Increasing the length of still photos en mass

PetersonK01 wrote on 3/11/2007, 8:03 AM
I have a project made up of about 50 still photos. They are all 5 secs long (the default) and over lap for 1 second. I wanted to change this to have them all be 7 seconds now that the photos are already in the project. In an earlier post someone says to do this:
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"If you do have a bunch of pictures already on the timeline and want to adjust their length as a group, you can do the following:

* Select the range of pictures to be adjusted (click first, then find last one, hold down shift key and click the last)
* GROUP these pictures together (hit the G key)
* Shrink down the main timeline slider until you have a reasonable amount of time between each between each timeline 'tick', like maybe 5 seconds. This is only to give you visual reference for the next step.
* Now either at the beginning or end of the selected pictures hold down CTRL and then stretch the edge of the first or last picture. You should see a small squiggly line under the cursor as you press CTRL. The CTRL key is a TIME STRETCH option. Notice that ALL of the selected pictures increase or decrease in length.

This is a great way to evenly spread out a bunch of pictures for a particular length of time - say, for example, the length of a song.

You might want to ungroup the pictures when you are done - use the U key when on a picture to ungroup it."
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So, after verifying that each pic is exactly 5 secs long, and they are, I follwed these instructions. I grouped the photos, I then moved them so they start at second number 2. Then I dragged the edge of the very first pic until it snapped at second number 0 (the start of the timeline) assuming it would add exactly 2 seconds to the first picture, and therefore, due to the grouping and the fact that iwas holding down the ctrl button (and did have the squiggly line !) I assumed it would add exactly 2 secs to all pics in the group.

Nope.

when I pull up the Event Pan/Crop for a single photo after doing all this, it has now increased the time to just a hair past 5 seconds. EAch pic is now a few millisecs longer than 5 secs...so they did increase in time but why not the full 2 secs i had hoped? My Grid Spacing is set to seconds.

I repeated this exercise grouping just 2 photos to experiment...wanted to see if the sheer number of photos I was trying to do this with was too much...

With 2 photos, stretching the first one 2 extra seconds (hoping to make 7!) resulted in them both becoming 6.1 seconds long.

HELP!

Comments

Chienworks wrote on 3/11/2007, 8:44 AM
You're doing it exactly right and getting the result you are supposed to get. Your just have to realize that the 2 seconds you're adding gets distributed evenly over all the pictures in the group. Stretching the 50 pictures out 2 seconds adds 1/25 of a second to each picture. So, if you have 50 pictures totalling 250 seconds and you want them to now be 350 seconds, you have to stretch them out 100 seconds, not 2.
PetersonK01 wrote on 3/11/2007, 10:21 AM
Well now that makes complete sense now that you mention it! many thanks