Still Image Duration

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Thumperness Author

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Still Image Duration

I am working on getting a bunch of still images turned into a video. The version of FCPX that I am using is:

The directions I am using are:

In your FCPX preferences/settings, change the default still frame duration to 1 frame.
Import all of your still image files into FCPX.
Create a new project and drag all of your still images into the timeline.
‘Select All’ so that every image in the timeline is selected.
Right click and select ‘Make Compound Clip’.
Use your new compound clip as a video file in any regular project.

Line 1 makes sense until you look at my preferences box:

Still image Duration is set in seconds not frames. So I divided 1 second by 30 and got .03. I put that in and it still set each still image to about 15 frames. No bueno.

Is there a way to either directly set the duration to frames, or set the units of time to frames?

What am I missing

Thanx for the help.

Thumperness

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Posted on Jan 4, 2019 8:38 AM

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Answer 1

Tom Wolsky

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Jan 4, 2019 10:37 AM in response to Thumperness

This is not an import preference, but a selection preference. 0.03 will give you one frame, but that's only when you select an image in the browser by clicking on it, which of course doesn't do much good as it's too small to drag.

Put the images in a project, select them all and use Control-D for duration. Type 1 and press return. The images will be one frame. If you want to export it as a movie, just export it.

You might want to think about Compressor if you have a lot of this to do as that allows you open image sequences and export video files.

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