Image Files – Stills After Import, How to organize

[Noah Kadner]

You could also just make a Stills event and further organize it by keyword. Lots of ways you could do that. However, you’ll always see all files at the default Library view.

Noah

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[James Cude]

Out of curiosity, are those still frames of an image sequence?

[Alexa Lee]

Yes, I guess to avoid the massively long list of files, could use quicktime? Have not tried it though

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[Noah Kadner]

oh yeah if it’s image sequences there’s zero benefit to bringing them in as frames into X. I’d open in QT and export as ProRes HQ- you’ll be all set.

Noah

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[Alexa Lee]

Thanks for the info all. Been wondering about this for a while and was stumped

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[Mark Smith]

I find i am frequently working. With time lapse sequences from digital stills cameras. Compressor can be used to create image sequences from series of stills . While i have created images sequences inside X , its far better to make an image sequence outside of x and then import the .mov. You end up with less clutter in your browser, and X runs better without hundreds or thousands of discreet image files in he library.

[Alexa Lee]

thanks for the info, will change the workflow to make sequences before importing

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[Mark Smith]

I think you’ll be far happier with this workflow. I started out building time lapses in X and its ok as long as your stills equences are limited in the amount of photos. When I got into having thousands of photos in a long sequence X could still pull it off but it clearly was a strain.

Making an image sequence in compressor at native photo resolution ( say 4kX3K pixels) and then bringing the resulting pro res file into x streamlines the editing process. If you make your image sequence resolution native to the stills, once you bring it into X you have the option of sizing the image to your time line or using the native resolution and doing crops and moves on the image sequence which might be significantly larger than a 1920×1080 project time line.

[Alexa Lee]

Hi Mark

I tried this today – Using Compressor. I have .png files — not compatible?

After If I try to select the files, I can’t even do that – won’t let me select them

I’ve tried to drop them into the batch folder, but then it seems ok with the files but wants to handle each one — one by one and make each image file a “job” — not letting me put them all together.

Compressor doesn’t like .png files?

I guess I will go back to just dropping them into FCP (not making the .mov), making events like Noah mentioned.

That said – the issue there is that the time is the off…does anyone ever notice that?

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[Alexa Lee]

I created the .movs in Motion. It was easy

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