I am working on a documentary about a photo project and for the intro I made sort of a collage with some of the pictures.
I'm a little new to this so how I set it up was I put each picture on a different layer and then arranged them all to fit. Right now, there are 20 layers including a title card.
Re: Photo collage by david bogie on Nov 3, 2009 at 10:31:10 pm
I'd work in Motion but you seem to be off to a good start.
Your photos are way huge, about 10,000 times larger than they need to be and this will cause your system to bog down. You only need your pictures to be about 1k max on either side. I'd batch them in Photoshop first.
If you don't need to move them around or add more effects there's no reason to do this in FCP at all. Scale the images, apply your vignettes, and build the still in Photoshop as a single image.
Re: Photo collage by Mark Suszko on Nov 3, 2009 at 10:40:39 pm
He's right about first preparing them in photoshop, if you don't know about how to do batch actions, read about it in the manual, it will heavily automate your job and shorten it from days to minutes in some cases.
Re: Photo collage by Louis Stevenson on Nov 3, 2009 at 10:46:42 pm
Actually I had each image transition in separately. Could I still use photoshop and divide it by layers?
and then how big should the photoshop page be for 16.9?
Re: Photo collage by david bogie on Nov 4, 2009 at 4:16:29 pm
[Louis Stevenson]"Actually I had each image transition in separately. "
Yes, well, that's a totally different topic and workflow and has its own complications. I'm surprised you go this far without posting "Mac sluggish with simple animation!!!"
I'd still work in Motion after downscaling the images.
If you're not comfortable working in Motion, and who is?, you will be amazed at how much faster motion effects edits and previews are once you've reduced the size of your images.
