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

- 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.…Now once you've imported all of these,…it's really just a collection of still images.…

So what's going to be needed is you're going to want to select…the entire range by shift-clicking.…And now, you're going to want to add that into your project.…Let's go ahead and open up Shot_01.…And I'm going to select this range of assets,…and move them down into the project.…What's generated is really a slide show,…and in this case,…the duration of each of these images is 10 seconds,…which isn't going to work really well for a time-lapse.…

But we can easily change this.…So what we'll do is, with all of the items selected,…