How to work with Multiple Stills

mrmyers wrote on 2/15/2011, 1:38 PM

I am working on a project that will have about 150 still pics. This is my first project. How do I create the project in the time line so that I do not have to continously move every item and fix transitions whenever I add something new? Is there a way to just insert time to the line or do I have to separate everything and insert the media every single time?

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Chienworks wrote on 2/15/2011, 2:04 PM

In Options / Preferences / Editing you should find settings for new still image duration and cut-to-overlap amount. The first is rather self explanator; the second specifies how much crossfade you'll get when you add multiple images simultaneously. Note that the crossfade time comes out of the still image duration, so if you set them to say, 7 seconds and 2 seconds, a new image will start every 5 seconds.

Once you've got that set up you can browse to the group of pictures in either the explorer window or the project media window, select them all, and drag them to the timeline in one shot. Whichever one you drag will be added first, with the rest following in whichever order you have the file display current set for (by filename, by date, by filetype, etc.) so you might want to take the time first to make sure the pictures are named in such a way that they'll be sorted in the order you want them.

richard-amirault wrote on 2/15/2011, 4:37 PM

How do I create the project in the time line so that I do not have to continously move every item and fix transitions whenever I add something new?

Turn on AUTO RIPPLE. It will automatically move *everything* over if you insert something new. It will also do the same (but in the other direction) if you remove, or shorten, something.

mrmyers wrote on 2/15/2011, 6:06 PM

Thanks!