Short dynamic promo from photos help please

indybones

indybones

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Hi peeps,

Could really do with some advice here please.

I have been asked to do a 2-3 minute promo using only still imagery (photographs).
The client wants it to be energetic and funky.

I am having considerable trouble in making still imagery energetic and funky.

I have experimented with transitions (they mostly look cheesy which isn't good).
I have done the Ken Burns effect (I think that's what its called).
I have experimented with multi paneling and making each photo shrink in size and move to one side of the screen.

Now I'm very stuck and could really do with some suggstions please.

Thank you so much.

Indy
 
PS

Can any one tell me why when I do the Ken Burns effect and zoom in or out of a still image I get the horizontal jagged lines.

I have de interlaced it, applied a flicker filter, and also clicked the motion blur tab, blur 1 samples 1 and I still get the lines????


Thank you so much..

Indy
 
I've just noticed that when I bring JPEGS or PSD'S into final cut the blacks seem to have been crushed and thus the detail gets lost, and a high contrast is produced.

Does any one know why this would be?

I've opened the files in photoshop again and moved the mids up quite a bit, then saved and brought them back into final cut and that way they seem to keep the original detail, strange?

Any help would be very much aprecited.

Thanks
 
indybones said:
PS

Can any one tell me why when I do the Ken Burns effect and zoom in or out of a still image I get the horizontal jagged lines.

I have de interlaced it, applied a flicker filter, and also clicked the motion blur tab, blur 1 samples 1 and I still get the lines????


Thank you so much..

Indy
Click to expand...

I ususually use After Effects for any 'still image' manipulation. I have not been satisfied with the results from Final Cut Express. Don't know what FCP has that's 'more', although some people, I recall, use Motion to do still image manipuation.

In AE you can declare layers to be '3-d', and what that means is that you get to deal with your images as if they were past boards, and move around them or move them in 'three dimensions'. If you look on the side... they will be 'very thin'...

But you may think about that and what FCP or Motion may have to offer.

As for jaggies, more spacial blurring is needed to eliminate jaggies. You have to seelect enough blur to eliminate the jaggies, but not so soften the image as to make it look blurry.

Ken Burns uses (as far as I know), a 35mm Film camera set up on a precision moveable table to get his 'effects'... And with all film processes there are differences between the digital versions and the 'analog' film version... whether it is film grain, or smooth line renditions.
 
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