Re: [Avid-L2] PNG Image Sequence - Linking Hell(p)

Thanks Jeffrey, makes sense from a "same code" perspective.  It also explains some why my workaround worked sometimes but not always.  

I had converted all the skipped frames from PNG to TIFF.  So as long as only 1 frame had been skipped, Media Composer happily brought in the TIFF.  But whenever I hit a spot of animation that was on 3's, MC would skip the extra TIFF.  But sounds like Graphic Converter is rearranging code or pixels or something enough to make MC happy.

Would be so nice to be able to tell MC "Just Link Every Frame I'm Asking You To."  Because, that would actually make sense!   But appreciate your clever workaround.

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Re: [Avid-L2] PNG Image Sequence - Linking Hell(p)

I have this problem when importing PowerPoint slides - if the frames are 100% identical, you don't get a new one, because the "unique ID" is created by mashing the content into a unique code, but "same content" means "same code", so it's like "I've already got this one".

The way I fooled it was to read the frame into Graphic Converter and re-export it. The re-encoded copy is ever-so-slightly different from the original, and now has a unique ID. That worked for me because I needed to differentiate identical slides from two different PP shows, but never more that two copies of any given slide.

Graphic Converter can operate on whole batches of images, such as a frame sequence, and perform sequences of pre-programmed operations on each frame. I don't think just saving a second time will work when you have multiple copies in the *same* batch that are identical, as they will each export identically, but you might be able to fool it by including something in the batch that makes some invisible change to each image that's based on the file name or sequence number, like an invisible watermark that makes every frame every-so-slightly different.

I don't think there is any setting that will force MC to do something more obvious, like include the file name in the unique ID algorithm.

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[Avid-L2] PNG Image Sequence - Linking Hell(p)

I'm struggling with Linking a PNG image sequence and wondering if any of you have ideas.
Basically I've received a PNG image sequence of a hand-drawn animated shot.
I'm Linking to the PNGs since the shot is oversized to allow for pan/scan and alternative (thanks tik-tok) frame sizes.
I'm not super well versed in Linking so I'm hoping I'm just doing something wrong, or maybe one of you has a workaround

Two issues I'm having:
First, Media Composer refuses to Link these as an image sequence so I've resorted to Linking these PNGs as individual frames. Not ideal, but I can work with that.  Yes, I do have "link sequentially numbered images" selected in my link options.

Second, and more annoying. Upon trying to bring in the files, MC is ignoring some frames in the sequence and refusing to Link those specific frames.  Basically in the animation there are a few repeated frames - as in, the image holds for a few frames (like frame 6 is identical to frames 7 & 8). But the image sequence provided covers these holds with individual frames (for 1 sec at 24fps, I've received 24 frames).
It seems like what's happening is MC is seeing no change in image for repeated frames and so skips them on import. But the frames have individual sequential names and I'd think MC would just bring them in.

If I just Import instead of link, the Image sequence comes in as a Clip AND all frames are respected. But again, it's an oversized shot so Linking is my preferred approach.

Any thoughts on this are appreciated.
Thanks!

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