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Drag multiple stills outpoint in timeline
Hi guys.
This may be a simple problem, but it’s got me stumped.
Lets say you are halfway through a project and you realize the 50 imported stills have a preference setting at 5 seconds and you need them all at 30 seconds.
How can you select them all and drag their outpoints together, because if one selects all those layers and attempts to drag in the timeline, only that layer drags and not the others.
Please assist. Thanks.
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2 Replies
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Firstly, my preference is to set stills/solids to have a default length of the entire comp length… I like this because i usually have to trim the length anyway, so i might as well start with the full length. But that’s just personal choice.
Secondly, you CAN select multiple layers and drag their outpoints together – I’m not sure about old versions of AE but CS3 (and i’m assuming 4) behave like this. I just tried then with 3 layers with different out points. Select them all, drag out one of their out points (make sure all 3 are selected) and they will all slide out.
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David, thanks. I searched all over for that shortcut – sometimes just getting the terminology incorrect stops us from getting the answer.
I also feel a bit silly, as after I got your answer I found the keyboard shortcut list in the help drop down – can’t believe I did not see it sooner.
Thank you – that shortcut is exactly what I was after.
Stuart, I’m using 6.5 and when all the layers are selected and I drag the out point of one, only that one drags, so that is not a solution for me – it may have changed in newer versions though.
Thank you both for your valued input.
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