Images created in Photoshop, or still photos can be saved at a variety of quality settings or resolutions. Here are the very basics of importing an image created or edited in Photoshop into Final Cut Pro. USE RGB COLOR SCALE!! Final Cut Pro does not recognize the CMYK color scale, and it won’t allow you to import the image into your project. This can be adjusted in Photoshop under “Image->Mode->RGB.”

What resolution should I use?
In Photoshop, select “File->New.” There are several templates available for you. Select “NTSC DV 720×480 (with guides).” This is the NTSC standard for video in North America (If editing in PAL, select PAL DV settings).

When I zoom to my image, it becomes pixilated.
If you plan on zooming into your Photoshop image, you will want to create your image at a higher resolution than 72dpi. Final Cut Pro will adjust the image as you zoom into an image allowing a better looking picture because you will have more pixels in which to work. However, the larger you make the image, the slower the program will run because it has to adjust the image for every frame of video. Typically, you shouldn’t need to make it larger than 300dpi, and that is still quite large.

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