Quickly changing still images duration to synch with titles

[Angelo Lorenzo]

Highlight multiple clips adjacent to each other, right click, select speed/duration, adjust to your heart’s content and select ripple.

Beyond that, if each still needs to be a unique duration then you’ll have to settle for manual adjustment.

Alternately, if you have After Effects you can do some scripting because you can tell the script okay, make layer 24’s duration equal to layer 3.

It could also just be a workflow issue. Maybe you can elaborate as to why these titles are locked in time to force you to adjust the more granular slideshow cuts.

Angelo Lorenzo

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[Rok Picasso]

Thank you, Angelo.

Yes, each Title has a different duration, so selecting all is not an option unfortunately.

The After Effects tip is potentially powerful and relevant. I’m not familiar with its scripting, but I do some CSS, know basic JavaScript, and very familiar with XHTML; so where can I start to learn After Effects’s scripting?

The Titles must have those different duration values because they are synched with the voiceover audio. Does that clarify or invite any solutions?

[Angelo Lorenzo]

After Effects uses ActionScript which is a variation on Javascript.

You’ll probably notice that Premiere and After Effects installed “Adobe ExtendScript Toolkit”. This is the development environment for ActionScript. Premiere is included as a program within it, but is nearly unscriptable (I think it’s there in case you want to grab properties for AE or another program)

https://www.motionscript.com/ lists some good resources to start.

https://library.creativecow.net/toula_jesse/AE-Scripting-1/1 is worth looking at too.

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[Rok Picasso]

Many thanks for these resources and the explanation, Angelo!

[Gabriel Sanchez]

In PPro, you can place sequence markers where titles start and finish, then select all the images in the proyect pannel and click automate to sequence button, select “place in markers” option in the automate to sequence window. To avoid pictures being shorter than any space between two markers, and having to refit manually in the timeline, select a longer duration for still images BEFORE importing pictures in the “Still images duration” option in the General tab of the Preferences.
Regards

[Rok Picasso]

Sheer genius, Gabriel!!

I’m stunned, man. I had about 1% hope that there [is] a solution for this problem, and thought that I’d be stuck with manual tweaking until Adobe just improved the program, but this really does work! It’s awesome. I just used the up arrow and M, over and over again very quickly to place those markers, and the rest worked like a charm, just you described.

Thank you so much, mate! You’ve probably saved a lot of time for which I hope you will be rewarded (karma!). =)

[Gabriel Sanchez]

You´re welcome, I´m glad to have helped.

Regards