FCP X Image Sequences and Still Frame Durations

[Tom Adams]

Running FCP 10.0.4. Read all the posts, going a little crazy. I just imported 300 images, all set at 10 seconds. Finally figured out that I could select all images, press ctrl+D, then type in 600 and hit enter. Voila, all images are now 6 seconds.

[Carlo Ferraro]

Tom:
Tried to do what you suggested but using control D does nothing and using command D creates a new set of images. I did it on the set of images in the event library. Can you please explain in more detail what did you do.
Thanks
Carlo

Imac 27 Quad 2.93, 8GB Ram, 1GB Graphics, FW800 external + Raid

[Carlo Ferraro]

OK, now I got it… put the sequence of frames on the timeline, mark’em all, control D, write 1 frame and return, this way there is only one frame of each picture and the animation can be exported.
Carlo

Imac 27 Quad 2.93, 8GB Ram, 1GB Graphics, FW800 external + Raid

[Ben Hopkins]

There is another way to get still images into FCPX, and that’s through iPhoto. It’s the camera icon you’d click on in the lower right pane of the FCPX interface. If you have 50k photos, it takes a while to index, but once it does, you can drag and drop directly into the timeline.

This method DOES respect the preferences setting for length of still images, unlike dragging a handful of stills from the event library.

What’s nice about this, is that if you use iPhoto to organize and touch up (red-eye removal, etc) your sill images, organizing them by sort order into albums, all that meta-data comes across in this pane, and you can simply drag and drop them in a batch to the timeline, with the durations all matching the FCPX preference setting.

Ben Hopkins

[Sjon Ueckert]

This is the best way to import animation frames. Shift Select all the animation frames in the browser. Type Control D, then in the Time Counter above the timeline, type 1. Then type “W” or “Q” to have the 1 frame images inserted into the timeline. Works every time. Sweet