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Using motion to export image sequences to quicktime
Either I’m missing something or Apple has clearly overlooked a key feature of an online (or at least online-capable) video editing system.
I’m working on an animated project. For our final delivery we are getting image sequences for the company that is doing the final online (using a high-end system). However, we want to check the image sequences against our offline animated quicktimes which we have been editing with.
The issue is, when this process picks up we will be getting at least 50 shots a day as image sequences. Why is it that I can import image sequences in quicktime and export them from there, but I can’t import them at all in FCP? I discovered that Motion can import them, but there is no real option for a batch export, nor can I just bounce them over to FCP.
Short of purchasing after effects, how can I say, import fifty image sequences, then batch export them all into quicktimes with them maintaining the complex file names and all that more or less automatically (IE, without having to do it each and every time?) You can’t can you?
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I’m pretty sure you need AE to do this (its what I do)
It is a bit odd that fcp can’t handle image sequences.
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I agree that it’s odd. Ideally, I should be able to import image sequences into FCP and it’s not like the technology is beyond its capabilities, especially since Motion recognizes them so easily. At the very least, I should be able to bounce them over to FCP via Motion somehow, without having to render hundreds of quicktimes that will only serve to fill up my hard drive even further.
I mean, if you’re going to be taken seriously as an online contender, why can’t you simply import an image sequence?
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Importing image sequences is very clearly covered in the fine manual.
However…the bad thing about importing image sequences directly into FCP is that the images are loaded into RAM, so IMHO they’re best avoided.
There is a third party app called SilverStack which I believe is designed to do batch conversions to QT
https://pomfort.com/silverstack/It may also be possible to write an Applescript to convert image sequences to QT.
or if you’re happy importing to Motion then just save the Motion project and bring that into FCP.
Martin
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