Matt,
Thanks for your response. Automate to Timeline is a feature of Premiere that allows you to select multiple media files from a bin then automatically place them in a sequential order on the timeline complete with a transition. In this process you can specify the duration of each clip and its transition. This is a very quick way to prepare a sequence of a few hundred images/clips.
My FC Studio pack came with a stack of manuals that I have searched but found nothing like I