Final Cut,

Setting up Final Cut to revolve around one specific folder. Video projects can often get rather complicated - if everything stays in one folder the whole process becomes a lot easier.

Before we start working on the project, 'Save Project As' to ensure everything stays conformed.

2 video tracks, 4 audio tracks. Usually work with double the audio tracks - 2 audio to 1 video.

After converting the browser window to a list format, set the information to display, 'Frame size', 'Vid rate' and 'Compressor'

Drag the first image to the video track, it displays as a large block. As we start to drag more images in, 'snapping' comes into effect enabling us to not have any gaps or overlaps throughout our sequence.

Images can have an infinite duration on screen, given this, we can have images that last for various amounts of time by resizing each image in the video track...

After importing a whole folder of images, they all appear in the track I chose. From then, pressing 'Shift Z' fits them all on screen instantly, saving scrolling back and forth...

Changing the duration of each image...

To avoid changes within your sequence, it is a simple case of FILE>NEW>SEQUENCE once this has been created 'sequence 2', drag the first sequence from the browser into 'sequence 2' in the track. This works with the sequence as one clip opposed to a series of images.

Dragging the sequence in in this way, will always add 2 audio tracks regardless of having audio linked or not.


ADDING TEXT.

Text works in the same way as an image.

Double click the text, it appears in the timeline, the control tab at the top of the viewer allows us to change the text..

Overlaying text and image...