Hello everyone, I'm making a slide presentation in the video editor. I have about 400 photos in the presentation and would like to change the time duration of each slide from, for example 3 seconds to 6. I am currently changing each individual slide which is taking along time.
Does anyone know how i can select all the photos at once and change the time to 6 secs?
Thanks, Garry.
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Someone suggested this the other day to deal with situations like yours where you have already assembled all your photos in the timeline. It is still cumbersome, but potentially better than starting afresh as Terry implicitly suggests! 
The idea is to highlight all the the photos on the timeline. For the sake of completeness, you do this by left clicking on the first photo, then pressing the Shift key, and while keeping it depressed, left click on the last photo. All the photos should then appear highlighted.
You then drag and drop them into the library pane. I have just tested this and it works. The photos were placed in the Image pane of the Library. The transitions are not transferred with the photos. However, the photos remain in the timeline as well, so you have to delete them from there. The fastest way to do this might be to start a new project with a clean timeline. This will also serve the purpose of ensuring your previous compilation remains intact in case something goes wrong with this one!
You now change the still image duration in Preferences from 3 to 6 seconds.
Then highlight all your photos in the Image pane in the library using the Shift key method above. And drag and drop all the photos back into the timeline. The transitions should be automatically installed between them.
NB: A handy tip, when dragging to or from the Image pane, is to highlight all the images, but make sure that you put the mouse cursor arrow over the *first* image in the series when you drag them to the timeline or image pane and drop them. This will ensure they remain in order. VS has a bad habit of getting the photos and videos out of order if you don't do it this way, usually putting the first photo last.
The idea is to highlight all the the photos on the timeline. For the sake of completeness, you do this by left clicking on the first photo, then pressing the Shift key, and while keeping it depressed, left click on the last photo. All the photos should then appear highlighted.
You then drag and drop them into the library pane. I have just tested this and it works. The photos were placed in the Image pane of the Library. The transitions are not transferred with the photos. However, the photos remain in the timeline as well, so you have to delete them from there. The fastest way to do this might be to start a new project with a clean timeline. This will also serve the purpose of ensuring your previous compilation remains intact in case something goes wrong with this one!
You now change the still image duration in Preferences from 3 to 6 seconds.
Then highlight all your photos in the Image pane in the library using the Shift key method above. And drag and drop all the photos back into the timeline. The transitions should be automatically installed between them.
NB: A handy tip, when dragging to or from the Image pane, is to highlight all the images, but make sure that you put the mouse cursor arrow over the *first* image in the series when you drag them to the timeline or image pane and drop them. This will ensure they remain in order. VS has a bad habit of getting the photos and videos out of order if you don't do it this way, usually putting the first photo last.
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