importing tiffs

[Mark Suszko]

Make a new bin just for the tif files. got into your prefernces and you’ll find a menu item that sets the default duration of stills. Import the frames as one big stack. A folder will work. Problem solved!

[Mark Francis]

cheers its sort of working. thin is when i import the stills and place them on he timeline and hit space to play i cant see anything playing in viewer windows. instead i have to click on a frame to see it in the viewer and only that frame is seen throughout, although the playhead is moving.

please take a look at my settings to see if they are correct, cheers

[Mark Suszko]

You may need to render. Certainly, if you render out that section of the timeline as a self-contained QT mov and import that back in, you then will have a single clip of the entier animation.

Other than that, I think you may have something set wrong in your geenral preferences or window settings, but I can’t diagnose that from here. Render out the reference clip, and see if that plays nice with the other kids on the timeline.:-)

[Jeff Greenberg]

a MUCH easier workflow would be to:

Open the stills in QuickTime 7 – it can see image sequences. Then save out as an Uncompressed (or ProRes) file. Now it’s a single QuickTime file.
or
GO to motion, it’ll auto collapse the image sequence there – then adjust the length of the motion project to the duration of the clips; then you can bring the motion file into fcp.

Best,

Jeff G

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[Mark Francis]

i tried opening in qt but all i got was loads of single frame renders opening up on my desk top. and i dont know how to use motion. if you could go in to detail or step by step how this is don it would be appreciated

cheers

[Jeff Greenberg]

In QuickTime Player (and QuickTime Player 7 not QuickTime X) the choice is to open an Image Sequence….

Then you can save it however you like.

In Motion, you navigate in the File Browser to your image sequence. By default, motion handles image sequences as collapsed.
Then you change the duration of the composition by clicking the frame count in the lower right corner.
Then save as a Motion File and it imports directly into FCP.

Best,

Jeff G

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[Mark Francis]

got it making movies from my stills but some of my tiffs wont open. i get this message

[Mark Suszko]

Need more detail. Also, in the previous picture, I see a file labeled Apache 1, then one labeled Apache 100, etc. The first file needs to have the same number of decimal places in it, or it will get out of sequence, has been my experience. So if the highest frame number you have is “apache600”, the first frame should read “apache001”, not “apache1”

That’s not likely part of your latest problem, though.

[Mark Francis]

look at the attached file and youll see my first frame didnt render, could this be why? all the frame numbers are correct.

[Jeff Greenberg]

Frame numbers ARE NOT correct.

001
002
003
etc
010
011
012
etc
100

Fill out all 3 digits.

Best,

Jeff G

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