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!
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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!