How do I import a png sequence?

In the Vimeo video he put his on a seperate "track" to create a transparency. Yes you can do that in FCP X.

If you just want to put a title using a lower third, drag and attach it over or under (hey, experiment) your image sequece track, select it make adjustment in the Inspector, adjust opacity as needed - or not. Did you pause the Vimeo video and catch his import and project settings? See how he selected all & changed the duration?

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While you can certainly do as is described in the video, it is a bit unwieldy to work with a lot of still images.

To my mind, a much neater workflow is to convert the image sequence to a movie file beforehand. You can do this and preserve transparency, too.

Two programs that can very easily open an image sequence and convert it to a quicktime movie are Motion 5, and Quicktime Player 7. Make sure that you save the movie in a codec that handles transparency - ProRes 4444 or Animation codec. Then just import the resulting movie to FCP X.

If you need to edit the text, you should create a template in Motion.

Or only import the graphics (without text) and add a text layer in FCPX.

Or bring the files in as PS layers.

Interesting discussion over in the Compressor forum where we were surprised to discover that Compressor will not preserve the alpha channel for an image sequence exported to Pro Res 4444 or Animation. As Luis said, Motion does this perfectly well – as does Quick Time Pro.

Russ

I am working on a similar project. This worked for me.

-once all png sequences are imported select them

-do ctrl + D and change duration to 1 (for 1 frame)

-Right click and make a new compound clip

This allowed me to make changes to one clip vs 2000 plus clips and saved the transparency qualities. I can change color/size pretty much anything I could do to the single png.

I hope this helps.