Length of Events

Jon Becker wrote on 1/1/2008, 1:29 PM
My 9-year old son is making a stop action movie with his Star Wars legos...very cool...but when I import all of the photos into Vegas, they all come in as 5-second long events. I would like them to come in as 1-2 frame events. How do I change the length of time for all of the events at once. I really do not want to resize 200 events one at a time.

I tried using "Paste Event Attributes" but this does not seem to apply for this application.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Jon

Comments

autopilot wrote on 1/1/2008, 1:56 PM
Go to Options>Preferences>Editing and there you can tell it how long you want each picture to show.

I think you could probably group them all and CTRL+ Drag in on the end of the group - like speeding up a clip.
Ivan Lietaert wrote on 1/1/2008, 2:02 PM
In Options<'preferences' go to the tab 'editing'. Look for 'new still image length'. The default setting is 5,000 so you'll have to set it much lower: something like 0,2 or even lower. Also check in the same screen the 'cut-to-overlap' conversion: this should be much lower than the default setting or even zero.

If you apply these changes and drag images to the timeline they will have the duration you set. Good luck!
Chienworks wrote on 1/1/2008, 2:18 PM
Best way to do this is to import them as a still image sequence. Make sure that the files are named with sequential numbers, such as pic0001.jpg pic0002.jpg pic0003.jpg pic0004.jpg ... etc. Most digital cameras will do this anyway, so it's usually not an issue.

To import them as a sequence go to File / Open and browse to the directory where the pictures are. Click on the first one, then check the box near the bottom that says "import as image sequence." Click OK. You'll now be given the option to specify a frame rate. Choose either your project frame rate or exactly one half the rate (to have each image last 2 frames). Click OK. All the pictures will now be on the timeline as a single video event, just like you had imported an AVI file.