Import image sequences?

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Import image sequences?

Posted by Christian Roth on June 30, 2011 at 4:01 pm

Dear Forum members,
Is it possible to import image sequences into fcpx?
regards, Chris

Simon Ubsdell replied 14 years, 10 months ago 5 Members · 11 Replies
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Jeff Greenberg
June 30, 2011 at 4:17 pm

It doesn’t look like it sees them.

The workaround is to open an image sequence in QuickTime 7 (which it sees via the file menu) and save it as a QuickTime.

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Simon Ubsdell
June 30, 2011 at 4:18 pm

Not as far as I know – you’d have to use Quicktime 7 to import them first as an image sequence and then export a movie.

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Christian Roth
June 30, 2011 at 7:50 pm

Thanks for your answers. Works when I save the movie to prores quicktime. simply saving the movie (an thus inheriting the jpg codec with 18mpix) did not work. ended up in a mess finally crashing fcpx.
Simon Ubsdell
June 30, 2011 at 7:56 pm

[Christian Roth] “simply saving the movie (an thus inheriting the jpg codec with 18mpix) did not work”

That’s why I said Export not Save As 😉

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Brendan Gibbons
June 30, 2011 at 7:56 pm

In compressor, at the top there is an option to “add image sequence”….

then you can cook it into any old format you require.

Cheers

Brendan
Christian Roth
June 30, 2011 at 8:16 pm

😉 yeah. so now i have to figure out how to compose pan and zooms in my timelapse clips. not a job for fcpx, I assume.
Simon Ubsdell
June 30, 2011 at 8:39 pm

[Christian Roth] ” how to compose pan and zooms in my timelapse clips. not a job for fcpx, I assume.”

Actually it’s pretty easy to do with the Ken Burns effect inside FCPX – you can’t finesse the keyframes but it would be a very quick way of doing it fairly well.

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Christian Roth
June 30, 2011 at 8:54 pm

[Simon Ubsdell] “Actually it’s pretty easy to do with the Ken Burns effect inside FCPX – you can’t finesse the keyframes but it would be a very quick way of doing it fairly well.”

As fcpx won’t import image sequences (w/ proxies for editing, f.i.), my source resolution will be limited to 4K max., if I understand correctly. thus, I am loosing potential to zoom into the picture.
regards, Chris
dp, Austria
Simon Ubsdell
June 30, 2011 at 9:37 pm

[Christian Roth] “my source resolution will be limited to 4K max.”

And 4K won’t be big enough for your needs? How big is your final project going to be?!

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David Battistella
July 4, 2011 at 10:53 am

I don’t think FCP 7 ever did this.

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