Still Frame PAIN

[Chris Borjis]

It doesn’t really support that. one of the odd issues other NLE’s don’t have.

you have to create a quicktime from your sequences in either after effects, motion or quicktime pro first.

[Kurt Wiley]

??? Does FCP always import stills into itself at 29.97 fps ??

The problem is FCP is one of the few apps that supports an Uncompressed 8-bit QT codec that is very helpful for making video test content. AE and other apps cannot access that QT codec (it’s another one of these “secret apple things”, I guess).

I suppose we could use our copy of QT Pro to convert the sequence into something FCP can actually work with.

2d isn’t dead yet!

[Chris Borjis]

[Kurt Wiley] “??? Does FCP always import stills into itself at 29.97 fps ??
The problem is FCP is one of the few apps that supports an Uncompressed 8-bit QT codec that is very helpful for making video test content. AE and other apps cannot access that QT codec (it’s another one of these “secret apple things”, I guess).”

It just brings stills on at whatever duration they are set for import in the preferences.

AE can certainly recognize the 8 and 10 bit uncompressed codecs.
If your talking about AE installed on another machine or pc then you need the free black magic decklink uncompressed codecs installed to recognize those clips on a non-fcp system.

[Kurt Wiley]

thanks for feedback, Chris.
I’ve tried very hard to find this “frame rate preference” for still import but cannot do so. I did find the duration setting.

Is it part of the capture preferences?

If you can tell steps to access / set frame rates for stills, when imported, that would be very helpful.

2d isn’t dead yet!

[Chris Borjis]

the duration setting is it.

[Kurt Wiley]

Here’s what I found in a tutorial at lynda.com : a way to do this:

1. Import your stills (they apparently come in at 29.97 no matter what).
2. Drag the stills to the sequence.
3. Select all of those stills you just dragged into the sequence.
4. CNTL-click on selected stills and choose the “Duration (number)…” item in the contextual menua.
5. You will then see a Duration window appear showing what the stills duration ___for that sequence__ are.
6. Enter the duration you want for all the items (0:00:00:01 being 1 frame).
7. The items will “magically” readjust themselves to your chosen default setting.

The “default” preference is of little help without this “sequence by sequence” trick.

That appears to solve my problem.
I’ve posted this to help others stymied by this FCP wierdness. 🙂

2d isn’t dead yet!

[Mpigott]

Would this mean that graphics for an XDCAM 24p sequence would suffer
from the same issue. I posted above in regards to this
(24p, graphics and pans)

I will investigate this further….

[Kurt Wiley] “Here’s what I found in a tutorial at lynda.com : a way to do this:

1. Import your stills (they apparently come in at 29.97 no matter what).
2. Drag the stills to the sequence.
3. Select all of those stills you just dragged into the sequence.
4. CNTL-click on selected stills and choose the “Duration (number)…” item in the contextual menua.
5. You will then see a Duration window appear showing what the stills duration ___for that sequence__ are.
6. Enter the duration you want for all the items (0:00:00:01 being 1 frame).
7. The items will “magically” readjust themselves to your chosen default setting.

The “default” preference is of little help without this “sequence by sequence” trick.

That appears to solve my problem.
I’ve posted this to help others stymied by this FCP wierdness. :-)”