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  • Can I change the length of a still photo?

    Posted by John Lee on May 25, 2014 at 4:58 am

    My preferences are set for 5 second for still image length. If I want to change a still image to, say, 2 seconds, the only way I know how to do that is to manually drag the image length -3 seconds to create a still image that is 2 seconds long.

    Can I select the still image and manually type in the length without having to drag/pull the length using the mouse?

    Thanks.

    John Rofrano replied 11 years, 12 months ago 4 Members · 4 Replies
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  • Stephen Mann

    May 25, 2014 at 3:01 pm

    There is no single click to change the event length that I have ever seen, and I don’t see it in Vegasaur or Timeline tools, either.

    What’s wrong with just changing the preferences or dragging the end of the event?
    If you have a lot of images and want to reduce some of them to 3-seconds, for example, then make a region for your target length. Drag your region to the start of the event you want to shrink, then drag the end of the event to the region. Snap is your friend. Move the region to the next event that you want to be the same length.

    Steve Mann
    MannMade Digital Video
    http://www.mmdv.com

  • John Rofrano

    May 25, 2014 at 4:48 pm

    [John Lee] “Can I select the still image and manually type in the length without having to drag/pull the length using the mouse?”

    You can use a plug-in like VASST Event Tool ($9.95 USD) to change the length of one or multiple events by typing in the new length and pressing a button. I don’t believe there is any way to do this natively in Vegas Pro.

    In the interest of full disclosure I work for VASST and wrote Event Tool. 😉

    ~jr

    http://www.johnrofrano.com
    http://www.vasst.com

  • Aleksey Tarasov

    May 26, 2014 at 4:20 am

    Quick Properties tool in Vegasaur can change the length of events on the timeline

  • John Rofrano

    May 26, 2014 at 10:52 am

    [Aleksey Tarasov] “Quick Properties tool in Vegasaur can change the length of events on the timeline”

    …and in the interest of “full disclosure“, Aleksey wrote Vegasaur so he is not a customer recommending it, he is the author and stands to benefit financially from you buying it.

    ~jr

    http://www.johnrofrano.com
    http://www.vasst.com

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