"I have them all lined up in Vegas Movie Studio HD Platinum."

Wow.
Suggest you start over and import the stills folder as "import image sequence."
Then change the new media properties to whatever frame rate you choose, and drag the event out to full length.
Search the term in quotes.

So much easier that way.

Without being presumptuous, your username evokes some bad memories for old forum members, of someone else whose intentions were less than kind. You don't 'have" to change it, but you may find yourself a casualty of mistaken identity otherwise. Just a heads up.

Did you try:

Preferences/Editing/New Still image length ?

All the pics still last 5 seconds. I do get what it is suppossed to do I just am not getting the result. I set back to defaults and tried a few times.

at default it says 5.000 150 frames at 29.970

when I make the change you suggest it show 1 frames at 29.970 fps

sound right?

1 bonus thing I learned is you can open more than one instance of VMS

O.K. I got what I want. Thanks foir all answers.
Now I can watch hurricane Sady dismantle a chunk of the Lindenhurst N.Y. marina much faster.

again thanx.

I will change that user name just in case

Shhhhh I'm going to tell you a secret. With Quicktime (maybe it's only possible with Quictime Pro which costs about US$30, I'm unsure, probably) there's a really cool feature for assembling timelapse images, security camera stills and just a general slideshow.

In Apple Quicktime application you can import your image series under the File menu or by CTRL + SHIFT + O. It's best to have the photos you want to splice together in a seperate folder as just selecting the first image will import all of the image files in the same folder.

When you import them, the user interface/pane/window dialogue allows you to specify the time per image from 29.97 frames per second, fps, to 10 seconds per image. BUT, you don't have to set that now unless you want to preview your 'slideshow'/movie.

Cool beans so far, huh? Now, the exporting is way cooler cause you have a variety of export format types - although a little limited. You get to the Export user interface/window from the main menu File > Export or CTRL + E.

The dialogue pane/window gives you a whole lot of Options and you can adjust a lot of the video settings such as size, format, deinterlacing, apply some special FX (some preinstalled (such as Emboss), some you have to get from third parties).

Then you export your video and then import that into your Sony editing software project.

It's a very powerful little add-on for Quicktime. I've imported/exported timelapse images captured with Logitech webcams using shareware from RGS-AvanceSoft called AvaCam.

Doc, this is already built into Vegas with the "import still image sequence", and it's free.

Chien - 1- I know it's included 'for free. 2. It's maybe a simpler method for people who aren't as expert as you Chien with editing software. 3. The OP can do what they need to do FOR LESS than buying editing software. 4. It never hurts to have other options. 5. It's a way to assemble prenamed/preordered sequential images quickly without having to drag and drop them. 6. It gives a chance to preview your image sequence full screen and quickly before importing it onto the tiny preview window of movie studio. 7. It's a way to convert/export some formats sometimes not useable in some versions of movie studio. 8. It gives the possibility to share the source images with someone who maybe doesn't have a Sony editing software package. 9. If someone needs to collect images to send to someone with a Sony product, they have this option. 10. I don't always want to open editing software which is overkill for patching together a string of images - especially just for security camera images.

I could list 20 more reasons for my post. So, please don't try to negate some useful information with something I'm obviously already well aware of. I find it a useful way to speed up and simplify my workflow sometimes. If you don't, bravo for you.

You set fps in the Media Properties for your Imported Still Image Sequence.
You should be importing your image assets as a movie.
One event per image is ridiculous.

Be sure and point us to that video!

Doc, that seems a bit over the top. Kelly meant nothing personal.