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Steve Grisetti wrote on 2/23/2004, 2:28 PM
I"m not quite sure what you're asking but...

If you're asking if there is a way to grab a whole bunch of clips and have them drop onto the timeline in a pre-set order then, yes, that's an easy one.

If you grab a bunch of clips, stills or whatever from the Media Pool, they load onto the timeline (as in the Media Pool) in alpha-numeric order. So, if you name them in the order you want them to appear, it should be simply to load them onto the timeline as a batch.

If that's what you're asking...
stefkeB wrote on 2/24/2004, 4:25 AM
Can you set the length of these clips to one frame as well?

E.g. I render out an animation of some 3D-model, not to an AVI-file, but to a sequence of TIFF-files. I want to load this sequense as a whole and be able to use it as a regular clip. It's a simple task in most (expensive) video-editing software (render once and only choose codec when converting to a final file).

If I can load all these images (that are named in order) as single frames and group them, then this would work for me.
Steve Grisetti wrote on 2/24/2004, 6:50 AM
Okay, I think I see what you're doing. You want to bring in a series of stills as one-second frames in a movie, right? If so, this is how.

1) Name each frame so that they will load in alpha-numeric order.

2) Set the Internal Options to default your stills at one second. Hold down your shift key and open Options/Preferences. This will reveal in Internal tab. Find the default still length setting. It's set by default at 5 seconds -- which shows up at like 50000000 I think. Change the 5 to a 1 so that it instead shows 10000000.

3) Now simply drag the whole batch of frames from the Media Pool to the timeline. They'll come in in alpha-numeric order, one second each.

Does that make it so?
ADinelt wrote on 2/24/2004, 9:31 AM
If you want to do actual single frame animation, do what grisetti suggests, but uset a lower number for the default still length setting. You can get it down to where each image imported into the timeline will be one frame in length.

Check out this post for settings to use for single frames...

http://mediasoftware.sonypictures.com/forums/ShowMessage.asp?ForumID=12&MessageID=243432

Thanks...
Al