How do I change the duration of a photo in an iMovie project with the latest update?

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How do I change the duration of a photo in an iMovie project with the latest update?

Since the latest update of iMovie, I cannot figure out how to change the duration of a photo in a movie project. You used to just double click the photo or set of photos you selected and set duration. There you also had the option to apply the duration for all the stills in the project or just the selected.

The only thing that kind of works is to slide the edge of the photo to lengthen or shorten the duration. However, it is touchy and hard to make exact and you can only do this to one photo at a time.

Please help!

iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.8)

Posted on Nov 4, 2013 3:45 PM

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Answer 1

donwhine

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Nov 4, 2013 3:53 PM in response to jesgramenz

Good question... I might find your answer here:

https://discussions.apple.com/community/ilife/imovie?view=discussions

Here I usually find solution to iMovie for iOS issue on ipad/iphone not the desktop version one.

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jesgramenz Author

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Nov 4, 2013 4:05 PM in response to jesgramenz

So I figured out how to change the duration for all of the photos. Go into Movie Properities (under Window tab) and then to settings. There I can change the duration of the stills for all in the project. Still can't figure out how to then change individual photo durations.

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jesgramenz Author

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Nov 6, 2013 3:37 PM in response to jesgramenz

Yippee! I figured it out myself! After thinking it was impossible, and deciding I was going to go back to the older iMovie, I found the way on accident.

Select the photo or photos (shift-click more than one in a row or command-click if you have more than one not next to each other) and then hit "adjust" in upper left corner. Hit the "i" for information and you will see a duration box that you can change. Make sure after you enter the duration, you hit "enter" or "return" to apply it to the selected photos!

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Answer 4

Dec 28, 2013 5:41 PM in response to jesgramenz

You are the BEST! I have spent hours working on this and searching for a way to change the during on multiple photos! Thanks for your input.

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Jan 30, 2014 9:52 AM in response to jesgramenz

Thank you for posting this - I was going crazy trying to find it... Last resort, Google it. Voila, this thread came up. Thanks again...

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Feb 3, 2014 10:26 AM in response to Scubadogg1

Do you know how to delete the transitions so that still photos are made to look like a movie?

Also, how do you then burn them to a DVD to watch in a DVD player? I have iDVD, but that is no longer an option, and I don't know where to save it to then transfer it into iDVD. I actually was able to do this once, but now it won't work. Help!!!

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Answer 7

Feb 14, 2014 7:44 PM in response to jesgramenz

I discovered that imovie can be exported to iDVD via iTunes. Export to iTunes then open iDVD and then go to "audio" instead of "movies", find the exported imovie and drag it into the iDVD project. Good luck.

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