Hello all,
Even though I have gone into Final Cut Pro X's preferences and set the still image default length to 4.0 seconds, whenever I import a photo into FCPro X, the length is 10 seconds. It is driving me crazy!
Any ideas?
Marlo
Final Cut Pro X, Mac OS X (10.7.2)
Have you tried trashing your preferences?
Unexplained faults like this can often be fixed by clearing out FCP X's preferences (for some reason, they get knotted up from time to time).
Download Digital Rebellion's Preference Manager (free, simple to use, and perfectly safe, both to download and use).
With Preference Manager, you can backup the Prefs first, then if trashing makes no difference, you can restore all your settings.
If you trash them and don't restore them, you will need to manually restore all your FCP X settings again, so it's a great idea to backup Preferences from time to time when FCP X is working well, then if they get corrupted you can ditch the bad prefs and restore from your (Digital Rebellion) backup.
Can't guarantee it, but it's worth a try.
Andy
The default still length in the Editing panel preference is not an import preference. The still imports as 10 seconds. The preference is the selection duration. If you click on a still in the browser it makes a four second selection or whatever you set in the Editing preferences.
Thanks Tom, that explains it all. Do you know of a way to quickly place multiple photos into the timeline with a 4 second playback. It seems that the method you described forces me to have to select each photo in the browser then append to the storyline.
Marlo
Most folks don't realize FCP 7 was the same way, if you opened a still in the Viewer, it had lots of handles on each side, with In/Out points.
I'd select all my stills, "E" to drop them into my Primary Storyline, in the Timeline Select All (Cmd+A), and then set the duration to 4 seconds (Cntrl+D, type in "4.", hit enter).
Does anyone know what to type if you want the photos to last for less than one second?
Can you still use (Cntrl +D) and then indicate a frame number rather than number of seconds?
I'm trying to set a lot of still images (6,000) to one frame each in order to create a timelapse. I would love to not have to do each one individually.
Thanks!!
I've been wrestling with the same issue as macasabar. Awesome BenB. This certainly works. Not as slick as using QT 7 (which keeps crashing on my Lion) but works well. Thank you.
What a great tip, Thanks Ben!
I read, that if you use iPhoto to import your stills, it will use your default, time setting, for your stills.
Russ
Nope, iPhoto and Aperture photos both import just like any others, 10 seconds.
Control-D in the timeline and type 1 and Enter.
Thank you so much! This was so helpful.
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