not need to see this take place on my monitor. When I hit OK, PS grabs all files in my Source Folder, runs the commands of my Action and does a Save_As for all files into my Destination Folder. I can process hundreds of large images down to a great 720x480 PAR 0.9 via Bicubic-Smoother interpolation, in moments. Now, I’m ready to go. Last, I Copy my Destination Folder to my Video Project’s folder hierarchy (usually on another HDD), and then Import these processed stills into my NLE.
What if I need to pan on one, or more of these images, while they are zoomed out completely? I don’t have enough pixels in my horizontal dimension to do this. I am just filling the frame with my still. Well, if I find that there are such images, I go back to my folder with the full sized images in my still images library, and select the ones that need to be larger. I run another Action on these, but it’s one that resizes to something larger than 720x480, say 1000x750. Now, I have another Destination Folder with the name [File Name]_1000x750. I’ll Copy this over to my Video Project, and Import these into the NLE. Here, I can go to Project Panel and remove the 720x480 versions if I so choose, but since a Premiere Project file (.PRPROJ or .PREL) is only an XML database, I may just leave them. It does not contain any media files, just links to where they are on the system and to what operations are performed on them.
By doing my resizing in PS, rather than in Premiere, I have accomplished two things:
1.) I have better quality resized images, using the algorithms in PS, plus have a choice of several interpolation methods to work with.
2.) I have lessened the processing load on my NLE and on my system, while doing the editing
I get higher quality and lower resource overhead - hence my reference to "win-win."
Now, back to my aesthetic control. I do not do any automatic zooming or panning. If one allows the NLE to do this, then they will want to probably process all of their images to 1000x750 (remember, this is for an NTSC 4:3 Project, so you will need to calculate what YOUR Project will require).
The two programs that I use are Photoshop and Premiere Pro, but Photoshop Elements can do the same things, though the exact commands might be different. Premiere Elements will handle the resized still images, just like Premiere Pro and the only difference will be the terminology used when one wishes to Import the still images.
I also keep all of my images in .PSD (the native format of PS), and do not convert to JPEG, or other. If one’s camera shoots only JPEG, I suggest writing the Action to do the Save_As to .PSD, as another JPEG compression will cost one quality. Yes, the JPEG’s will be smaller, but remember we are looking for the ultimate quality, so larger file sizes are just part of that equation.
One does not have to deal with all of the Copies, as I do. However, this allows me to go back to the originals, or to the processed full-sized .PSD’s at any step along the way. There is only one thing worse than not being able to go back to an intermediate version with full Layers and Adjustment Layers, plus any Alpha Channels, and that is finding out that you’ve lost your original RAW and DNG backups! That’s why I do a lot of Save_As and also work from Copies all along the way.
Hunt

Your workflow looks good. I do similar, but use PS, in lieu of LightRoom. I also do DNG's for my archives.
Provided that one chooses a JPEG compression algorithm setting that does not do too much compression, I doubt that anyone, but the most very critical, could tell the difference in Video. Most of my tests on PSD vs JPEG have been for print. There, one can more easily detect the differences. Video "hides" some of that.
To date, I have not had a Project where the Asset size differences between equally sized PSD's vs JPEG's caused any slowdown, or problem. There could be a resources savings with the smaller JPEG files, but there is a tiny bit of overhead dealing with the JPEG compression. I have never tested this, so can only guess that the smaller Asset size of the JPEG would trump that overhead - just a guess on my part.
For me, keeping the images in PSD does save a tiny bit of work in my Action (basically one less operation to perform), but I doubt that one could measure that time difference, even over the automation of hundreds of images. Besides, it's only one additional line in the Action. My feelings on JPEG vs PSD is firmly based in my print experience, and I am probably being too critical with images going to video. When I move up to HD and BD authoring, I need to apply a very critical eye, to see if I can tell the differences on an HD TV. So long as one does not apply too much JPEG compression, the differences should be very slight, at the worst, and maybe not even noticed, at best.
I do minimize the impact of many files on my Project by sizing to what I need. If I will not be doing any pans on zoomed-out images, I size to my Project. For pans on zoomed-out images, I calculate just what I will need for those pans, and might end up with several groups of sizes, to accommodate each. Still, the vast majority will be sized to exactly what I need for the Project - very few extra pixels.
In my case, and yours too, I have my RAW, my DNG, my working Layered PSD's, and then my sized output. I always keep all working PSD's, as I might change my mind, or my client might change theirs, and I do not want to have to go back and redo work, if I still have those working files. I also do as little destructive editing, as I can, using Dupe Layers, and Adjustment Layers, whenever possible. If I can, I never Flatten, or Merge Layers, so I can make any/all changes at any time, and only have to do the resizing via the same Actions. That is basically a "one-button" solution, once I have made the changes required.
Good luck,
Hunt

