Single image sequence generation. ?

Hello, ..
Essentially, I'm looking to find the best solution, to the idea of building sequences where and with using - importing, different sequencial, single images.
— To be clearer perhaps, I'm a Weather student / enthusiast, and this would be toward generating a sequence / different sequences .. of hourly weather-satellite obtained images.
To this point, or up until very recently, and in fact for several years previous, I have - in fact, been able to do this fairly simply, with using an older version of QuickTime (older logo, I think that main version offered still, through "Tiger".) and, with once I've dropped a first or more initial image more in particular, into the application, then merely dragging and dropping whichever others into its main viewer-window, checking save, and naming the file.
— Perhaps, unorthodox. But, it's worked just fine for the idea.
— And, of course, this idea can't be used with the newer version/s of QuickTime.
"very recently": .... Today, and with having been using this method of "simple sequence" generation, together with older version of QuickTime, on my relatively new "iMac", and running Snow Leopard, Mac OS X v. 10.6.8 - all up to date, ....
.. I've found that I'm no longer able to access the older version of the application. (I think this advent, might be related to a "MacKeeper" clean-up that I did recently. ....)
— In fact, the main reason that I can't say more exactly, which version it is - or was, in fact.
Beyond this question more general, I'm thinking — (Something, I think that I'd read at one point in the past.) — that I can in fact do what I've suggested above, with / within QuickTime Pro.
Hope this is clear - at all.
Any help. ?
Appreciate your response and time.

Opening an "image sequence" (folder of sequentially named same dimension files) is a feature found only in QuickTime Player Pro.
Beginning with Snow Leopard the OS includes QuickTime Player X (in Lion it is 10.1) in the Applications folder and QuickTime 7.6.6 is moved to the Utilities folder.
QuickTime X has its own feature set but can't be upgraded to "Pro".

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