#FINAL CUT PRO 7 SLIDESHOW MOVIE#
#FINAL CUT PRO 7 SLIDESHOW PRO#
#FINAL CUT PRO 7 SLIDESHOW MAC#

Now go back to the list of all the pictures in the Browser. Change the duration of the transition to the length you would like (many slideshows use a standard cross dissolveвЂ¦but choose what you think works best).ДҐ. When you find the transition you would like to use, in the Browser double click the duration time of that effect. To do this go to the Effects Tab > Video Transitions.Д¤. Choose the transition you would like between each picture. You will see in the Browser that the duration of each clip is the same as what you set it to in step 1.ДЈ. 2 or 3 seconds should do the trick for most slideshows.Дў.

#FINAL CUT PRO 7 SLIDESHOW PRO#

Before importing still pictures into Final Cut change the still/freeze duration to the length of time you would like each picture to appear (this can be changed by clicking Final Cut Pro in the menu bar> User Preferences> Editing Tab> Still/Freeze Duration. From here you can tweak itвЂ¦adding motion, graphic elements, etc.ДЎ. Making a slideshow in Final Cut Pro may take a little more time, but you can customize it to your hearts content.Д«ecause creating slideshows can be a tedious job, hereвЂ™s a really quick way to create the basis for a simple slideshow in Final Cut Pro. The interface for creating a slideshow in iMovie is quite user friendly and fastвЂ¦but it gives little in the way of customization and effects.

#FINAL CUT PRO 7 SLIDESHOW MAC#

One way to make a slideshow on a Mac is in iMovie. вЂњOh, youвЂ™re a video editorвЂ¦thatвЂ™s great because I really need a video made for my churchвЂ¦my cousinвЂ™s bar mitzvahвЂ¦.my daughters wedding.вЂќ And when it happens, one of the biggest requests I get is to make a video slideshow. Sometimes being вЂњthe video editorвЂќ is like being the вЂњfriend with the truckвЂќвЂ¦people start asking favors of you. I appreciate the update.FCP Tutorial: The Down and Dirty Slideshow or вЂњhow to create a slideshow in a minute and a halfвЂќ Larry replies: Thanks, Cal and Sharon, for writing. Still need to bring movies in separately, as you indicated, but this process works for 95% of the powerpoint presentations I get, and is a pretty fast method.

You shouldnвЂ™t have to do any re-sizing of the images in a 4:3 project. All of the slides will be in this folder.

Make a new folder to put them all in, and then move the folder to your projectвЂ™s folder to stay organized.

If there is a вЂњbuildвЂќ on the page, do a screen capture between the вЂњbuildsвЂќ on the page, and add dissolve transitions through Final Cut. Click Shift + Command + 3 on the slide-youвЂ™re doing a screen capture.Wait for a few seconds until the slide transition icon in the bottom corner disappears.The only thing that gets sacrificed with my method is animated transitions. Larry, I import powerpoints all the time into FCP. Just to follow up from your most recent newsletter. As long as the timings are programmed in, I believe they will export and play normally. I think youвЂ™re in error about exporting one Keynote slide frame. IвЂ™m away on vacation, but I saw your newsletter. Any music in the PowerPoint file will not export, youвЂ™ll need to add it again manually.Plan to replace these with the original movies. Generally, audio and video lose sync during export. Embedded movies will probably not export correctly.Transitions should export, however, slides will only output as a single frame, which youвЂ™ll need to lengthen in FCP.Even when presenting on HD, we donвЂ™t have as much resolution as our computer screen. Pay attention to all the design constraints weвЂ™ve always worked with in video.Generally, a size of 1024 x 768, for SD, or 1280 x 720, for HD, works best. Create, or resize, your PowerPoint to be as close to the final video resolution as possible.However, people design for PowerPoint differently than for video, and youвЂ™ll have problems if you donвЂ™t take a few extra points into consideration:

#FINAL CUT PRO 7 SLIDESHOW MOVIE#

Whether you use PowerPoint or Keynote, you can bring that info into FCP by exporting it as a QuickTime movie, then import that QuickTime movie into Final Cut. ]Д¬ould you please tell me whether it is possible to add a PowerPoint presentation into a FCP sequence? [ This article was first published in the June, 2009, issue of

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