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Chienworks wrote on 9/21/2007, 7:49 PM
The rate slider only affects preview. It has nothing to do with the finished rendered output.

You can shorten all the photos on the timeline down to as little as 1 frame each, but that could take some time. I'm not sure if Vegas Studio version 8 has this option, but the full version under Options / Preference / Editing has an option for New still image length. If it's there you can set this for a much smaller value and then import the pictures again. The full version also has an "import still image sequence" under File / Open that lets you add all the pictures as if they were frames of a single video file, but i don't know of the Studio version has that either.

Another option is to select all the pictures and Group them, then Ctrl drag the end of the last picture to the left. This will "squish" them all and make them play faster, up to 4X. Then render this to a new file and bring this new file into an empty timeline. Repeat the Ctrl drag to the left to speed this up 4X for a total of 16X and render again. You can repeat this as many times as you wish to speed it up as much as necessary.
Ivan Lietaert wrote on 9/21/2007, 9:59 PM
Chien, after grouping, you don't need to squish them holding CTRL, just squish them without holding CTRL, and you will shorten them without the 4X limit.

Edit: Oops, I was wrong, but, wouldn't it be nice?
Ivan Lietaert wrote on 9/21/2007, 10:08 PM
Do some calculations to fit your 300 pics in a 2' movie. 120/300 equals 0.4
Each pictures should be shown 0.4 secs. Under preferences, tab editing, you can set new still image length at 0,4 seconds. Press apply, then drag the pictures to the timeline. You'll have a 2 minute movie of your 300 pics.

If under preferences, tab editing, you set new still image lenght at 0,05 his will result in one image per frame. (in pal, 25 frames per second)
Asteriod wrote on 9/22/2007, 2:21 AM
Ivan,
It worked perfectly.
Thank you.