Final cut Help

[faustfire]

Multimedia: Again, you waste alot of space by pushing your own agenda. You completely wasted this guy's time. Just plug your schtick once, no need to beat someone over the head with it.

Seriously, just like that stupid one chip camera he's been pushing. Better of with a three chip SD cam.

 

[chriscorbin]

As I said, FCP does not see AppleScript or Automator and vice versa. I don't know if the latest version supports this. You could try it with a simple script and see if it works. It would be nice if scripting worked, but editors don't use them so they haven't complained enough about it to Apple...I assume.

How many stills do you plan to use? It's not hard nor does it take much time to do what you're trying to do. You can import all stills in one try, load into the sequence in one try, and apply the same transition to all stills in one try.

I plan to use about 175 stills and apple tech suppourt says that applescript WILL WORK with FCP

 

[LethalWolfe]

I plan to use about 175 stills and apple tech suppourt says that applescript WILL WORK with FCP

Either the tech misunderstood what you were asking, or was mistaken because you can't use an applescript inside FCP.

Try this though. In the settings (I forget exactly where) you can set the default length for still images. So set that to whatever length you want and import all the images. High-light all the images in FCP's browser window then drag them into the timeline. All of the images will be copied end-to-end into the timeline. Now all you have to do is add the transition. That's pretty easy too unless you want to mix up what transition you want to use. If you want to use the same transition just apply it to the first edit, then select the transition, hit command-c to copy it, hit the "down" arrow key to proceed to the next edit point, click on the edit point w/your mouse (to select it) then hit command-v to paste the transition.

If you want the stills to appear in a particular order you'll want to organize that before you import into FCP. I'd suggest just adding a numerical prefix to the existing file name (ex. 001_Bob, 002_birthday, 003_newcar). You'll want to use three digit numbering since you'll be going into the hundreds.


Lethal

 

[chriscorbin]

Either the tech misunderstood what you were asking, or was mistaken because you can't use an applescript inside FCP.

Try this though. In the settings (I forget exactly where) you can set the default length for still images. So set that to whatever length you want and import all the images. High-light all the images in FCP's browser window then drag them into the timeline. All of the images will be copied end-to-end into the timeline. Now all you have to do is add the transition. That's pretty easy too unless you want to mix up what transition you want to use. If you want to use the same transition just apply it to the first edit, then select the transition, hit command-c to copy it, hit the "down" arrow key to proceed to the next edit point, click on the edit point w/your mouse (to select it) then hit command-v to paste the transition.

If you want the stills to appear in a particular order you'll want to organize that before you import into FCP. I'd suggest just adding a numerical prefix to the existing file name (ex. 001_Bob, 002_birthday, 003_newcar). You'll want to use three digit numbering since you'll be going into the hundreds.


Lethal

I've tried this and it will not work. am i doing something wrong? here is a shot of what i changed
http://att.macrumors.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=70496&stc=1&d=1174355792

 

[puckhead193]

why not do it in iphoto? A few clicks and bam it done

 

[chriscorbin]

why not do it in iphoto? A few clicks and bam it done

what i want to cahange the default time for imported Stills in FINAL CUT what does iPhoto have to do with anything

 

[theWholeTruth]

I've tried this and it will not work. am i doing something wrong? here is a shot of what i changed

No, you are doing nothing wrong. What you are trying to change only changes the duration of freeze frames made from a video clip. I've never tried to change the default import length, which I think is 2minutes, but I'm fairly sure there is no way to change that length. Maybe LethalWolfe was thinking of AVID.

 

[Multimedia]

You Can Change The Length Of Each Still's Duration

No, you are doing nothing wrong. What you are trying to change only changes the duration of freeze frames made from a video clip. I've never tried to change the default import length, which I think is 2minutes, but I'm fairly sure there is no way to change that length. Maybe LethalWolfe was thinking of AVID.

Yes you can. All you have to do is change the duration parameter to what you want before doing the import(s).

 

[theWholeTruth]

Yes you can. All you have to do is change the duration parameter to what you want before doing the import(s). Plus you can change the duration in the timeline after they are in there by simply draging right or left for more or less time.

No, FCP has a set default of 2min. What happens when you change the duration is that the still is given an I/O point of that amount. So if you enter a duration of 10 seconds, your still's length is 2min. 10 sec. with an I/O of 10 sec. But I guess this would be helpful to the OP since he wouldn't need to set I/O points of all those stills.

 

[LethalWolfe]

So if you enter a duration of 10 seconds, your still's length is 2min. 10 sec. with an I/O of 10 sec. But I guess this would be helpful to the OP since he wouldn't need to set I/O points of all those stills.

Correct. The OP sets the duration to what he wants the pix to be (4sec going by his above post), imports them, selects them all in the browser, drags the whole bunch over to the timeline and "bam" 175 photos laid end-to-end in the timeline w/a duration of 4 seconds.

In my previous post I misspoke when I said the length of the stills, I should have said the duration of the I/O point on the stills. In my head I was thinking of Final Cut, but my hands typed Avid.


Lethal

 

[Multimedia]

How To Import Stills At Different Durations

Open User Preferences:
Choose Edit Pane
In the "Still/Freeze Duration" time box default is 10 seconds Zero Frames NOT 10 minutes. The last two digits are FRAMES preceeded by seconds preceded by minutes.

You can put your curser in there and make it any other time you want. Whatever numbers you put in there is the duration that will be assigned to whatever stills you import next.

So group your stills composed in Photoshop, according to the many tutorials on how to use Photoshop to prepare video stills, by the time you plan on them being in your video. Then import each group according to the different duration settings you make following the above directions before each set of importations.

 

[chriscorbin]

got it working thanks for the help