IMovie 11 adjusting photo duration - won't change, various times showing!

H E L P!!!! I have just installed Imovie 11. I am in the finishing stages of a project which HAS TO BE COMPLETED in the next 2 days. I am having grief adjusting the duration for my still photos. I click on the COG - Clip adjustments - change the timing to 08:00 and tick the APPLIES TO ALL STILLS box. The clip won't change and some of them show 12s, some 10s ect. HOW DO I CHANGE THIS?? WHY IS IT SUCH A DRAMA??? I WANT MY STILLS to show for eight seconds only. CAN SOMEONE PLEASE HELP ME???? THANK YOU

imac, Mac OS X (10.6.5), CREATING IMOVIE WITH STILL PHOTOS ONLY

Posted on Dec 15, 2010 2:46 PM

20 replies

Mar 21, 2012 3:56 PM in response to Shazack_bears

I'm into a movie myself and am finding the same issue. Ugh! This has never happened to me before and it's a real pain! I put in 6.0 and it changes it to 11.4. Has Apple commented on this anywhere??

Aug 10, 2012 5:10 PM in response to Shazack_bears

Set first the photo length to something like 5:00 for minutes or 120s for seconds, then set the audio length to be the same.

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Mar 11, 2014 1:41 PM in response to Shazack_bears

I experienced this behavior after copying a project. It was working correctly prior to that action. It may be that copying triggered the anomaly. I used beekayApples solution successfully.

Jul 10, 2015 9:09 AM in response to Shazack_bears

Try this. Set ANY duration right after you create your project but before you import any content from the library. It worked for me. 🙂

May 28, 2016 7:41 PM in response to Shazack_bears

I got this working simply by zooming in, by moving the bar to the right, the bar that's to the left of 'Settings', above the images.

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IMovie 11 adjusting photo duration - won't change, various times showing!