Hey there
I am in the middle of shooting a short film called ?My First Winter?.
Does anyone know of any good software to take a still photo and scan across it to add movement to the still? The photos are A3 size and so large format. Although I have done some editing, my mane area is camera work. Any help would be great?
Nic Jackson
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I think imovie has a function where you can zoom in on still frames and move them across the screen.
"Anyone who has ever been privileged to direct a film also knows that, although it can be like trying to write 'War and Peace' in a bumper car in an amusement park, when you finally get it right, there are not many joys in life that can equal the feeling." - Stanley Kubrick
"Anyone who has ever been privileged to direct a film also knows that, although it can be like trying to write 'War and Peace' in a bumper car in an amusement park, when you finally get it right, there are not many joys in life that can equal the feeling." - Stanley Kubrick
Anybody know of a windows program for this? I think there might be a filter for Virtualdub to do it but I'm not sure. I was thinking of using flash and then exporting to uncompressed avi. If there is an easier way with windows I would like to know as well.
Thanks
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I would imagine that if you have access to a program like adobe premiere you could just use key frames in the effects panel that would allow you to make the image slide across the screen at a consistent rate.
Black Armadillo is right. Priemere does this easily, you just have to use the motion controls in the effects panel. Just a heads up, Premiere 6.5 and below have problems with motion but they fixed it with Pro and beyond.
--QD Jones
--QD Jones
Just to clarify, Premiere is a piece of crap. Yeah you can get it done that way, but will it look nice. Probably not. Does it have Easy In or Easy Out, which makes your movement fluid? Adobe After Effects is the best for this. Flash will also do a good job also. I've actually found that rendering out of Flash works pretty good, but can't replace After Effects.
As Editors go, you should look into Apple's Final Cut Pro. I won't go into a Mac vs PC arguement, but OSX is solid. 18 hours or heavy editing and rendering and no crashes. No viruses. And FCP is cheaper then Avid and has way better functionality then Premiere.
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Saying that Premiere is a piece of crap is your opinion nothing more. Everyone has there own opinion on the matter.
My personal opinion is that Premiere does a great job with pictures, if you have Premiere Pro. I will agree that 6.5 and earlier had trouble with motion.
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PC vs Mac, Premiere vs After Effects...... tut tut at the end of the day we all have to work with what we have got - if your a mac user then the Mac does have some really good software, if your PC based then After Effects and Premiere both complement each other.
Having worked on both Macs and PCs developing films both have advantages and disadvantages. If you have the money, have one of each and make sure they are reasonably high spec'd.
With regards to the original topic - After effects makes the motion very smooth.
