Bulk Transitions?

I am working with hundreds of still images and am hoping that I can bulk add transitions, bulk change transitions, and bulk change length of images.
I have read how to do this in FC Pro but that functionality which is avaiable in iMovie does not appear to be available in FC Express.
thanks,
John Beebe
www.johnbeebe.ca

Tom's link explains the deal.
To put a fine point on FCE "can it be done," yes, provisionally.
Only dissolves will work at the default 1 second duration due to FCE not having any customization ability.
Al

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htp.print('<td CLASS=col-buffer>      </td>');
htp.print('<td CLASS=col-right>Operation Type:</td> ');
htp.print('<td CLASS=col-left>'||v_rec.OPER_TP||'</td>');
htp.print('</tr>');
htp.print('<tr>');
htp.print('<td CLASS=col-right>Plant Type:</td> ');
htp.print('<td CLASS=col-left>'||v_rec.PLANT_TP||'</td>');
htp.print('<td CLASS=col-buffer>      </td>');
htp.print('<td CLASS=col-right>Plant Identifier:</td> ');
htp.print('<td CLASS=col-left>'||v_rec.PLANT_IDENT||'</td>');
htp.print('</tr>');
htp.print('<tr>');
htp.print('<td CLASS=col-right>Mining Method:</td> ');
htp.print('<td CLASS=col-left>'||v_rec.MIN_METH||'</td>');
htp.print('<td CLASS=col-buffer>      </td>');
htp.print('<td CLASS=col-right>Milling Method:</td> ');
htp.print('<td CLASS=col-left>'||v_rec.MILL_METH||'</td>');
htp.print('</tr>');
htp.print('<tr>');
htp.print('<td CLASS=col-right>Year of First Production:</td> ');
htp.print('<td CLASS=col-left>'||v_rec.YFP_BA||v_rec.YR_FST_PRD||'</td>');
htp.print('<td CLASS=col-buffer>      </td>');
htp.print('<td CLASS=col-right>Year of Last Production:</td> ');
htp.print('<td CLASS=col-left>'||v_rec.YLP_BA||v_rec.YR_LST_PRD||'</td>');
htp.print('</tr>');
htp.print('<tr>');
htp.print('<td CLASS=col-right>Years of Production:</td> ');
htp.print('<td CLASS=col-left>'||v_rec.PROD_YRS||'</td>');
htp.print('</tr>');
htp.print('<tr>');
htp.print('<td CLASS=col-right>Year of Discovery:</td> ');
htp.print('<td CLASS=col-left>'||v_rec.DY_BA||v_rec.DISC_YR||'</td>');
htp.print('<td CLASS=col-buffer>      </td>');
htp.print('<td CLASS=col-right>Discovery Method:</td> ');
htp.print('<td CLASS=col-left>'||v_rec.DISC_METH||'</td>');
htp.print('</tr>');
htp.print('<tr>');
htp.print('<td CLASS=col-right>Discoverer:</td> ');
htp.print('<td CLASS=col-left>'||v_rec.DISCR||'</td>');
htp.print('</tr>');
htp.print('<tr>');
htp.print('<td CLASS=col-right>Site Commodity Types:</td> ');
htp.print('<td CLASS=col-left>'||v_rec.SITE_COMMOD_TYPE||'</td>');
htp.print('<td CLASS=col-buffer>      </td>');
htp.print('<td CLASS=col-right>Significant:</td> ');
htp.print('<td CLASS=col-left>'||v_rec.SIG||'</td>');
htp.print('</tr>');
htp.print('<tr>');
htp.print('<td CLASS=col-right>Record added:</td> ');
htp.print('<td CLASS=col-left>'||v_rec.INSERT_DATE||'</td>');
htp.print('<td CLASS=col-buffer>      </td>');
htp.print('<td CLASS=col-right>Added By:</td> ');
htp.print('<td CLASS=col-left>'||v_rec.INSERTED_BY||'</td>');
htp.print('</tr>');
htp.print('<tr>');
htp.print('<td CLASS=col-right>Last Deposit Modification:</td> ');
htp.print('<td CLASS=col-left>'||v_rec.LAST_DEP_MOD||'</td>');
htp.print('<td CLASS=col-buffer>      </td>');
htp.print('<td CLASS=col-right>Last Table Modified:</td> ');
htp.print('<td CLASS=col-left>'||v_rec.LAST_DEP_TABLE||' - '||v_rec.LAST_DEP_ACTION||'</td>');
htp.print('</tr>');
htp.print('</table>');
htp.print('</tt></pre>');
htp.print('<hr>');
END LOOP;
END deposit_info;Again, nothing fancy or convoluted. I then just simply loop through all of my child (and grand-child) tables to get all the data for each of them as well, and handle each of them similarly. It did get a little more convoluted with the child/grand-child relations, but that wasn't anything major, I just had to define the procedure for the grand-child before the child, since the child table had to loop through the grand-child table for each child record.
For your case, in each table's procedure, you can add some checks to see if the current value of a field is the same as the previous value, and not print it if it's same, so you can achieve the break formatting you want.
I ended the package with two other procedures, one that ensures I print all of the code needed to close a HTML document, and the last one simply call all of the procedure in the order I want, as follows:
PROCEDURE doc_end IS
BEGIN
htp.print('</body>');
htp.print('</html>');
END doc_end;
PROCEDURE print_doc(dep_id_in IN NUMBER) IS
BEGIN
doc_start;
Page_Header(dep_id_in);
deposit_info(dep_id_in);
name_info(dep_id_in);
reporter_info(dep_id_in);
location_info(dep_id_in);
geoc_info(dep_id_in);
plss_info(dep_id_in);
commod_info(dep_id_in);
owner_info(dep_id_in);
holdings_info(dep_id_in);
anl_data_info(dep_id_in);
districts_info(dep_id_in);
drainage_info(dep_id_in);
land_st_info(dep_id_in);
physio_info(dep_id_in);
map_info(dep_id_in);
non_stand_map_info(dep_id_in);
model_info(dep_id_in);
orebody_info(dep_id_in);
rock_age_info(dep_id_in);
material_info(dep_id_in);
structures_info(dep_id_in);
tectonic_info(dep_id_in);
concentration_info(dep_id_in);
alteration_info(dep_id_in);
ore_info(dep_id_in);
resource_info(dep_id_in);
production_info(dep_id_in);
workings_info(dep_id_in);
other_dbs_info(dep_id_in);
comments_info(dep_id_in);
bib_references_info(dep_id_in);
doc_end;
END print_doc;It's fairly straightforward, and shouldn't be that difficult to adapt to your needs and data structure, if you know PL/SQL.
The 'stuff' in the deposit_info procedure about 'context' I ran across on a previous thread on here that had a link to the asktom site.
Hope this helps and gets you pointed in the right direction. Feel free to ask any questions.
Bill Ferguson

