Outputting a thumnail storyboard?

[Tom Wolsky]

Use batch export. Once you have your poster frames set for the clips, use batch export. Set the export type to still image and pick the format you want. Make a folder for the destination and save them.

All the best,

Tom

Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 2 Editing Workshop” Class on Demand “Complete Training for FCP5” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy” DVDs

[Kevin]

Hey Tom,

Many thanks for posting back and for sharing this tip.

Some followup questions if I may?

I am cutting from hour long captured tapes – so if I create subclips by dragging all my clips from the timeline they are rearranged by parent media name – Tape A1 etc. Is there any way I can arrange the subclips I’ve created in the browser in the order they are in my timelinee?

Setting poster frames. Do I do this in the time line or in each newly created subclip in the browser?

Will batch export export the first frame of a subclip (presuming I have to be working in the browser to use batch export). This would be fine for my purposes and avoid having to set 100s of poster frames.

Again many thanks for sharing your knowledge.

Warmest,

Kevin

[Tom Wolsky]

1. No there isn’t.

2. The poster frame will be the In point of the clip, unless set in the browser to some other frame.

3. If you open the clips and play them and put them in the timeline, then the frame that gets exported is the frame that the underneath the playhead.

All the best,

Tom

Class on Demand DVDs “Complete Training for FCP6,” “Basic Training for FCS2” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy”
Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 3.5 HD Editing Workshop”

[Tom Wolsky]

You might want to test this. It looks like the current version is broken and does not batch export the correct frame. I can’t figure out what it’s doing, but it’s something else that’s been hosed in the application.

All the best,

Tom

Class on Demand DVDs “Complete Training for FCP6,” “Basic Training for FCS2” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy”
Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 3.5 HD Editing Workshop”

[Kevin]

Hi Tom,

Many thanks for this feedback. Looks like it’s tough to accomplish getting a thumnail storyboard with my workflow ie. cutting from whole chunks (hours) of media into the timeline. If it’s not possible to keep the order of the sequqnce when you make subclips in the browser then batch export doesn’t look like an option.

Thinking now more towards some automation like quickeys whick might have a recordable action to advance to the next clip, export a jpeg and on and on…

Other than that it might be a screengrab of each frame in the browser, but that’s not v ery time efficient at all.

I’ll post back what I come up with.

Surprised it’s hard to do this as I think i would be a a useful feature for editors to be able to see their cut visually on paper.

again many thanks Tom for you input.

Kevin