Newbie Question: rapid less than a second cycling of photos, advice?

[ppc1]

Hi,

I'm a newbie at this so please bear with me. I need to create a video where about 1000 images that are very quickly shown on the screen. I'm talking prob less then a second per picture.

How would I accomplish such a thing? which software would support it? I'm on a mac but would use a PC if needed. iMovie does not allow me the ability to speed it up fast enough and just feels in general very inflexible.

Anyone have any experience with this?

Thanks

[guns1inger]

The shortest duration you will be able to display each image is one frame. The duration of each frame is dependent on how many frames per second you set your framerate to when encoding, which will in turn be dependent on what you intend to play the results back on.

If i Movie won't let you get down to one frame per image then you will have to look at either FCP/FCS, or Premiere if you want use your Mac, or Vegas or Premiere (or pretty much any decent editor) on the PC. Note that some editors have a default duration when importing stills which can be over-ridden. You may have to go into preferences or the project settings to do this.

If you don't need the features of a full NLE just for the importing and outputting, AVI Demux (Mac or PC) will import a stream on sequentially numbered images at one per frame, as will virtualdub (PC only).

[jagabo]

The fastest frame rate you can display will likely be limited by the refresh rate of your monitor (if you want to see all of every frame). If your monitor is running 60 Hz you will only see 60 fps at max. Even if you find a display with a much higher refresh rate you will probably be limited by how fast your computer can put frames on the screen.

[Cornucopia]

The OP said ~<1 second per picture, and that is well within the capabilities of most, if not all NLEs. I would think even iMovie could do that, though I can't remember where one would make that adjustment. Since you have a Mac, you could do it in QTPro. There are many guides on the net on how to import pic sequences, and on how to adjust thier framerate that way.
AVISynth can do it. AE can easily do all you want and more, even down to LESS than 1 frame per picture.

Scott

[jagabo]

Yes, most editors will let you specify just about any frame rate. If the output format doesn't allow for the source frame rate, usually frames will be duplicated or decimated to match.