Change Duration of Multiple Still Images - No Ripple

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Change Duration of Multiple Still Images - No Ripple

New to FCP X -- still trying to figure things out. I have a bunch of still images that were put into timeline -- all 10 seconds. I was changing the duration of groups of them within the timeline and everything was going great...timeline would ripple down after shortinging the duration.

But for no apparent reason...things changed and now changing the duration only shortens each one but doesn't ripple the rest of the timeline down (see pic).

Can anyone explain how to fix this? I've been trying to fix it for awhile now and getting nowhere. Thanks in advance.

Posted on Feb 15, 2013 1:07 PM

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Tom Wolsky

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Feb 15, 2013 1:52 PM in response to jenlarso

I'm guessing previously you had the stills on the primary storyline. This will ripple as you lengthen and shortened items. These images are connected clips. They're completely independent of each other. If you want them to behave like the primary storyline, select them and use Clip>Create Storyline. Cmd-G (group). They'll all be linked together on a storyline, connected to the primary, and anything you change in the storyline will ripple just as it did on the primary.

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Feb 15, 2013 2:06 PM in response to jenlarso

Tom beat me to it and put it more concisely !!

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Feb 15, 2013 2:27 PM in response to Neil Sinclair

Thanks to both of you! I obviously have a lot still to figure out about FCP X. Been using FCP in various formats for over almost 10 years but this version is taking a lot more time getting used to. I really appreciate getting help on this board in a matter of minutes after posting a question!🙂

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Feb 27, 2013 10:21 AM in response to jenlarso

Hello I tried changing the duration of multiple stills when music was already added and I got this. Is there any way of avoiding this, perhaps by desyncing the audio from the image first perhaps? Thanks

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Tom Wolsky

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Feb 27, 2013 11:12 AM in response to markfrompluneret

Are the stills on the primary storyline? I'm not clear what's going on, but it sounds as if you may need to lift the stills out of the primary storyline, make them into a secondary storyline and then ripple their duration. This will of course make the stills lose sync with the audio.

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