relinking an image sequence?

[grahamdunn]

Hi all,
I have a jpeg sequence of 3000 stills that was edited down to 20 seconds or so. The project was archived a while ago, but I'm bringing it back.

I loaded an OMF with Automatic Duck (the original project was done in AVID). The huge image sequence is called jpeg0001.jpeg or something like that because AVID loads an image sequence as one clip and calls it by the first image in the sequence.

I am trying to reconnect in FCP but when I relink to jpeg0001.jpeg it is of course linked only to the first image. Relinking to the whole folder of images doesn't work either because FCP reads it only as wanting jpeg0001.jpeg and not the whole sequence. Is there a way to relink or do I have to process the whole sequence out as a Quicktime? Thank you!

 

[AwakenedFilms]

I wonder if you can just make the image sequence with Quicktime Pro. Then import it to FCP.


J

 

[stuckfootage]

Here are three ways to deal with image sequences:

In FCP, just choose import folder instead of import file.
Then drag the folder onto a sequence, select all clips,
and control click to set duration to one frame for each clip.
The sequence plays normally. You could then nest the
sequence to have a single "clip".

BTW, if you had Shake you could just open it.

Using Quicktime, you can open an image sequence (shift-command-O)
and select the first frame. Set the fps as desired, and you get a movie,
one image per frame, ready to save and then import into FCP.

 

[grahamdunn]

Thanks for the replies! What I did was just transcode the sequence to a Quicktime movie (and so far so good). I can definitely import the image sequence into FCP, it's just that the EDL I'm relinking to is from AVID and our Adrenaline doesn't just link to media like FCP does, it ingests it and transcodes it to a format it likes. Thus the image sequence essentially became one file to AVID, so FCP is looking for a single file during relink also. I can't relink to a sequence of images, only the first single file. Relinking to the whole folder just connects the first image in the folder.

I can't relink to a FCP sequence can I? That would work if I imported the images and then relinked to that timeline in FCP, but I don't know if that's possible?