Importing jpeg frames to timeline as single frames

How do i import images as single frames on the timeline? instead of the usual length. It's for a kind of stop motion.
Many Thanks
Ollie

What you want to do is use an image sequence. Your images should all sit in one folder, and be named sequentially: "movie0001.jpg," "movie0002.jpg" and so on...
Now as far as importing is concerned, I don't know if FCE supports importing an image sequence directly, but I do know Quicktime does (however, I think its a Quicktime Pro feature only). Go to File -> Open Image Sequence, and select the first image in the seqeunce and click Open. Quicktime will then read every sequentally named file in the folder, and load it into a movie. You can then save this movie in whatever format you like, and import it into FCE.

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The title says it all really. Was wondering if there's a simpler interface to implement which does not contain video or audio, but just a still frame image.
I don't care about exporting this format from Premiere, just being able to read a single frame or a sequence of frames to be used as footage.

Hi Rotem,
A standard importer plug-in is the way to go for a still image importer. You could start from SDK_File_Import in the SDK. There is also a WebM plug-in on GitHub:
fnordware/AdobeWebM · GitHub

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When I put in a scroll in fcx, I get a single frame of the scroll flashing on the screen about a second or two before the scroll appears. There is nothing on the timeline and this only appears on the quicktime or dvd. Any thoughts?

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Premiere Pro CC 'single frame' export squashes aspect ratio

Hi,
When I used the single frame export button to export a single frame from my timeline, the 16:9 ratio gets squashed in.
The image has a play button graphic on it and that should be round but it comes out oval.
When I import the image into Photoshop, it looks normal 16:9 but when I save it as a jpeg and open it up, it's still squashed.
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Thanks Jim for your quick reply. I am still wondeirng if there is a better way. The footage I am editing is 1920 x 1080 DSLR footage. Anytime I export a frame from Fnal Cut Pro it does it fine. I moved over to Adobe recently and I'm suprised that it's not working. I wondered whether there was a way to change my export settings so that it exports with square pixels from Premiere Pro. Meanwhile I will try to follow your instructions re square pixles and photoshop.

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It works now, you need to go back to share and a new option is available that was created by the step you mentioned, listed as share frame one -- when selected, this allows for exporting the frame to the desktop!
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- Specific ranges of frames within a specific symbol?
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It seems that every Flash file exports the main timeline in its entirety.
Is there a way to choose to export jpeg sequences, mov's, and swf's of:
- Specific ranges of frames
- Specific timelines within a symbol only?
- Specific ranges of frames within a specific symbol?
- Specific layers of specific timelines within specific symbols?
This flexibility would be great but I'm not sure if there's a way to do it. It seems like a pretty basic feature. Anyone?
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- I make a file named BALLBOUNCE.FLA
- I have created a graphic symbol called "BOUNCE1" of a ball bouncing. 1 bounce. 1 single cycle.
- In the main timeline I put BOUNCE1 on the stage, then tween that cycling ball across the stage so that the same bounce is used 25 times, moving slowly across the stage.
- For reason X, I decide that I need to export JUST the frames inside that symbol as a SWF. One bounce cycle within the graphic.
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This is I got when google it:
you mean your trying to export a flash animation as an avi and your using movieclips???
if this is your case i have a very simple solution export it as a swf, now import that swf into a new file and export it as an avi all should be good.
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How do I export a file to mov? I always get just a single frame.

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Hopefully I can explain this without going into too much detail...
I have an project (about 30" long)... There are a few layers to it... I added new footage to a specific part of my project. But the footage drops a single frame at a particular part of my timeline...
I added an image mask and noticed this. So I deleted the image mask, same deal, it drops a frame just at a certain point in my animation. I deleted the footage and re-imported it. I checked the footage in Quicktime, looks fine, no dropped frame)...
I checked each layer, everything seems to be in working order... No accidentally opacity key frames or anything.
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I've experienced the same thing sometime long in the past,
and I probably did a frame by frame Print Screen to get around it.
If it's single frame swf, then that's probably all you're going to
get is one frame as an output.
You may be able to incorporate a jpeg encoder of some sort to
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Hi,
Can someone tell me how i can position two panels in a single frame using the BorderLayout class.
I have included my code below. When it is run it shows two JPanels positioned at the top and the bottom, a text area to the right, a panel in the center and a panel on the left. I want to get the panel on the left - the yellow panel - to be positioned in the lower third of the center panel. I have tried to use the BorderLayout.SOUTH statement - but this positions the panel across the very bottom which causes the bottom JPanel and part of the text area to disappear.
Can anyone help with this please???
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import javax.swing.*;
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
public class Panels extends JFrame implements ActionListener
     private TopPanel topPanel;
     private BottomPanel bottomPanel;
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     private JButton close;
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     {closeClicked = true;
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One solution would be to create a new panel, bothPanels and adding the two panels that you need to this panel.
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hth

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