[danyon]

Hi guys. I need to make a "movie" from digital fotos and I don't know what program to use. I have Final Cut Pro and one can easily add fotos but you cannot make the fotos "lively". I have used MOTION and that's very good because one can add keyframes, move the pictures, zoom, add effects and music on the background, however MOTION is probably not meant for longer projects and my movie should be about 5-10 minutes or even longer.

What kinda program should I use for that purpose. The Program shouldh have decent possibilities to control what one does and not just add the fotos and watch what happens.

Thanks guys.

[TETENAL]

http://www.lqgraphics.com/software/phototomovie.php

[X-Ti]

fcp can do keyframes then zoom and pan... have you searched Apples forum? or are you wanting to do more than that when you say "lively"?

[ewiser]

Second the Photo to Movie recomendation. I use it all the time for working with still photo's even though you can do this in Final Cut it is just so much easier in Photo to Movie.

[danyon]

Photo to Movie looks ok, but are there other similiar kind of programs. I'm afraid that Photo to Movie might at the end lack of some features or possibilities to control what you do inside the progragm. SO I'd rather have a program that has much more options that I don't use than notice that the program is lacking option I'd like to have.

Is there for example a professional program for something like that?

[ewiser]

Well I do use it professionally. There all kinds of controls in Photo to movie.
I have used other pieces of software stilllife is one. Using multiable keyframes I can move all around an image and add music, and text with different motion. With music you can change songs by moving them on the time line.
The fellow that develops it also does a simple version for toast.

[danyon]

Thanks for answering. Could you recommend one of the programs over another one (Photo to Movie or Stilllife).

Have you any knowledge about "Fotomagico" ? Someone recommended that program.

http://www.fotomagico.com/

[ewiser]

I tried fotomagico but use Photo to movie for the greater control I get in move around an image. I produce DVD's of art shows and I use the key frames and the ability to zoom into the image to show detail of the art. It really sell's the DVD's.