• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Time Lapse Project

  Posted by Derek Haager on July 31, 2009 at 2:24 am

  Trying to put together a time lapse project using thousands of JPGs in FCP. Does anyone know of the best workflow for this?

  The way I am trying it is by creating an image sequence in Quicktime Pro, then importing the resulting >mov files into FCP.

  The render keeps crashing with a “General Error”

  Also, I think I might bew running into some problems because the resolution of the JPG’s is far beyond HD, and the framerate used in creating the Image Sequence(15fps)

  Any help will be greatly appreciated!!!

  Hector Berrebi replied 17 years, 1 month ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Hector Berrebi

  July 31, 2009 at 9:15 am

  if you don’t need to manipulate Jpegs individually on the timeline,

  you could try this.

  after you loaded the image sequence into QT, save as, and chose the “not self contained” option. this will create a reference file.

  open this file in compressor, and encode it to ProRes HQ. if pessible, it is recommended you re-size to HD dimensions (or crop to HD proportions before you make the image sequence and then re-size)

  don’t work in uncommon resolutions, FCP is not optimized for that

  use this file for work.

  a Jpeg image sequence is not a favorable format to work with in FCP

  if you do need freedom in manipulating, bring all of your Jpegs into FCP
  in the user settings, in the editing tab, you can set the duration of still images, set it to 1 or 2 frames.

  if your stills are name ordered, select them all at once, and throw them on an HD ProRes timeline. re-size, adjust and crop in FCP

  might work better for you than what you are trying now

  Hector Berrebi
  Schibber Group
  prePost Consulting

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