Editing frames as a group in Final Cut.

[Victor Perez]

What did you export the clip as?

Did you try Animation Millions of colors +
The plus is your alpha

hope that helps

Victor

[John Steventon]

Not sure if I’ve got the right grasp of what you’re trying to do, but have you tried nesting all the frames into one big chunk on V2 (assuming V1 is the book) – and working with that? (select all frames, alt+c to nest)

Or am I off-base?

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[Matt Larson]

Have you tried nesting the frames? (Highlight the frames in the sequence and then chose Nest from the Sequence menu I think)

Then, to resize, etc you will need to drag the nested sequence from the timeline into the Viewer window and click the motion tab.

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[John Christie]

The best way to deal with individual frames is to convert them to an animation codec mov with alpha (millions +)

Open Quicktime player and choose open image sequence. Then export the save the resulting QT movie.

Trying to deal with thousands of stills in FCP will bog the program down.

Cheers

John Christie

[Nick Meyers]

“Trying to deal with thousands of stills in FCP will bog the program down.”

i’ll second this,
which is to say NESTING IS BAD for what you want to do.
as John says, use QuickTime to convert the Image Sequences into video

to preserve quality of the image sequence, PLUS the alpha people are suggesting Animation codec,
but that’s pretty unwieldy to work with in an off-line.

i understand that going OUT of FCP, Animation is the only codec that carries an Alpha,
but coming in?
surely other codecs can carry an alpha channel?

nick