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Changing duration when importing a sequence of stills into Avid
Hi Guys,
I’m trying to figure out how to import stills at 4 frames per image while having the ‘autodetect sequential files’ option selected.
I need to import about a hundred stills at four frames each and they are numbered so don’t want to have to drop them all down manually.
I’ve tried this option:
1) Open the console tool (Tools>Console)
2) type in cmd_setimportslidelength XX
(where XX equals the # of frames)But it only imports the last image for four frames. The rest are just for one frame.
Hopefully hear from you soon,
Cheers,
Eimear
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6 Replies
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I’m not sure if you can do exactly what you want, but here’s a way to accomplish it within Avid.
Import each still into a bin and sort by name ascending to put them in numerical order.
Switch to Frame view, select all the stills in the bin (Ctrl+A or Cmd+A), hit I on your keyboard to mark an In point, hit 2 three times (which should be Move 1 Frame Forward on your keyboard), then hit O on your keyboard to mark an Out.
This should give every still an In and Out mark for a 4 frame duration.
Now, with all the clips selected, open your sequence or make a new one, select your bin again (and select all the clips in it), and cut them into your sequence from your bin (you may need to enable this in your settings – it’s called “Enable edit from bin” or something like that). Avid should now take four frames of every still and put them one after another. Shouldn’t take more a few minutes.
Let me know if it doesn’t work.
Michael
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Michael, I believe it’s Script view for this process to work, not Frame view. I don’t cut on MC (ancient XDV version 😀 ), so unless something has changed…….
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It may be script view – I haven’t used it in a while. Although I’m thinking it will work in several different views. I know you can JKL-scrub your clips in Frame view, so I was thinking maybe you could mark In and Out too.
Michael
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Hi Guys,
Thanks a million for all your help. I’m hoping it’ll save me hours!
I tried the approach you recommended but no joy. I selected the stills and marked in and out, in both frame view and script view, but when I tried to drop them into the timeline it wouldn’t let me.
I selected the timeline in order to drop them down but it only registered having the one still in the composer window. I then tried having the bin selected but with no timeline selected it didn’t know where to put them.
Any ideas??
Thanks again guys,
Eimear
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Select everything in your bin and try dragging it to your timeline.
You have to enable being able to edit directly from your bin, but I can’t remember exactly where that setting is.
Michael
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Select all the clips in frame view, hold down the alt/option key, and drag them into the timeline. they will drop in order from top left to bottom right of the frame view.
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