Slow Transition on the ipad

Greetings,
I've been writing an app in AIR 2.7 for the ipad. I've run into a performance problem when transitioning from one view to another. It takes about 4 seconds before the animation start. The target view has about 15 elements (a mix if list/images and textareas). I believe the problem is in the creation of the elements before the animation starts.
Has anyone else run into this situation? If so...suggestings?
--Klee

Shongruden,
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<s:State name="landscape"/>
<s:State name="portrait"/>
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color: #0000ff;
alpha:.4
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alpha:.4;
fontSize:10;
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color:black;
borderVisible:false;
contentBackgroundColor:white;
editable:false;
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fontSize:16;
color:black;
borderVisible:false;
contentBackgroundColor:white;
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paddingTop:10;
fontSize:25;
paddingLeft:5;
backgroundColor:#cecece;
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If I have a timeline with 50 or more clips (or still shots, in my case) with cross dissolves between each one, I would like to select just the clips, or just the transitions, but not both. How do I do this?
Why? I am creating a video with hundreds of stills and a few video clips, and occasiionally need to change the duration of all stills at the same time (from 3 seconds to 4, for example). Or, if I want all of the cross dissolves to last 1:15 instead of 1:00, it would be nice to select and change them all at once. However, in both cases, I can't figure out how to select all 50 without having to Command-click 50 times.
Any ideas you have will be appreciated.
Bart

To perform the same duration change on just the transitions (cross dissolves, in this example), this technique will work:
Open timeline index.
Enter "cross" in the search box (or whatever transition you're wanting to change).
Select all cross dissolves in list (click one, then type Command-A).
Click the time strip in the top of the timeline area.
All of the transitions in the list should now be selected in the timeline.
Control-D to change duration.
Enter new duration.
Hit Return.
I hope this saves someone all of the time I spent on it today. I'm still ahead, though, thanks to Tom's help. This saved litterally hundreds of Command-clicks.
Bart

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