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Preset mark-in/mark-out
I was sent about a thousand TGA animation files. I need to assemble them one-frame-at-a-time. I’ve imported them all, but now comes the hard part. Is there any way to just drag them to the timeline and have them show up as one frame each file? When I click on one in the browser, it opens with preset marks and a 10 sec. duration. Can you change that to be 1 frame? Or, is there a way to create a macro to do this?
Ernie Santella
Santella Film/Video Productions
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I’m pretty sure you can import a tga sequence as a clip. But if you want to do it by importing them all, just change your user prefs still duration to 1 frame and then import them. If they are all numbered correctly, 001, 002, etc. where they can be sorted and displayed in the bin the the correct order you should be able to just select them all and drag them to a sequence. I’d drag them to their own seueqnce and then use that sequence as a clip.
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Bret, it worked! They now import as one frame each file. Thanks!
Ernie Santella
Santella Film/Video Productions
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If your image sequence is named properly (image001, image002, image003, Etc.) you can use quicktime to open it up and export a clip to use in FCP in whatever format/codec you are working in.
Open Quicktime, then choose open image sequence (or shift-command-o) and point it to a picture in your image sequence folder.
If you want to work in the TGA files you can change your preferences in FCP to import stills at one frame. Go to the Final Cut Pro > User Preferences menu and then click on the editing tab. THe first option is still/freeze duration. Change that to 00:00:00:01. then import your stills.
If your stills are already imported you can select all the stills in the browser and change their duration to 1 frame by changing one of them, copying that duration, then pasting the 1 frame duration in each clip.
Jeremy
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Jeremy, that’s for ideas too. It was easy to just change the user setting for duration to 1 frame and re-import them. Then, I just selected them all and dragged them right to the timeline. Bingo, perfect animation! I then exported them as a By-reference, self-contained movie to create a single clip to ease moving it around.
Ernie Santella
Santella Film/Video Productions
http://www.santellaproductions.com
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