Editing Stop Motion with Final Cut Pro

1. Final Cut Pro lets you set a default video size for imported images. We need to set things so that an image is imported to play as 3 individual video frames. This will give us a playback frame rate of 10fps. You can change this number to affect the playback frame rate, but will need to re-import your folder of photos at the new duration if you change it. To set this import size go to the top menu and select user preferences from the Final Cut Pro menu.
2. Select the editing tab (second item) in the user preferences and change Still/Freeze Duration to 00:00:00:03. Click OK.
   
3. Import the folder of images. These should be sequentially named and 720X480.
   
   
4. Double click the imported folder of images. Select all (Edit>Select All) of the images. and drag them to the timeline.
   

This information is taken from: http://mediacommons.psu.edu/instruction/tutorials/importing-still-images-stop-motion-animation-final-cut

I have found it particularly important when importing images to use this process that I found online, as it makes the editing process much easier when putting clips onto the timeline. Not only does it save time but also means I can immediately start editing with the clips rather than having to wait for each one to render ect.