FCP for this project?

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powerdog

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Due to time/budget constraints, a project that was supposed to be a 12 min. video is now a 6 minute Ken Burns slide show-type video. Music, dissolves, pans, etc -- all still images. I've done a fair amount of that in FCP, but I'm wondering if a dedicated program (like Fotomagico) would be more efficient.

Any opinions?

The catch is, the resulting SS must not only play from a DVD, it must be easy to incorporate (whole or parts) into a future FCP video project. For this reason alone, I'm thinking I should stick with FCP. But the time is so short, I need fast turnaround, too.
 
Being that the long term idea is to keep it in FCP, I would definitely stay that route right now. If you swap out and then need it in FCP later, you'll either have to go back and rebuild it in FCP or do some kind of complicated rip and import into FCP, either way, lots of time and headaches. I'd just put in some more time now and get it done in FCP, at least that way you're secure to have it available always and right away for FCP. Going to another application now, but knowing its going to need to come back to FCP, sounds like a recipe for a headache I think. Good luck.

cheers.
 
That's been my gut feeling, although the app I've been thinking of will save the whole thing as a QT file...which I could cut into pieces, but I would be stuck with the transitions, sound, etc I'd applied this time around.
 
That's always the problem if you only have the consolidated QT file. Just think for yourself, if a client walked in with a Quicktime File of his finished movie and said, can you cut me a trailer from this, with all the video, transitions, and audio married together? If you're the one going to be possibly having to go back to it later on, I'd deal with the smaller headache now, rather than the bigger one later on.

cheers.
 
My only question in that scenario would be: will I lose more hours of sleep worrying about this or actually doing the work?

Brrrr!!
 
VaricamLife said:
That's always the problem if you only have the consolidated QT file. Just think for yourself, if a client walked in with a Quicktime File of his finished movie and said, can you cut me a trailer from this, with all the video, transitions, and audio married together? If you're the one going to be possibly having to go back to it later on, I'd deal with the smaller headache now, rather than the bigger one later on.

cheers.
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i've cut major motion picture trailers for a living and believe it or not, a little more than half of all trailers are cut directly from the feature. although it's usually provided with splits (DIA, FX, MX on separate channels). the rest are cut straight from dailies.
 
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