how do I capture a scrolling blog animation

Dear Group,

I am working with FCP 5.0.4 on OS l0.4.6 on a G5 with l GB and my external HD is LaCie.

I am working on a 26 minute edit of a festival and would like to include my blog images. I want it to look like you are scrolling down the blog. How do I do this? I thought that I could screen capture and then import and that looks really bad.

Thanks,

Diane



[www.ashadedviewonfashion.com]

What program are you using to capture your screen? I use SnapzPro and it looks great.

Perhaps you could capture the screens one at a time, and sew together a tall image in photoshop. Then manipulate the image with FCP - i.e. tilt down to reveal it by moving the y axis.

What Mike said about stitching screencaps in Photoshop (COMMAND/SHIFT/4 gives you a crosshair cursor that allows you to outline & choose an area of the screen)...only I wouldn't animate the image, I would bring that tall image into After Effects and animate a camera & light onto the still image. MUCH more flexibility in movement (not to mention COOLER-looking!)

- Joey



When life gives you dilemmas...make dilemmanade.

Thanks for the answers, I have not mastered after effects and was wondering if there was a way to do it without it and to still get good results.

Shane, I am looking for video. I take it that you recommend that SnapzPro is better than using the built in screen capture (control, apple, shift, 4 to capture into clipboard or into photoshop?) Is the resolution going to be good enough when the film is projected on a screen in a cinema?

Best, Diane



[www.ashadedviewonfashion.com]

The Shift-Apple-4 only gets you a still. A darn good still image quality. Compressed PNG which is a great compressor.

But if you want moving video, SNAPZPRO might be the way to go, and you can save that capture as ANY codec QT Pro supports.