Importing Stills into Motion

I'm trying to import stills into motion but it's grouping some of them together as image sequences. How can stop Motion from detecting them as sequences, other than renaming them.

There's a button at the bottom right of the File Browser next to the "new folder" button. Click that to toggle off "group as image sequences".
Andy

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Hello everyone,
I have tried searching for a bit, but time is of the absolute essence. I am down to the wire on a project, and need to do some finishing things.
What I need to do is to import still images (from DSLR) into an HD timeline. I am working in an HDV 1080i60 sequence at 29.97 fps. Here is what I am doing...
- Import the particular image
- Everything looks fine in the viewer when I double click on it
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I have tried exporting the video, thinking that it might just be in the canvas, but that didn't fix anything.
So, it is not a problem with rendering, as some have said where I have searched... It could be a problem with size, but I am not sure.
If anyone knows anything, please post in here or PM me asap. Thank you for your help in advance.
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When you load an image or clip from the Browser into the Viewer, it is displayed at it's native resolution. But once you place it in the Timeline, it displays at the FCP Sequence resolution. Also note that the image will need to be rendered FULLY before viewing. Go to the Sequence->Render menus and make sure all render types are checked ... especially FULL.
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I have just started a new project in FCP7 and I am importing stills from photoshop (tiffs) Its for the opening sequence and they need to move as in key framing.I notice that when I view them on my monitor at 100% I see a jagged line as in interlacing. My questions are...
1. What size do I import the stills (Im working in HD and my footage later will be PAL)
2.How do I remove the interlacing...I tried de-interlacing but the images blur too much)
3.These stills are illustration images not photos and have very hard edges
Im a little new to all this....Someone told me to change my settings to proggresive (how and where do I do this?)
Any help would be great....Im good at making the film I just such at the technical stuff...thanks in advance..philip

Hard to give an answer without some background. Decisions about sequence settings depend on what yours or your client's objectives are for the movie. Where and how is it going to be shown? What other kinds of material will be edited into the movie? Has it been shot yet? Will it all be from the same kind of camera – or in a common format?
Whatever the answers to those questions leads you, select the easy setup that comes the closest to what you need. Take a video clip that has been shot at the desired format and make that the first thing that you edit into your timeline, If FCP asks you whether you want to have the sequence match the clip, say yes.
FCP has to turn whatever stills you give it into clips. If they are too large and there are too many of them your editing experience can be a real chore. If there are no keyframed moves, bring them into FCP the same size as your sequence resolution. For those that are keyframed, re-sizing in PS to about 150% is a good choice. Avoid going over 4K on either axis.
Undoubtedly, they'll look better – especially with keyframed moves – if they're in a progressive sequence. If you need your movie to be interlaced, wait until you export it and are able to judge it however you intend to display it (Web, TV, projector, whatever). If you then decide it needs de-interlacing, do that in Compressor (or maybe JES De-interlacer).
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In about CS5 (IIRC), a Bug developed, where if there was a very tiny Layer in a Layered PSD, there would be an issue Importing. I had assumed that that had been fixed, but could be wrong. Check your PSD, and look carefully in the Layers Pallet for some very small Layer. If so, can you Merge Visible (just poke OUT the "eyeball" in any Layer, that you do not want affected)?
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Hello,
I came across the following troubling language in a review of one of Steven Hullfish's books on Color Correction:
"I also felt as though the author neglected to give ICC profiles enough attention.
Granted, they are seldom used in pure video workflows, but there are an awful lot of folks out there compositing still images into video content who need to know how to soft-proof against the right destination space in Photoshop so they aren't surprised by the color shifts they see in their ICC-unaware video software. Surely that should merit a pull-quote of its own somewhere."
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Putting Stills into Motion

Hi,
I have 8 still photos I want to put in motion (I am using FCP7 for that).... to be exact, move them from -400 to +400.
I put a transition between the shots to make them look smooth.
1 problem: when I run them, they jump a little.... is there a way to smoothen them out?
I tried to lower the speed in >Modify>Change Speed set to 50%, they even jigger more.
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