From the course: Creating Time-Lapse Video

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Refining the duration and frame rate of a time-lapse sequence with Apple Final Cut Pro X

Refining the duration and frame rate of a time-lapse sequence with Apple Final Cut Pro X

From the course: Creating Time-Lapse Video

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Refining the duration and frame rate of a time-lapse sequence with Apple Final Cut Pro X

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- Once you've imported all the media, you're going to need to assign a frame rate. Now, the thing is, you don't actually have a movie clip here. What you have is a bunch of stills but you're going to add all those stills into your sequence and then using that, you can basically decide how you want to re-time them. What essentially happens here is you drop them all into the project or sequence and set a new duration. So what I'll do is select all of those clips and drag them into the timeline. You'll notice that it assigns a duration to each. In this case, each frame is currently up for 10 seconds. That's probably the slowest moving time-lapse in the world that you could possibly want. So what we need to do is actually adjust the duration. Select all your frames by pressing Command + A, then press Control + D for duration, or go to the Modify menu, and choose to change duration. Now what I'm going to do is enter in…

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