Need Help! Encore/PRPro 5.5 Slideshows w/ stills & videos: Best workflow/settings?

Warning! Rookie here--I apologize ahead of time for the forthcoming dumb questions!
Gear: 4 month old iMac, 12GB RAM, Lion. CS5.5 Master Collection.
First, my goals:
*Take 4-500 large DSLR stills (shot in 24MB RAW and JPEGs from 6-17 or so MBs with some Sony panorama shots sprinkled in) and 20 AVCHD/Sony HD videos (only 10 to 30 seconds long and labeled as ".MTS" files) and create a slideshow with the videos interspersed among the stills.
*No audio, manual advance.
*Create high quality file from Blu-Ray setting for playback over Apple TV from iMac or iPad 3 to LED HDTV (1920 x 1080, I believe).
I've watched Lynda.com's tutorials regarding Encore CS.5 the past few days (watched the Premiere Pro course a while back for just a very short video DVD and I did OK--but no stills/no slideshow), but I'm quite confused and frustrated. For example, I tried to import the stills as assets and got an error message saying I didn't have the right software, leading to having to hit "return" for a few hundred error messages!
After lots of google searches and searching this forum, I surmised my files sizes are too large. OK, but that's about as far as I got for this stage. Then I saw Bill Hunt's article on workflow and about converting all stills to .psd files, so that may be next...?
But I would really like somebody to walk me through things that are still confusing given I am not familiar with all the terminology and things such as pixel/frame sizes etc.
Given my goals, what would be the best workflow/course of action? I don't need every detail given that I have the Lynda.com tutorials, e.g., I have some menus set up from a background image with text that I made in Photoshop and I get the linking procedure for creating buttons that work once the image is a item in Encore.
The main questions, I guess are:
1. What should I do with with my stills to get them into Encore? Should I do as Bill says and make them .psd files? How do I then get Encore to accept them as assets? I'm really confused about the sizes to use during conversion--4:3 vs. 16:9 and/or 720 vs. 480 vs. HD sizes (1000 x 750?!). I gather this should be done in Photoshop, but not clear how, exactly. (My head's about to explode reading up on file types, sizes, pixels, for the slideshows with stills and videos blah, blah, blah....).
2. How do I get my short videos into Encore? Do I create a timeline in Premiere Pro first? Should I create a timeline or sequence with both stills and videos in Premiere Pro and use the import sequence feature into Encore?
3. Where are the stills and videos best interspersed--Encore or PRPro?
4. Given Encore will only create slideshows of 99 stills, once I create multiple slideshows in the project panel, am I correct that I link to the second, third, etc. slideshows with "end actions" and the viewer will see a seamless transition? I plan on using some chapters for different sections of a 10 day vacation, so will there be any conflict with the multiple slideshow transitions?
Thanks so much for your help! This trip was a dream come true as I hadn't had a vacation in 12 years and I was finally able to take my now teenage boys on a proper wilderness adventure a few weeks ago! I would really like to be able to show everyone a nice slideshow and eventually give the boys a Blue-ray disc they will always have as a keepsake etc. In other words, lots of emotion wrapped up in this one.....thanks again!

