Import sequential tiffs files

Hi all,
This is my first post on this site, being fairly new to FCP,
Having expanded to FCP after many years as an Avid editor.
Recently I was stumped when presented with a folder containing 24 sequentially names giffs each with an alpha channel.
I assumed it would be no problem importing in to FCP as a 1 second video file with alpha channel, as is easy with an Avid.
However I can find now way of doing this and no mention any were in the FCP help files or manuals,
Any Ideas would be appreciated.
Many thanks
Steve.

Welcome to the Forum, Steve!
If you want your imported images to appear in the timeline in numerical order, be sure to number them in a way that your Mac can put them in the order you want. Start with 001 etc if you have less than a thousand.
In FCP go to:
User Preferences > Editing Tab then change the default Still / Freeze Duration to whatever you want.
Check in your Finder folder that the images are ordered correctly, then import into the FCP Browser. Once in the FCP Browser, you can select all the images and drag them to the Timeline. Alternatively, you can Import the Finder Folder to your FCP Browser, then select it and press Apple+A .
Either way, all the images in will appear in the timeline in the correct order.
Make sure the images are RGB – not CMYK format.
Andy
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