File import stupid newbie question

[Stuart Simpson]

Easiest way to do this is to use Quicktime, and not Final Cut…

Open Quicktime and then choose “open image sequence” from the file menu. That should let you create a movie that you can then bring into Final Cut as one clip.

-Simmie
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[Jeremy Garchow]

Do you mean you have 100 jpegs that you want to turn into a quicktime movie? If that is the case, you need to choose the duration of the jpegs you import in the editing tab of your user preferences, choose an easy setup using the project settings you want (such as 8-bit Uncompressed, or DV50, or whatever) import the clips, arrange them in a timeline, render, and export a self-contained movie using the current settings of your project. As far as timecode, it’s going to start at whatever timecode you start your sequence and a reel number will not be assigned until you reimport the exported clip and assign a reel number. Although, these should not matter as the file will be digital and will have to be imported anyway. Reel number and timecode is usually helpful for tape based editing. Why don’t you lay it off to tape and redigitize? That way it will have it’s own assigned timecode and reel number. The settings in your edl will match the edl you give to the conform or online house (or whoever you’re giving this to). It also make a conforming process easier on another NLE since they will have to digitize from tape instead of converting your digital file to whatever codec they are using.

Media 100 had the ‘magic button’ to turn your still sequences into one clip on import, but FCP does not have it.

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[Stephane Labrie]

Hi!

Thanks for the answer. I’m looking to edit based on multiple image file sequences that will have a tape and timecode in a near future (I already have this data and want to put this in FCP for tracking and EDL purposes). So, I’d like not to encode a quicktime since I will loose the data about the jpeg files location AND will waste many hour of encoding.

So, do I conclude that FCP can’t import a file sequence as a single clip just like Media100, Avid, etc do?

Thanks!

[Tony]

I believe I have a similar question.
I have over 200 photos that are .JPG, I need to make a sequence will all the photos having a time of 1-2 seconds. Is there a “short-cut” to do this? I already have them is a bin, since I am using them is other parts of the video.
Thanks.
–Tony

[Stuart Simpson]

Hmmm,

you could always set the preferences so that your stills duration is only 1 frame. You could then import a folder select all the stills and drop them on a timeline. The settings for stills duration is in the user preferences menu, under the editing tab.

-Simmie
1 G5 – Cinewave
5 G4s – Cinewave
1 xbox, 1 PS2 & a Gamecube
https://www.speak.co.uk

[Stephane Labrie]

Hi Simmie.

I saw this option, but still, it does not help my main problem: I have to export an EDL or XML and I want the 100 frames to act as a single source clip with timcode & tape name.

Thanks for your help guys. I`ll have to workaround it since FCP can`t do what I`d like to do.

[Jeremy Garchow]

Can you explain why you don’t want to export a quicktime again?

What do you mean you will lose the jpegs’ location and spend many hours encoding? If you want the 100 clips to become one clip with reel/xml information why not make it as such?

Jeremy

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[Stephane Labrie]

Many reasons:
-encoding multiple file sequences take times (I’m looking to work with large image file) and it is an extra step.
-I want the XML to point to the JPEG files and not to Quicktime movies
-Other application can create one clip from a bunch of image files. I was sure that FCP could do that

Thanks!