Claymation with still photos

I am looking for help in importing digital still photos from iphoto to imovieHD 6.0.3. I am trying to set a very short play time so that when viewed as a whole the photos become an animation of three clay figures. I've seen it done w/ older versions of imovie. I've selected all of the photos in the clip viewer and shortened the duration via the photo properties panel and this didn't shorten the play time. I've been able to individually click on clips and set the play time to a shorter length for each individual clip but haven't been able to do this for all of the clips at once, and there are hundreds of them at this point. If anybody has any ideas on how to process all of the clips at once I would really appreciate it. Thanks.

Thank you for the advice. I am not sure if I am clearly understanding your directions. I have clicked the media tab and opened the iphoto library that I want to import. I can see all of the thumbnails. I have selected all of the photos and opened the photo settings box. I've unchecked the KB effect and entered the 00:00:00:01 in the duration box. When I click apply my still photos are imported into the timeline with a duration of 0:09:29. When I select all of the photos in the timeline and click <show photo settings> and then set the duration using the slider to 0:03 (which is the shortest amount of time that it is allowing) it imports the photos with a duration of 0:09:29. It looks like I'll have to hand enther the duration into every "clip" in the timeline.

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