Timing Stills On Timeline

jerryd wrote on 1/9/2002, 4:43 PM

Attempting to make a slideshow timed to the length of 2 songs. How can I RETIME (they were brought in at 5 seconds) the still to match the length of the songs?
(I know you can drag the edges in and out, but that is REALLY tedious- any other way?) Thanks

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Chienworks wrote on 1/9/2002, 5:15 PM

If you select all the stills (zoom all the way out to see your entire project
at once, change your cursor to the selection tool and drag over them all)
and then group, you can Ctrl-stretch the right edge of the last still and
they will all stretch out at once. You can just simply stretch (or squash)
them to the length of the music. They will all stretch proportionately.

jerryd wrote on 1/9/2002, 6:11 PM

Thanks for the great tip, but I was hoping for a way to adjust individually (or in groups) by selecting a file (or group) and type in a timecode. Posible?

Control_Z wrote on 1/9/2002, 10:07 PM

Just do the math beforehand. e.g. If you have a 3:00 song and 30 pics set the preferences to 10 seconds each. Minus transitions. Or plus transitions.? {2 10 second pics with a 1 sec fade will last 19 secs}

The time stretch thing never seems to work for me. First, it also stretches all the transitions. Worse, it sometimes leads to awful blinking artifacts - presumably some sort of interlace effect.

jerryd wrote on 1/10/2002, 5:18 AM

This has been my experience as well. This appears to be a serious defficiency in VV with regards to slideshows (which is one reason I bought the program). There certainly should be some efficient and accurate way to tweak the time of selected stills on the timeline. No matter how much math you do up front, there is always the need for tweaking. The much cheaper DVRaptor by Canopus has this feature (select a still and type in a new timecode).

SonicTamara wrote on 1/10/2002, 9:17 AM

How about using the Edit Details window (View -> Edit Details)? You can select groups of events to work with or work with all events at once (from the Show drop-down list in the Edit Details window, choose either Selected Events or Events). You click and drag to select multiple values in a column in the Edit Details window and enter a new value for all the events at once. Is this the sort of thing you're looking for?

jerryd wrote on 1/10/2002, 4:00 PM

Precisely! You're brilliant! Thank you.