CHANGING TIME OF STILLS

tailgait wrote on 3/10/2003, 4:36 PM
I import all my still images at a timing of :07 seconds. How do I change the timing of stills when they are in the timeline. Every once and awhile I need to slow down a pan and zoom and my answer to that is changing the timing of the still. If there is another way to do it, I would like to know that too. TIA. I know there must be a simple answer to all this.
tailgait
Burt Wilson

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JJKizak wrote on 3/10/2003, 6:43 PM
Its in the options menu and I believe the default is 10 sec (299 frames) but
then again I might have set that in and the default might be 4 or 5 seconds.

JJK
DGrob wrote on 3/10/2003, 6:58 PM
I'm pretty sure the default still import into timeline is 5 seconds. You can simply drag this up of down to change the actual time on-screen. You can modify pan/zooms within the still window with keyframes (delay onset, rush the final composition position, etc.) Grob
Tyler.Durden wrote on 3/10/2003, 8:04 PM
Hi Burt,

If I'm reading your post right, you would like to change the duration a single still *after* you have it in the timeline?

An easy way is to drag the right edge to lengthen the event and select the remaining events and drag them down too.

In V4, any following events can automatically move down (ripple).


To increase the time in your pan keyframes, you might try dragging a rectangle around them (to highlight and hold the Alt key while dragging the last one later - the rest should follow in scale.




HTH, MPH

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tailgait wrote on 3/10/2003, 9:22 PM
I can see I did not put my question correctly or it was not understood correctly, but Marty got the right idea. Here's an example. I have a 7-sec. image. I want to pan across it from one end to the other. Having set that up, I find that I need to extend the length of the still so the pan can get everything in in a reasonable time for comprehension. Extending the still does not work for me. That is the first thing I thought of. But the "looping" just makes it stay longer on the end frame. That's my problem. I have tried the same thing with track motion, but to no avail. Thank you for the help!
Burt Wilson
philfort wrote on 3/10/2003, 11:17 PM
Hold down the ctrl key, and drag the end of the clip. That will stretch it instead of "adding to it".
Chienworks wrote on 3/11/2003, 6:19 AM
The problem you're seeing is that stretching out the clip does not change the pan speed. After stretching out the clip, you'll have to go back into Pan/Crop and move the end keyframe to the new end position on the timeline. Say your original clip was 7 seconds and you set your pan to end at the end of the 7 seconds. If you stretch the clip out to 12, then the pan still ends at 7 because that's where the end keyframe still is. Moving this end keyframe to 12 seconds will extend the pan to the end of the clip.
tailgait wrote on 3/11/2003, 5:14 PM
That does it. Thank you very much!