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Batch ‘bake’ stills in timeline
Hi,
Does anyone know a way to batch ‘bake’ all the stills in a timeline? Or if I create a timeline of just the stills how to ‘bake’ them to ProRes?
I have 200 stills in a feature length sequence and need to do this ASAP. Doing it clip by clip will take far too long! There must be a way!
I’ve tried media manager, and I’ve even given each still REEL metadata but FCP just moves the still, it doesn’t transcode it etc.
I’m thinking I could export the sequence as movie and then notch with an EDL, but this would lose the transitions, which I need.
Any ideas welcome. I’m doing this to prep the sequence for a Baselight grade (following a very similar workflow for prepping for Color)
THANKS!
Toby
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11 Replies
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Are you just trying to render items in the sequence?
Select “CMD A” to select ALL in the sequence and hit “CMD R” for render.
Go to sequence settings first and choose the codec prores.
Chris Tompkins
Video Atlanta LLC -
Firstly – Whoa…check out our last names.
Secondly, no I’m not just trying to render the stills. Unless I can link the clips to self contained quicktime renders? i.e. quicktimes.
I need to ‘bake’ the pan and scans on the images, turning these clips into standalone rendered ProRes clips.
Toby
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One by one is truly the best way. You have to extend handles if using transitions.
It’s a pain, but it’s a sure way.
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it’s such a shame this can’t be done via FCP’s media manager…
I can’t do it in time manually…so for now I’ve transcoded and relinked all the stills to Tiff…so hopefully Baselight can work with that and if not they’ll be graded separately later in Color.
There must be a batch way of doing this! lol
Toby
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Media manager will just treat it as a still as you have found out.
For now, you have to do it yourself.
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Have you tried the batch export que?
here’s a link that might help you. https://imnotbruce.blogspot.com/2011/02/final-cut-pros-batch-export.html
Once you’ve exported You may be able to relink the stills to the movies.
Jeffrey Di Lullo
jeffedits.com -
Great idea, but the relink won’t work as the exports are named after the subclip.
Toby
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I’m not sure if this is what you want to do or if this helpful but…
why not make sure all your stills are on the same track [say 10].
Then disable ALL the other tracks.
Then put your your in and out points at the very beginning and end of the ACTUAL project [so you can
maintain sync] and the do a QT Export, ProRes 4444 [with Alpha] export of the entire film.That will make a stills-only layer with all the moves, etc baked in.
Make sense?
W
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If you keep the naming based on the sub clip you can just do f11 replace edit. Export the batch of stills to QT. Then import the newly created QT’s to a new bin in fcp. then you can replace one by one in the timeline. It would be pretty painless ( unless we are talking about 100’s of shots).
Jeffrey Di Lullo
jeffedits.com -
There’s no handles form dissolves that way, either. You would have to keyframe the grade during the dissolve, which can be super tricky.
If you would have started when you first posted, you’d be done by now! 🙂
Jeremy
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