Edit in Animation Codec ?

[Solagratia77]

Thank you David ,Bob, Bret, Espnetboy3 & bodgetastic !!

I am not sure our MacPro’s HDDs are fast enough but
it’s good to know that QT Anim codec works in FCP.

And also like bodgetastic mentioned, if importing of
image sequences can be done easily in FCP, we’d love
to try to work that way. All our 3D renders are done
in image sequences, so it would save us some time
generating QTs for NLE.

Anyhow thanks again to you all.
And I’ll let you know how the trasition
(from Premiere Pro to FCP) goes.

Thank you

-J
SolaGratia

[David Roth weiss]

[solagratia77] “if importing of
image sequences can be done easily in FCP, we’d love
to try to work that way.”

Just open User Preferences, open the Editing tab, and change the very first option Still/Freeze Duration to 00:00:00:01. Now import your sequential files into a folder in the browser. Bingo, you’re done.

When its time to edit them into the timeline, just select all of the individual frames or just the part you need and drop them into your sequence on a separate track above any video layers. That’s it. If any motion effects of scaling need to be done you can change one frame and copy that over to all others in the sequence, or nest the file sequence, which BTW still allows the alpha channel to do its thing.

Try it, you’ll like it.

DRW

[Andy Gallagher]

Is it possible to easily keyframe the effects across the sequence, e.g. an opacity fade or a cross-fade from one render to another?

[Bjørn Holmgren]

Quicktime Pro can combine image sequences into a QT reference or self-contained file. Much easier to deal with in FCP than hundreds or thousands of images.

[Andreas Wittenstein]

[Bob Flood] “i have tried both straight animation AND “Sheer” rgba and yuva codecs and they dont play in real time either”

Bob,

Without alpha, you shouldn’t have any problem playing SheerVideo tracks at 720p, even off a single SATA drive.

If you’re using an alpha channel, are you using premultiplied alpha (faster) or straight alpha (slower)?

If the alpha is for compositing over another video track, I suspect you’ll have to render in any case.

Were you using the SheerVideo Easy Setups that come with the SheerVideo installer?

Cheers,

Andreas Wittenstein
BitJazz Inc.
https://www.bitjazz.com/

[Andreas Wittenstein]

[bodgetastic] “Animation is ‘lossless’ compression