Image sequences – Apple Motion 3 User Manual
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Chapter 2
Creating and Managing Projects
The image looks identical to an image that is scaled on import. However, its resolution
has been changed so that the image fits the Canvas. To observe that the resolution of
the image has changed, select the image file in the Media tab of the Project pane, and
then display the Media tab Inspector. The Fixed Width and Fixed Height parameters
display the new resolution of the imported image.
Still Image Duration
When you first import a still image into your project, the image assumes a duration
equal to the current duration of your project. Increasing the duration of your project
does not automatically increase the duration of an image that’s already been imported.
Still images have infinite duration in Motion, so you can stretch them out in the
Timeline to be as long as you need. For more information about working with objects
in the Timeline, see “
Image Sequences
Numbered image sequences store video clips as individual still image files. Each image
file has a number in the filename that indicates where it fits into the sequence. In a
film clip that’s been digitally scanned, each file represents a single frame. In a video
clip that’s been converted to an image sequence, each file contains both fields of a
single video frame, with the upper and lower lines of the image saved together. Image
sequences use the same variety of file formats as still image files. Some of the most
popular formats for saving image sequences are: SGI, BMP, JPEG, TIFF, and TGA. Like
still image formats, many of these support alpha channels, which are automatically
used by Motion.
The original image resolution is changed
so the image fits the Canvas.