1. Your images are square pixels, Blu-ray (BD) is square pixels, keep your images square pixels when you resize them. That means a Pixel Aspect Ratio (PAR) of 1.0. Fortunately, PS defaults to square pixels. As for the frame size, the video will be the limiting factor if you want it interspersed with the stills. Determine the frame size and frame rate of the video that was shot and use that as the basis for resizing your stills. If you don't plan on doing any panning/zooming, then you resize your stills to match the video frame size (1920x1080 or 1280x720 are the likely choices). If you plan on mild panning/zooming, then increase the size of the resized stills by roughly 30% in both dimensions. More dramatic panning/zooming will require a larger increase in frame size; just don't go over 4000 pixels in either dimension. And remember that video work makes any DPI or PPI value irrelevant. The video frame size is exactly what it is, in pixels. No more, no less.
2. and 3. If you want video mixed in with stills, then you'll have to put them all together in a Premiere Pro timeline before sending them to Encore. Unfortunately, that makes the manual advance feature you want problematic. It can be done, sort of, but it probably won't work the way you expect.
4. If you use Pr to create your stills/video timeline, there is no 99 slide limit. Make the Pr timeline seamless and it will remain seamless in En. If you do a slideshow in En, then moving from one 99-still slideshow to another will not be seamless.
NB: the key to your project will be planning. Take and old-fashioned pencil and paper and layout how you want the audience to view the finished BD. Do you want just the main program? Do you want quick and dirty slideshows of just still images that they can access by menu? And so on. You can make *almost* any navigation scenario work in En, but you need to know beforehand how you want the audience to get from here to there and back again.
Jeff

Resize photos for Adobe Premiere CS6.

Do you have to resize still photos in PhotoShop or can you do it in Adobe Premiere CS6?
And, what is the ideal size for still photographs?

Photoshop... and read these
Photo Scaling for Video http://forums.adobe.com/thread/450798
-Too Large May = Crash http://forums.adobe.com/thread/879967
-And another crash report http://forums.adobe.com/thread/973935

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Hi. I'm preparing a 15' video (dvNTSC standard) to be burned to a DVD and played on tv monitors at an awards ceremony for my company. The first 6" or so will be an animated sequence which I have created on an older mac running OS 9.22, using Carrara Studio 3. What is considered the best format for importing animation into FCE 3.5 that will give the highest image quality? I've rendered the animation @ 640 x 480px as a QuickTime Movie using photo-jpeg compression (best quality) and this doesn't look bad but I thought I would get better results generating a Pict Sequence w/ no compression @ 720 x 534px and batch processing the stills in Photoshop adjusting the height to 480px so that the images will retain their correct proportions when imported into FCE. Is there another approach I could take? There is a dvNTSC and animation codec in Carrara that I've tried but the imported animation plays in FCE as black frames. Thanks for any suggestions.
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PICT sequence would be the best quality until it's compressed in FCE ... Final Cut uses a slightly different scaling algorithm for resizing still image to adjust for pixel aspect ratio ... 720x540 for DV material, rather than 534.
Tom,
Thanks for your reply. I'll go w/ a PICT sequence for my exported animation. That's very interesting about the 720x540 ratio. I did get the the 720x534 ratio from a book on FCE I was reading and was wondering if there was any basis for the verticle pixel dimension of 534 the author quoted.

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Hi all, hoping you can give me some pointers.
I'm trying to implement Captivate scalable html5 simulations in a proprietary LMS that requires that I place it in an iFrame. It works, but the scaling is not working properly. Immediately upon loading, the Captivate content is too large for my frame, although it does resize (still too large) when I scale the page.
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But I just ran into this same issue.
Require using HTML5 with Captivate inside of an iFrame.
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Pixilation of DVD menu

Hi Guys.
I’m having problems with the quality of my menu in encore. The original file was designed at 3000x2400 pixels and at 300 DPI. Once I import it into encore and a menu and render it out. It loses all its quality and becomes heavily distorted. Is there a quality setting within encore to adjust the final rendered output of the DVD menu?

As Jon points out, I find the scaling algorithms in any Adobe program, other than Photoshop, to be lacking. This is a case, where "bigger is NOT better." This ARTICLE, while addressing resizing still images for PrPro/PrE, applies to Encore, as well. It will give you tips on Batch re-sizing, but with one Menu, this is not really an issue, though might help in the future, should one have many stills, that need to be resized. I am a big fan of doing all of my image sizing, Menu creation, etc., in PS to exactly what I will need in my NLE, or my authoring application.
Hope that something here helps.
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Aperture and Final Cut Pro X ?

