import stills from GoPro time-lapse sequence as video?

I think they know and let's hope with the next FCP X revision, managing still frames will be one of the many updates. Never tried it, but I'm told even Photoshop handles time-lapse better. You can always add your voice by going to the Provide Feedback drop down in FCP X. I am convinced they are listening.

I've got lots of methods for making movies from stills, but I was hoping it do it all (meaning edit) in one go, in one package. As an animator, every project is a sequence of stills.

ok, selection pref sounds like a great idea - but if I select a bunch of 10 second stills and copy paste or drag to the timeline, I still have a bunch of 10 second stills in the timeline. What is a selection preference good for? Heck, what is a selection preference? Can you point to something in the docs or give an explanation, because whatever it's there for is not intuitive.

"Still images: Editing duration is (x.xx) seconds" in a preference is pretty misleading if it's not relating to how long a still frame duration should be! The simlarly named pref in the old FCP worked as expected. If this one is working as designed, I need to understand the design a little better and would love more tips.

Thanks for the feedback menu item tip. I'll send a note.

Cheers

When you click on a still in the browser it makes a selection. The duration of that selection is set by the editing preference in the first tab of preferences.

In legacy FCP it was an importing preference, in FCPX it's an editing preference.

ok! Got it to work. unfortunately, it only works on single clips, by selecting the clip, then clicking on the clip movie, then dragging the named clip (because a single frame is too small to grab in a 10 second view). Without clicking on the movie, I still get a 10 second clip in the timeline - which does seem like a bug because it's not consistent design. Probably really handy if you are only using stills for titles, but pretty useless for animation (unless you could just do the drag and drop with a sequence and every frame would get the duration).

thanks - sent in a feature request.

Use the keyboard shortcut rather than trying to drag.

sorry if I'm being annoying, but Q or W or E or D still does 10 seconds. Which keyboard shortcut are you referring to?

many thanks for helping out on this.

You make the selection by clicking and then use the shortcut to edit it rather than trying to drag it, which is just about impossible because the selection is so small.

Selections are persistent so you can make multiple selections and use the shortcut.

All in all processing outside of FCP is much better as it lets you fix the frame rate and creates a piece of high res video that doesn't need to be rendered.