CONTROLLING TIME OF STILL SLIDES IN IMOVIE

WHEN I TRY INSERTING A DESIRED TIME FOR A SLIDE IN "CLIP ADJUSTMENTS" THE RESULT IS NEVER WHAT I ENTER. IF I ENTER 2 SECONDS, FOR EXAMPLE, I'M LIABLE TO GET 6S. IF I EXPERIMENT GOING DOWN IN SECONDS, I GET ALL THE WAY TO .1, AFTER WHICH IT WILL GO TO 3.5 OR 4, BUT NOT LOWER. HOW CAN I GET THE DURATION I WANT?

ALL CAPS means 'shouting' on this board ... please be polite to others.
the time-format in any video is (hours:)minutes:seconds:frames ..
so, two seconds is 00:02:00
if you need very short stills, switch off the Ken Burns effect: select the still-clip, click the crop tool, choose crop or it.

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Greetings.
I have a Nikon D2x that will shoot time lapse photography. I tried a test of 30 images (one second of video). So I have a folder of JPG images which I then resized to 640x480 at 72dpi.
At first I tried to import these stills into IM just by dragging and dropping my pictures into the clips window to the right of the viewer. It took a while for these to "render" but when they finished, I placed a few of the images in the time line.
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Jonathan

how do you take a sequence of still photos and have them play each for 1/30 or 1/24 of a second so that I can see the out come of my time lapse photography?
The easiest is to use QuickTime Pro ($30, from Apple). It lets you import a series of images to a movie, creating just what you want. You can tell it to import the images at 30 frames per second or any duration you want.
It can be done in iMovie too, but there are some hurdles. One is that iMovie lets us import a photo with a duration no shorter than 3 frames per second (shown as 0:00:03).
But there is a back door. See this topic:
http://discussions.apple.com/click.jspa?searchID=-1&messageID=3210397
I pressed play, thinking that each photo would show for 1/30th of a second, but what happened instead, stayed on the first photo, did a pan out, and then went to the next photo.
That happened because the Ken Burns settings in the Photo Settings window were set to zoom in. Turn off the Ken Burns checkbox and import the image as a still instead of an animated video clip.
Karl

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I am almost ready to publish my imovie of still pictures. However when I preview the imovie the stills in the viewer do not match up to the stills under the curser? Some of the pictures never show up at all. Any advice would be helpful.

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It was all going fine until I added in just one more transition and then it seemed to all get messed up.
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Objects to show at different times on a slide not showing up

Hi Everyone,
I hope this problem is minor and that I’m just missing a small step but here it goes…
I’m using Captivate 4 and I’ve only been using it on one particular computer. I updated a captivate project that I’ve been working on since September and I’ve finished all the edits (added a picture, changed a few words) as requested by colleauges when all of a sudden, some objects that were suppose to show at different times on the slide were not showing up at all. The frustrating part is I actually finished the project! When I do a preview within the edit view, the objects appear as it should, however, when I publish it or do a preview on wepage, the objects are not appearing at all (ie a word at 10 sec, another at 20 sec). Anway, there were only 3 slides acting like this, all with objects are suppose to show up at different times on the slide (these were not the slides that I recently edited). My video works fine, my quiz works fine, and I’ve uploaded an initial version of my work on a Pathlore LMS with no problems (publish specs: flash 8, AS2).
I have several other projects that are less complicated (ie no video, no objects showing at different times within the slide) and they are OK. I’ve checked on other computers and same problem.
I tried deleting the slides, and redoing it again within the same project but still wont work I tried copying everthing on a new project with the same size with no luck.
I tried making a 2 slide project with objects showing up at different times and it works.
Is my project corrupted in some way? What are the possible culprits for this problem?
I really hope I don’t have to start from scratch…
Thanks in advance!

Hi there
While it's certainly possible that the project has somehow become corrupt, you might find that simply closing and restarting Captivate changes things.
Have you tried that? I've seen it where bits and pieces are suddenly missing. After I restarted, things were just fine again.
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HELP ME PLEASE !
I have been trying to edit the times of stills and transitions. I do what is instructed but it always comes back with a totally random number. What am I doing wrong ?

Welcome to iMovie Discussions.
You don't say HOW you are "..trying to edit the times of stills and transitions".
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photoBob6 wrote:
Is it possible to import a Keynote slide into Imovie?
sure ..
https://sites.google.com/site/karstenschluter/how-to-make-a-vidcast/keynote
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