Photoshop sequence to iMovie

I have a series of 400 still images taken from a video camera which I have saved as individual TIFFs (I will convert to JPEG)- I am doing some work on these images in Pshop - adding lights and lighting effects and would then like to import them back into iMovie and run as a movie sequence again. However when I try to import the pix I keep getting a default "hold" on each frame and I can't seem to get the duration down to one frame ie one twety-fifth of a second.
Get the feeling I'm being dumb and ignoring something fundamental here !
Your expert thoughts would be most appreciated

You can open an image sequence like that in QuickTime Player Pro via File/Open Image Sequence... Just take care that the files are named so that they open in the correct order and that you import them with the desired frame rate (PAL 25 fps and NTSC 29.97 fps).
Then export as DV stream (NTSC or PAL).
You can also do the opposite by exporting a .dv clip as an image sequence so you can edit individual frames in another app.
If you create images from scratch in an image editing app, then it is best to create them as PAL 720x576 or NTSC 720x480 so there is no scaling needed when converting them to .dv. You may use a non-square pixel aspect ratio in the editing app so you see the same aspect ratio as is the end result when viewed on a TV with rectangular pixels.

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You didn't say but I'm assuming you're working in DV NTSC.
Your PSD sequence is much larger, and the wrong aspect ratio, compared to your video. It bears no resemblance to it. You're make a very large sequences, making your animation in it, and placing in inside a much smaller sequence. The two don't match at all. Fit to window is not relevant. The PSD window is based on an image 1150x1718, and that's the Canvas the PSD sequence uses. Your edited sequence is 720X480 and that's its Canvas size. Fit to window just means make the Canvas display fit the size of the window you've create for it in the application. It doe not scale the images to fit the Canvas.
I don't know exactly what you're doing, but it would be easier for you if you made the images the right size in Photoshop to start with. Or you could copy and paste from inside the PSD sequence into the edited sequence, which will automatically scale the material to fit the window, and you can animate the layers in the edited sequence. This may or may not work for you depending on your material.

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Tell me it ain't so!
I wish I could. The research you've done is correct.
Wether you copy and paste or rebuild the Project from the other computer, you're going to need to get your Evnets copied from the other computer.
The Prjoject files only contain pointer back to the original media.
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Tis a brand new Mac. We didn't update so we don't have the older version.
I see.
I know that QuickTime Pro can do it.
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Not sure about the regular QuickTime Player 7
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http://www.squared5.com/svideo/mpeg-streamclip-mac.html
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When I export a still frame as a pict file from iMovie and then edit that still frame in photoshop (resaved as a pict file), the file imports back into iMovie resized. It enlarges a bit more than the previous still frame. Does anyone know how to avoid this resize issue?
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I am not at home now to verify or play with it first hand, but if I was to take a guess it would probably be because of the 640 vs. 720 conversion iMovie does behind the scenes with the horizontal pixels. See TVs use rectangular pixels while computers use square pixels. TV pixels are slightly taller than wide or put another way, the pixels are thinner than on a computer. So 720 thin TV pixels equal about 640 square computer pixels. What iMovie does is it will show you everything on your screen as 640 horizontal pixels so everything looks correct (height to width ratio looks right and nothing is stretched or squished), but really everything in iMovie is 720 pixels wide because that is the format needed for standard TV sets.
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However if it all sounds correct above, then the solution is after you open the file in Photoshop, resize it and this is one of those rare times where you actually want to UNCHECK the box that keeps the ratio of the photo the same. So now you tell it to resize from 720 to 640 but not to change the 480 dimension. Your photo should now look normal (not stretched out) and after editing, saving, and re-importing to iMovie should look correct.
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What you must do, unfortunately is tweak the Ken Burns effect 'zoom' and 'alignment' settings to situate your images properly.
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Hi,
i'm trying to create an animation in photoshop. It's a sort of spiral shape that appears bit by bit.
I'm drawing different frames, but each frame is build onto the previous frame. So i don't have to redraw to part that came before the new part:
So first i drew all the different frames (yes they have transparent backgrounds). Then I selected all layers and went to window > animation.Here I made frames from all the layers and converted it to a frame animation. here I selected all frames and selected " do not dispose" because I want all the previous frames to stay visible when a new frame appears.
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