I am going to move from FCE to FCP X. I am looking for input on how to handle this.
I suppose I will continue to bring the stills into Aperture. With FCE if I needed to use a still from Aperture I did an version export from Aperture and resized the picture to 1920 x 1080. That export file is stored on the media scratch drive and then a imported to the project (actually a pointer to the file) to be used.
With the new FCP X I am not sure if I will need to export or can I somehow just import it from the Aperure Libray and if I do should I resize the still.
Does anyone on this forum have any experience with this. Thanks for any insight.

Terence,
Thank you for the reply. I hope to get a chance to work a bit with FCP X tomorrow and will look for my Aperture pictures in the media browser.
" If you use the Media Browser in FCP X then you will get your Aperture previews. The size for those are set in the Aperture Preferences. "
Are you saying that the size of the stills in FCP X would be whatever my preview in Aperture is set for ? I know that that is what resolution I would get for a slide show done in Aperture, so I guess having that carry over to FCP would not be too surprising.
Most if not all of my projects in Final Cut are 1920 x 1080. In FCE stills form a 5 MP or a 7 MP camera were fine when imported as actual size, but stills from my 21 MP camera had issues if I did not resize them first. I guess FCE did was not the best software to resize stills. Aperture did a much better job at resizing and the stills were fine in FCE.
I typically have done some panning and zooming on my stills ( a small amount scaling and slow movement with motion keying ). Kind of a Ken Burns effect.

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I have been trying to save my Final Cut Express project into QuickTime Movie so I can put it on a DVD- it gets 30% (about 12 minutes) through the Writing Audio and Video portion when a window pops up that says General Error. I don't know if this is a computer error, FCE error, QT error or what. I tried a bunch of obvious easy fixes that didn't work. It has done it 4 or 5 times over a few days. Suggestions?

victoria Hamlin wrote:
...I do have still pics- what is a size that I can use? Will fce change the size or do I have to use another application?...
Hi(Bonjour)!
FCE will not resize stills.
So using a large one (say 4000 X 2600 pixels, common for 12 meg still camera) involves a lot of calculation for FCE to fit the size of timeline. If you don't need a such size for some Ken Burn stuff or pan or zooming, stay with smaller size like 720x480 (the size of DV NTSC format) or 1920X1440 for HD.
You can use Photoshop or even preview applications do resize your stills.
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System Requirements Question

I am using Elements 7 for my video editing, and am thinking of upgrading my camcorder to HD to take advantage of Prel7's HD capability.
Question is, do I need to upgrade my computer too.
Currently, my desktop CPU has a dual core Pentium 2.8GB processor with 2GB RAM, running under Windows XP.
The suggested system requirements by Adobe for HD transfer and editing with Prel7 call for a 3GB processor speed and 2GB RAM.
I seem to have enough RAM, but can anyone tell me if the dual-core 2.8's will be enough to handle HD transfers and editing?
Thanks everyone.
Mike

Hunt - you said I could burn the project to a blu ray folder "for later" - but I can't see that option in the "Share" menu. It doesn't give me an option to burn to a folder under Blu Ray, unlike under the DVD option. Am I missing that?
Mike,
Unfortunately, I may have mispoken, regarding the capabilities of PrE to Burn to Folder for BD. I do not use PrE for my authoring, preferring to use Adobe Encore. I do seem to remember comments that PrE 7 cannot Burn to Folder for BD. I apologize for that. OTOH, one can Export from PrE and use a more powerful authoring program for the DVD/BD production. Adobe Encore is no longer available as a stand-alone, and is only bundled with CS3 & CS4 PrPro. However, Sony's DVD Architect gets some high marks for authoring. Steve Grisetti, MOD here and on Muvipix, has written a book about using DVD Architect. He would know of its capabilities regarding the ability to Burn to Folder for BD. As I only use Encore, I do not test a lot of other software, regardless of how good these might be.
Sorry that I confused Encore with PrE7. My bad.
As for the "quality loss" when down-rezing your HD material to SD - there are three things to think about:
1.) just the loss in resolution going to the smaller sized Project, i.e. from HD down to DVD-Video (big difference)
2.) the methods that Adobe NLE's use to down-rez - this is what Dan Isaac's article is all about *
3.) one's player's abilities and methods to then up-rez SD material to be viewed on an HD TV - can be big differences in the algorithms used by each player and player type.
Good luck, and thanks for both posting your findings and correcting me.
Hunt
* This is not that much different than resizing stills in PS vs letting the NLE do it. There are many of the same types of considerations

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