Great! I was wondering the same. Thanks!

as each pic is moved to timeline, will each have the 2-sec length as set by Pref setting? Or must each individual pic have its own Pref setting?

It's a global setting.

@garuda Maybe giving an answer to an unasked question is redundant, but this comes up quite a lot. It’s a little related. The following is mostly a copy and paste of previous querys.

To fit stills into a fixed time length on the timeline, longer or smaller than the default say 5s per still. ...

Place two markers on the timeline, then ...

Place the series of pictures on your timeline, beginning at the first marker. It doesn't matter how long they're on there for as we'll change that in a moment. Apply a dissolve or any other transition between each one if you want that.

Click the first image, hold down the Shift key and click the last image in the sequence (this selects all of them) and press the G key to group them all together.

Now place your cursor at the far right edge of the last image. Hold down the CTRL key and drag everything to the right until you get to the second marker and let go.

You should see a squiggly line (looks like a series of W joined together) that looks like a small wave across all these images. That's an indication that things have been slowed down or sped up.  That's all there is to it. The same thing works if you're trying to shrink a group of images to fit a smaller amount of time. Click the first one, shift+click the last one, group them and then shrink to fit.

When you select any one item in a group, other item(s) get a thin coloured border indicating they are part of the group. It’s a quick way to check if an item is in a group or not.

Since you're answering unasked questions. How you outlined is how I've done this in the past. Is there a way to easily put a dissolve or swipe between all the image transitions or is this something that needs to be done for each image transition point?

@Rednroll there are some scripts that will do this and I believe vegasaur (paid) will do it.

@Rednroll This is fairly limited, but you can add crossfades automatically on added media.

The “Automatically crop still images” item is also useful when checked.

Since you're answering unasked questions. How you outlined is how I've done this in the past. Is there a way to easily put a dissolve or swipe between all the image transitions or is this something that needs to be done for each image transition point?

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I typically use Excalibur to resize and overlap events on the timeline. If you want a Ken Burns style movement on each image, you have a random option in Excalibur or a more precise option in Montage Magic.

Since you're answering unasked questions. How you outlined is how I've done this in the past. Is there a way to easily put a dissolve or swipe between all the image transitions or is this something that needs to be done for each image transition point?

 

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Haha, I may have to read this manual after all.