Best way to make a Stop Motion on FCE?

I didnt realy do much research on this topic to be honest. only way i figured i could do a stop motion would be to just take all the stills and make them realy short next to eachother. Is there a way to simotaniosly change all of their durations? once again, this may very well be right under my nose and very obvious to everyone, but im in no rush to get an answer so i thought id just post it here and award some points .
-Josh M

Hi again Josh,
You've a few options here. If you've got Photoshop and a decent stills camera, you can get the photos into Photoshop and make any group adjustments necessary by batch automating the process (i. re-size, change pixel aspect ratio, apply any filters/effects) before batch importing into Final Cut.
If you scroll down to the "next you need to automate this process" paragraph in this post, you'l get a description of how to do this.
If you don't have Photoshop, you can do this using a video camera - just record a couple of seconds at a time and go Modify>make freeze frame (after setting the freeze frame duration in the editing tab of the user preferences menu)
Be prepared for a long shoot!

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