FCP for Animation?

[Bryce Whiteside]

Final Cut Pro or DVD Studio Pro comes with QuickTime Pro (the official paid version) and I believe QT Pro can import a series of frames and turn them into an uncompressed video QT stream to be edited and composited inside FCP.

I have always used Adobe After Effects to turn image sequences into .MOV files, but like I said, I QuickTime Pro (not the QT Player) will do it also.

As far as standards conversion to maintain your animations timing, you might want to pick up Nattress’s filters.
https://www.nattress.com/standardsConversion.htm
If your animations don’t have to be exactly the same timing for NTSC of PAL then you can just import your image sequence into QuickTime Pro at different frame rates 29.97 fps for NTSC and 25 fps for PAL–obviously your PAL sequence will be longer.

If you are going to deliver digital files to your client, then just find out which codec they would like them in, DVCPRO 50, DVCPro HD, BlackMagic universal uncompressed (found here: https://www.blackmagic-design.net/support/software/ ), .WMV (Flip4Mac https://www.flip4mac.com/ or Compression Master https://www.popwire.com/ ), QuickTime .MOV’s, et al.

If they are going to tape, make you sequence 8-bit or 10-bit uncompressed and encode the sequence files to match and out to tape with them.

This compares Final Cut Pro HD to Avid Xpress Pro HD, but it gives you a quick rundown of important feature sets in FCP HD:
https://www.geniusdv.com/tutorials/avid-vs-finalcutpro.php

Sorry you had to post this question twice,
Bryce

Don’t worry Mr. B. I have a cunning plan…

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