Adjusting Clip Length For Multiple Clips

Ron Lucas wrote on 4/10/2002, 9:54 AM
Two questions:

#1:
I have a video track with 60 JPG files running 10 seconds each with a 1 second crossfade between each event. I need to adjust the length of each clip to run 7 seconds instead while preserving the 1 second crossfade between each event. Is there an easy way to make this change?

#2:
Does VV30a have any kind of programmable keyboard macro feature where I want to repeat a sequence of steps to many clips?

Thanks,
Ron

Comments

Chienworks wrote on 4/10/2002, 2:06 PM
If the transitions are simple fades, it would probably be easiest to start over from scratch. Before adding the images to the timeline, go to Options, Preferences, Editing. Set the New still image length to 7 seconds, check Automatic overlap, and set the Cut-to-overlap to 1 second. Note that this will result in a new image appearing every 6 seconds, not 7. If you want the images to appear at 7 second intervals, set the length to 8 seconds (interval + overlap).

Even if you had other transitions, it might still be faster to start over and reapply the transitions than to adjust all the lengths manually.
Ron Lucas wrote on 4/11/2002, 7:44 AM
Thanks Chienworks. Unfortunately, I have some animation going on in each event so I would have to re-create those too. Not to big a deal, but I thought I would check and see if there was some nice trick to adjusting the length of clips before I start over.

I was thinking of the way you can do something simliar in Microsoft Excel with column widths. You can select a bunch or all of the columns, then adjust just one column, and they all adjust with it. Pretty nice feature in Excel anyway...

Thanks,
Ron
Chienworks wrote on 4/11/2002, 9:35 AM
You can do something very similar with Vegas too. However, it will also increase/decrease the transition times proportionally as well. Since you specified that you need to keep all the transition times the same, this probably wouldn't work for you.

However, if you'd like to try it ... select all the clips and group them together. Then you can Ctrl-drag the end of the last clip left to shorten or right to lengthen. All the clips will shorten/lengthen proportionally.