Putting Pictures in to Final Cut Pro.

To edit your pictures in to a movie, you first have to open Final Cut Pro.

You then open the images in the folder where they are located on the Hard Drive or computer and select them all by pressing the 'Apple sign' (on a Mac) and 'a'.

You can then drag and drop them in to the sequence box in Final Cut and they will all appear as separate images ready to be put in to the timeline. Select all of the images again the same as before and drag them to th beginning of the timeline for images and drop them in to place.

This is then what the images will look like however they are too big and slow to make it appear as though it is a movie, so we will have to group all of them together by clicking on one of the images and then pressing 'Apple' + 'a' which will change all of the image icons to brown.

You can then choose 'Sequence' and then 'Nest Item(s)' so as all of the images will be nested in to one sequence. 

This is how the photo sequence will appear on the timeline now that all of the images have been nested together to make one sequence. The images will still be played slowly though so we will have to speed it up to make it look like a proper movie.

To do this we go on the the 'Modify' tab and then choose 'Speed' to alter how fast it will be played.

This is the option you get when the speed box comes up and I have changed the speed too 3000 Percent so as it plays fast enough to merge the photos together.

By altering the video speed, it brings up a red line above the sequence box that indicates the photo sequence needs to be rendered so as it will be able to ply smoothly. You go in to the 'Sequence' tab and then choose 'Render All' and 'Video'. This will then remove the red line and the image sequence will run smoothly.

This is the window where you can see what the video looks like and what you have to change to make it better or to change any errors that have happened during the making of the stop motion.