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August 8th, 2008, 04:51 PM
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Working with Time Lapse Stills
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I have been doing some time lapse photography and dragging the stills from the dslr camera into FCP as a numbered sequence, with each still lasting 1 frame. One weird thing is that when I drag the stills (about 460) into my ProRes422 timeline, the first 150 are render-status green and the rest are red (in need of render). My question is why would some be "previewable" and some not?
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August 8th, 2008, 06:36 PM
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I have a similar problem when I import a bunch of stills as animation (like from the original jump backs) in a DV timeline. I think it has to do with a cache the FCP keeps for stills. I tried adjusting the cache, but I just made it worse.
My solution is to export the timeline as a movie and import it back.
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August 8th, 2008, 06:55 PM
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The best way to handle timelapse stills is to use Quicktime Player Pro and "Open Image Sequence."
Then just save it as a quicktime (the original format and frame size will be maintained) and just drag into FCP.
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August 8th, 2008, 07:01 PM
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I'll use QT Pro in the future....
In the mean time, I tried one today (there were no clouds so it isnt very interesting) and the sky came out all patchy and blotchy: www.vimeo.com/1494210 Why does it look like that? It looks good in FCP... -Steve
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August 11th, 2008, 02:54 AM
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Thanks Liam,
Is there a way I can get around that? Increase the bitrate maybe? -Steve
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all codecs that use GOPs suffer to some degree from this time of problem, just look at a fade to black on a DVD. Have a look at my minireel on Vimeo, I used the H264 codec at about 70% quality; http://www.vimeo.com/1297303 There are quite a few timelapse shots on it and you'll see you can get rid of that banding. Last edited by Liam Hall; August 12th, 2008 at 04:40 AM. Reason: added some words:) |
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