Exporting huge number of stills to create storyboard of sorts.

[Walter Biscardi]

Quite honestly with non-linear editing, it’s much faster and easier to simply start constructing elements in timelines rather than take the time to do what you want to do. Especially with something as fluid as dance because one movement, one hand move, one turn of the head greatly affects how you would transition to the next image.

Remember that you can have pretty much infinite timelines open in FCP. Create a timeline, start working some elements together. Create a second timeline, work some more elements together. If you want to go back and change a timeline, be sure to make a duplicate so you don’t destruct what you’ve already worked on. As you start building various elements, you can then bring them together into a “master” timeline and build your final project.

I’ve worked on a few dance / music projects and I find I really have to work with moving images and not a storyboard when it comes to something like this.

Walter Biscardi, Jr.
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[Rennie Klymyk]

[Victoria] ” Is there a more efficient way to get stills out of FC? (I don

[Rennie Klymyk]

just came accross this thread on the P2 forum

https://forums.creativecow.net/cgi-bin/new_read_post.cgi?forumid=193&postid=861767&pview=t#head

thread.

[Alan Lacey]

I’ve never tried it but I did make a mental note when I read this workflow on the cow months ago.

—–You can batch export stills from a clip by setting markers where you want the stills extracted. Pull the clip from the timeline back to the Browser so it’s now independent. There will be a twirly next to the clip. Twirl it open to expose the markers. Select the markers and control-click Batch Export.

This is so cool. Apparently it’s in the freakin’ manual somewhere. I can’t find it.——-

I didn’t keep a note of the poster.

Alan PALland

[Victoria Murphy]

Thanks Walter. You would have to see how I work with my footage to see why I need to do this. For what I am doing, storyboarding will save me time in the long run.

[Victoria Murphy]

Alan, This sounds like a super interesting way to export a bunch of stills to make my storyboard. Things have been such that I still haven’t had time to try this. I keep waiting to write a thank you till I actually try it, but since yet again I am sitting down to work on this project and still haven’t gotten to this, I wanted to write a big thank you in advance.
Victoria

[Victoria Murphy]

Rennie, Forgive me for taking two months to thank you for the post. I have been sorely waylaid on this project. Anyway, the thread is a little high tech for me, but I will refer back to it as I continue to dig deeper into this project. Thanks again.
Victoria

[Victoria Murphy]

Well, I did get to this tonight. It didn’t work for me. I marked the clip, dragged it to the browser and made it independent. The markers were there as the instructions predicted, but when I selected them and control-clicked, the only option was to edit the marker (the name, etc.). Batch export was not available through “edit” either. Maybe it’s because I am working in 4.5. What a disappointment.