Importing Targa Sequence as a single unit?
by MarcPost
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Mar 1, 2006 at 9:34:39 pm
We have just installed a Final Cut 5 system after years of working in Smoke* and are having trouble importing a Targa sequence from 3D Studio Max into Final Cut. It imports them as single files with a default length of 10 seconds each. It would take much too long to fix each one and then drop them on the timeline. We would like to avoid turning them into a Quicktime if possible, even though Quicktime recognizes them as a single unit. Is there an easy solution?
Re: Importing Targa Sequence as a single unit? by Leigh Thomas on Mar 1, 2006 at 9:53:53 pm
Marc,
Final Cut won't import them as a single file like After Effects and Quicktime - however...
Go to File - User Preferences and select the Editing tab. Change the Still/Freeze Duration to 1 frame (00:00:00:01). Drag the folder that has the Targa Sequence into a bin then drag that whole folder into a sequence. Depending on how long your targa sequence is, you still may want to make a movie from it to avoid possible dropped frames on playback.
