Batch Export Stills from Timeline?

Hi

I remember reading something about this somewhere.

Can anyone guide on how to automate an export of stills from all the clips in my sequence?

Thanks

Are you talking about an image sequence?

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There may be third party solutions for this. The simplest way is probably to make freeze frames of the images you want to represent each clip and put them in a bin. Then do a batch export of the bin.

>The simplest way is probably to make freeze frames of the images you want to represent each
>clip and put them in a bin.

I do this too. Just make sure the freeze frames are properly named before exporting.



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Cool, thanks.


One more thing, I'm on FCP 7 and in the videos on apple's site there seems to be overlays of the marker notes on the Canvas but I can't seem to get any of these overlays when I'm working. I'm marking bits that need foley etc. Any solution?

View - Show Overlays.


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I'd already tried that but the marker notes wouldn't show up

Is the playhead sitting on the marker?

Yep, no idea why they won't show up.

Something new in FCP7-- try Edit>Project Properties and see that Marker Visibility is enabled for all Marker types. Worth checking.

And if you prefer to export frame dumps from your timeline as you go, try the Neotron Exportobot, which requires Quickeys and a tweak to its Click location step wthin the macro tailored to your Export dialog. You just set this once.

Download the macro at my website homepage. Download a free trial of Quickeys at www.startly.com.

I like marking a bunch of stills on the fly, and the QuicKeys Exportobot then detects each Marker and exports the still frame beneath it.

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Batch Exporting Freeze frames has problems.

when you make a freeze, it contains the TC (timecode) either of the clip or the sequence.
Batch Export chokes on the colons in the TC.

i prefer making subclips to batch export as still images.
so i'd suggest you go thru your timeline,
f to match frame into the viewer when you see a frame you like,
mark in / out
make sub (Apple u)

sub appears in browser ready for you to rename.


nick

Thanks all.

Okay, got the markers working in the canvas, seemingly the notes only show up for ones marked onto the Sequence rather than one for clips, so I'll just mark the sequence from now on.

> seemingly the notes only show up for ones marked onto the Sequence rather than one for clips

Sequence markers show in the Canvas overlays, clip markers show in the Viewer overlays.


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