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Stop Motion Workflow
I’m doing something completely new (for me) in FCP. I have A couple of thousand jpgs sequentially numbered that I want to lay into a sequence, in order, for three frames each. It’s basically a stop-motion sequence. My approach would have been to simply create a QT image sequence (having duped the images twice to create three frames) but some of the images are portrait while some are landscape so the portrait ones ended up squashed.
Back in FCP is there a simpler way, or a way of batch processing the images (or clips as they are known there), so that I don’t have to open each one in the viewer and select three frames before dropping it into the sequence? Apart from taking forever I think I’d end up with RSI.
As I say this is new to me so there are probably very obvious things I’m missing.
Thanks,
James
FCP 5.1.4
2 GB RAM
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3 Replies
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I’ve never encountered the squish when exporting an image sequence as a movie from QT Pro.
I’d start by batching all of your portraits in Photoshop to create new jpgs against a black background at your specific video sequence resolution/size.
You can do the image sequence movie out of QT and then just time stretch it to 300%. that will give you 3 frames of each single frame.
bogiesan
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Not sure but I’m pretty sure you can do what you want fairly easily in motion. Though the portrait ones will need special attention first.
Actually, if you do what you need to do to the portrait images first, then you could probably use QT Pro or Motion….
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Thanks guys – I think this is still going to involve a lot of tedious work for me, going through and sorting out all the portrait ones for a start.
Thanks for the help though, and if anyone has any other ideas please don’t hold back.
James
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