Still Image Timing

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Still Image Timing

I am importing stills into my movie and I would like them all to be 4 seconds long but when I put them in my timeline they automatically go to 10 seconds. Is there a way to set it so they automatically go to 4 seconds?

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Teddy S

Powerbook G4, Mac OS X (10.3.x)

Posted on Apr 29, 2008 8:24 AM

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hanumang

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Apr 29, 2008 8:26 AM in response to Te'ey

This is an option under User Preferences (Option-Q), in the Editing tab (if I'm not mistaken). Should be labeled as +Still Frame Duration.+ Adjust that value to 4 seconds.

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Studio X

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Apr 29, 2008 9:57 AM in response to hanumang

This change will only affect stills imported after the change.

If you have a great number of images, delete them from the browser, make the duration change in the settings and reimport the images. They will now all have the desired duration.

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hanumang

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Apr 29, 2008 11:19 AM in response to Studio X

Another way would be to lay down all the stills imported prior to the User Preferences adjustment in the timeline and, with all selected Control-click over one of the stills and select *Duration (00:00:10;00)* from the shortcut menu. Altering the value to 4 seconds will them trim them all down by 6 seconds.

(This doesn't actually set the duration to a standard, but instead trims all clips by the same amount from their Out points. So, if one clip is, say, 5 seconds, it will fail.)

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