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Freeze Frames into Slideshow
I am editing a slideshow from another slideshow. The original has cheesy transitions that I want to get rid of. So, I took the time to make freeze frames of every still, since I don’t have access to the original image files.
There is a voice-over that the slideshow needs to match the duration of. I’m hoping that I can take the time of the VO and divide the number of stills to determine how long each still should last. Well, I know I can do that – but can I change the duration of all these stills at once? They all originally defaulted to 10 seconds. I want to change that for all of them at the same time.
So, I have a bin with god-knows-how-many freeze frames. I would like to be able to select them all, have the computer tell me how many I have selected and then change the duration to whatever I specify. Is this possible?
Perhaps I need to do some kind of batch export, change the default still duration and bring them all back into FCP?
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This workflow could be problematic, for a number of reasons. You may have interlacing going on in your FFs, you may need to deinterlace them. Regarding length, you can set the still duration in user prefs and then make a new project, the length will apply. Generally, FCP sucks for this.
When I use stills for a slideshow, I normally use Fotomagico, which is designed for this. last week someone here was griping about spending many, many hours doing a slideshow in FCP, in Fotomagico you do them in minutes.
Unfortunately, I don’t think you can use your FFs in it, but if you could, you can highlight all the stills and change all their durations with one mouse click.
Have a wonderful day.
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Thank you. I didn’t think of making a new project and bringing the stills into it. Unfortunately I already went the export/change/import route.
It wasn’t terribly difficult, but when I selected all the freeze frame stills and choose to Batch Export, FC didn’t like the file names THAT IT HAD CREATED ITSELF for the stills! (because of the colons in the timecode I guess)
So, I had to manually name each file 001-148… that seems unnecessary – but it wouldn’t let me export them otherwise. -
I second Fotomagico.
[Chris Poisson] “Unfortunately, I don’t think you can use your FFs in it,”
You cant use FCP FF in it, but you can use quicktime pro to export a picture file and then use that.
There are no “technical solutions” to your “artistic problems”.
Don’t let technology get in the way of your creativity! -
Good call Zane.
Have a wonderful day.
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Actually, just to try it, I created a new project with new default still duration, and then copied the freeze frames from my old project, and they had the same old duration as before. Is this not what you were suggesting I could do?
I’ve already solved the issue by changing the default duration, exporting the stills, then bringing them back in. It seems like there should be a quicker way though.
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