To create your fabulous stop motion movies from your images, you need to open “Final cut pro”. From her you need to import your images to start your movie. To do this go File, Import select Files or Folders. After selecting this, a box will appear and here is where you select the images (files) or folders of images you want in your movie/s. 
After your images have been imported and are on display down the left side. The easiest way to edit them now is to highlight the images and drag them to the timeline below.
To change the duration of an image in the movie there are many ways .The best way, if you wish to change all/ many of the images to the same duration. Highlight the image you wish to change, right click. Now select Duration, from here a box will appear where you can change the length of all the images. Once you have the desired time click on OK and this will then change the duration of each image that was highlighted.
If you need to rotate your footage to a portrait angle then you will first need to merge all your images into one clip. To do so you need to highlight all your images on the timeline, as done so before, and then select Sequence, Nest Item(s).
This will then bring up this window in which you need to just click 'OK'. This will then merge all the clips into one.
Rotating the video: To do so you need to first click on the ‘[ ]’ symbol, then scroll down the drop down menu and click on wireframe. Now you can resize and rotate the video to the way you want it. Now you are happy with the result you need to select the ‘[ ]’ button again and select Image. 
If you have a red line on your timeline and the video will not play anything that is under the red line, you will need to Render All. To do so select Sequence, Render all, then select both. 
