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[Aharon Rabinowitz]

There was no offense intended.

Look, it was clear to me from your comments about assembling a sequence that you were realitively new to working with video (and that’s not a jab) or at least the software youre using. It sounded to me like you didn’t realize that there was a difference between quicktime and avi, and while filesize may not be a big deal for you, I only have a 200 GB of space, and for uncompressed AVI, that’s not actually that much.

1 minute of uncompressed video is 1.8 GB. A quicktime video can be then half that (even less), depending on the video. My tutorials at 15 minutes long, usually come in as about 3-5 GB. Uncompressed AVI they’d be closer to 18 GB. That may not seem like a big deal to you, but it is, and as you do this more and more, you’ll eventually realize that.

So, we’re not talking about even close to the same end result, regardless of your particular needs, and that’s why I made the clarification. Not to put you down.

Furthermore, you can take these image sequences into Vegas, and then output as a QT (Animation comrpession) with Alpha, and the erase the original image sequence so you have it stored as a Quicktime. Image sequences tend to slow down NLE’s because they are loading and unloading images at every frame, whereas with a quicktime, the video is loaded in at the beginning. Obviosuly huge files will also slow things down a bit, so a quicktime movie is a better option becasue there’s less overhead.

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[Jason Harbaugh]

Gotcha guys. No offense taken. 🙂

Looks like I will be working with image sequences from PI a lot more now. It does seem like one of those items that gets glossed over in any books or tutorials. Easy to miss or in my case, not even think about with my NLE.

I take it Final Cut 5 can take in image sequences as well?

[Elvis Deane]

I don’t think Final Cut brings them in as a clip, though things may have changed since the last time I used it. You used to have to open the sequence up in Quicktime Pro, and render out a Quicktime file to import into Final Cut.

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[Aharon Rabinowitz]

I’ve delivered image sequences to final cut, but I have no idea what they did with it. I think it can read them though.

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Aharon Rabinowitz
aharon(AT)yahoo(DOT)com
http://www.allbetsareoff.com
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Creative Cow Master Series DVD
particleIllusion Fusion Volume 1
available @ http://www.pIllusionFusion.com

[Jason Harbaugh]

Ok I’ll give it a shot. We use two editors here, Vegas and Final Cut. I’m all PC while my associate is all Mac. I’ve given him some PI renders before and they never really worked great due to the method I gave them. We’ll have to try an image sequence to see how it works out. He’s never tried importing an image sequence before in FC.