Best way to change the speed of a sequence of linked short clips?

I have a sequenced project of about 150 short 1 second clips linked together via a crossfade transition... I would like to make the timelapse faster. What is the best way to change the speed of the sequence or the clips themselves? I would rather change the sequence for it would be less labor intensive I would imagine!!
Thanks
RD

Or...select all the clips in the timeline, control-click (or right-click) on them and select 'Duration'. Change the duration to whatever will fit/fill the timespan you need, then hit OK.
If you're needing to change the dissolve as well, you should remove all but one of them first, then drag the remaining transition into the browser. Dbl-click it into the viewer, set the duration of what you want, then use the hand icon at top right and drag it back into the browser. Rename it relevent to it's new duration, then control-click on it and select "Make Default".
Now, set an inpoint at the first frame of your clips in the timeline, then drag all the shortened clips from the timeline into the canvas and release where it says 'Overwrite with Transition'.
That's another way to accomplish this.
K

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sigh
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IOUtils is given freely, but please do not change its package or submit this as your own work.
====
package tjacobs;
import java.awt.Component;
import java.io.*;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Iterator;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.regex.Matcher;
import java.util.regex.Pattern;
import javax.swing.JOptionPane;
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               mMyThread.interrupt();
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               mMyThread = Thread.currentThread();
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                    try {
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                         if (!mRunning) {
                              return;
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          return new InfoFetcher(in, buf, waitTime);
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          InfoFetcher fetcher = loadData(in);
          fetcher.run();
          return new String(fetcher.buf, 0, fetcher.got);
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          InfoFetcher fetcher = loadData(in);
          fetcher.run();
          byte bytes[] = new byte[fetcher.got];
          for (int i = 0; i < fetcher.got; i++) {
               bytes[i] = fetcher.buf;
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          public InputStream in;
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               if (mListeners == null) {
                    return;
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               run();
               return buf;
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               return got;
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                              buf = expandBuf(buf);
                         buf[got++] = (byte) b;
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                         signalListeners(false);
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                              mClearBufferFlag = false;
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               mClearBufferFlag = status;
          public void clearBuffer() {
               setClearBufferFlag(true);
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          public void gotMore(InputStreamEvent ev);
          public void gotAll(InputStreamEvent ev);
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          public int totalBytesRetrieved;
          public byte buffer[];
          public InputStreamEvent (int bytes, byte buf[]) {
               totalBytesRetrieved = bytes;
               buffer = buf;
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