Compositing image sequences

[bojo5150]

I'm working on an animation and I broke it into two passes because I had to much geometry to render it in one. One has houses, fences, street, etc.. and the other has trees, shrubs, cars, etc... Well I have all my .TGA's rendered out but I don't know how to composite them together. I thought I could use Premire. It does work except it brings in all the frames at 00.00.05.00 for it's speed/duration. I need it to be 00.00.00.01 but it doesn't let you select all the frames in the timeline at once and change it's speed/duration. Can someone tell me how to do this or tell me another program that can? Unfortunitely I don't have combustion. Is there anything else?

[RErender]

You can use video post in Max

or http://www.debugmode.com/wax/ actually works pretty good as a standalone

[dapeter]

I don't have a current copy of Premiere here with me, but in the version I do have there's a setting under "preferences" that asks the framerate to set image sequences.

[bojo5150]

ok, I went into Max's video post and inserted both image sequences. I see that there is a filter effect with alpha channel but I can't seem to get it to work. Can you tell me the procedure I need to go through?

[Syclone1]

I just use Quicktime Pro to assemble the clips then comp in Vegas, you can maintain the alphas so you can take the "uncompressed" QT files into your favorite editor and comp them together that way.

-dave

[percydaman]

ive had issues with importing frame sequences in vegas...it just takes forever..... we do use vegas for compressing the final animtion though...does good job.

[RErender]

bojo video post sux, I'd download that Wax proggie, it really does work.

[dapeter]

Are you importing the frame sequences as sequences or individually? If you import them as sequences, on the timeline you don't see each individual frame, only the group of them preset at the project framerate. This should work as long as the images are sequentially numbered. I just tested it here on my Premiere 5.1, and it works fine - the sequence imported at 29.97 frames per second.

In 5.1, when importing the sequence I have to check the box "Numbered Stills" to get it to import the still sequence as footage.

[bojo5150]

Thanks for all the replies! I ended up using premire and checking numbered stills and adjusting it's duration. Before I was selecting all the images and dragging them into the timeline creating 1,000+ images that would have needed to be adjusted one by one.