Using motion to export image sequences to quicktime
by Michael Black FCP
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Feb 6, 2008 at 11:04:48 pm
Either I'm missing something or Apple has clearly overlooked a key feature of an online (or at least online-capable) video editing system.
I'm working on an animated project. For our final delivery we are getting image sequences for the company that is doing the final online (using a high-end system). However, we want to check the image sequences against our offline animated quicktimes which we have been editing with.
The issue is, when this process picks up we will be getting at least 50 shots a day as image sequences. Why is it that I can import image sequences in quicktime and export them from there, but I can't import them at all in FCP? I discovered that Motion can import them, but there is no real option for a batch export, nor can I just bounce them over to FCP.
Short of purchasing after effects, how can I say, import fifty image sequences, then batch export them all into quicktimes with them maintaining the complex file names and all that more or less automatically (IE, without having to do it each and every time?) You can't can you?
Re: Using motion to export image sequences to quicktime by Michael Black FCP on Feb 6, 2008 at 11:29:17 pm
I agree that it's odd. Ideally, I should be able to import image sequences into FCP and it's not like the technology is beyond its capabilities, especially since Motion recognizes them so easily. At the very least, I should be able to bounce them over to FCP via Motion somehow, without having to render hundreds of quicktimes that will only serve to fill up my hard drive even further.
I mean, if you're going to be taken seriously as an online contender, why can't you simply import an image sequence?
