• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Maximum frames in export as image sequence

  Posted by Pradip Patil on December 27, 2009 at 7:29 pm

  Hi

  What is the maximum number of frames a sequence can have so that export as image sequence works fine?

  I might need to export a 70 min (25 fps) sequence as image sequence.

  Is it advisable?

  Gary Adcock replied 16 years, 4 months ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  Jerry Hofmann

  December 28, 2009 at 1:57 pm

  I don’t believe there’s a maximum number of frames in an image sequence of any kind.

  Jerry
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  Gary Adcock

  December 28, 2009 at 2:21 pm

  [Pradip Patil] “What is the maximum number of frames a sequence can have so that export as image sequence works fine? “

  While there is not a limit to the number of frames in a Seq.

  The HFS+ disk format only allows for the total number of be less than 32,768 items in a folder according to this Apple doc:
  https://developer.apple.com/mac/library/technotes/tn/tn1150.html#CatalogFile
  =
  I find it much easier to keep the folders even smaller- keeping the folders content at a TRT of about 10 mins EACH ( 25fps x60sec x10min) or about 15,000 frames

  gary adcock
  Studio37
  HD & Film Consultation
  Post and Production Workflows for the Digitally Inclined
  Chicago, IL

  https://library.creativecow.net/articles/adcock_gary/AJAIOHD.php

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