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JohnnyRoy wrote on 8/5/2004, 10:57 AM
I’m not sure why you want to insert time into an empty project. Just drop your pictures on the timeline and they will take up whatever time they need. In answer to your question, you can’t insert time into an empty project. The project length is as long as the end of the last event (timewise) on the timeline.

If you really want to insert 45 minutes, you must place an event at the 45 minute mark. Otherwise an empty project has no length.

~jr
JaysonHolovacs wrote on 8/5/2004, 11:05 AM
JohnnyRoy,
Is that true? In my experience, Vegas seems to have some weird behavior when it comes to project length. Sometimes it seems to extend a few seconds beyond my last event. Sometimes it doesn't. Perhaps I'm not doing something right. Normally I select the whole project and render the selection to ensure that I don't get dead space at the end. Anyone else notice something like this happening in their projects?

-Jayson
Summersond wrote on 8/5/2004, 11:05 AM
Add all of your pictures and select all of them and create a new group. Add music. Go to the end of your pictures and hold down the ctrl key and drag the timeline longer or shorter to match the music. I do this all the time. It will change all the pictures the same amount of time.

edit: I was assuming you were adding still pictures. For media events, you could speed up or shorten several clips by a small amount to get the proper length.
jetdv wrote on 8/5/2004, 11:41 AM
I agree with JohnnyRoy - you make the project longer by adding new events to the timeline! By default, there is no length to the project. As you add new events, the project gets length. If you want a blank project that is 45 minutes long, you need to add an event and MOVE it to the 45 minute mark. You don't specify length before you start - you just add items until you reach the needed length.
kennygk wrote on 8/5/2004, 1:10 PM
Ok, to try to address all of the welcomed responses,...here goes...

When I tried to make the last event 3 minutes and something using the timing box at the lower far right corner, it would only take the event snap to the right edge of the screen and stop, as if that were the invisible wall that it couldn't go beyond, about the 2 minute mark. So in that respect, I can agree with Jayson.

Can anyone give me a clue as to why this is happening, and what can be done to overcome it?

I really don't want the events all the same length, as this will be mostly a picture story with narration and scrolling text played like a video. Each picture must be displayed precisely on time and at the specified length of time.

thanks ALL
Ken
kennygk wrote on 8/5/2004, 1:18 PM
To answer my own question somewhat,...what I just discovered is that if i dragged the right edge of the event way beyone the snap created by trying to enter the precise snap time, I could get it approximately as long as I wanted it. Then I double clicked it again to reset it's overall length. This time it accepted it to the desired time specified.

!#@$???!!** Beats me. It's kinda like an adventure with a lot of trailblazing to be done.

Any more insight might help though.

thanks...Ken
JohnnyRoy wrote on 8/6/2004, 10:59 AM
Ken,

That’s because there is nothing else on the timeline and so it ends the selection only to the end of the track view. As you found out, if you extended your image to be 3 seconds and then tried to make the selection 5 seconds the selection would end at 3:20 because that’s the end of the track view. I know its weird.

What you want to do is take another track and put something long on it like a music bed. (or something short and just extend it out so it loops) and then the selection will work as you want it to. You could event just place one image at the 30-minute mark and it will extend the length of the project as we said.

Since you are synchronizing this to narration, perhaps it would be easier to add the narration first and then add the pictures. That will establish the length of the project for you. Just a thought.

~jr