Converting Time-Lapse Stills to Motion

Hello All,
A friend of mine built a bridge on his property. He mounted a still camera in a tree, and had the camera take a picture ever 1/2 hour for 3 weeks. His desire is to create a time lapse film out of the pictures.
He has given me a disc with many pictures, and I'm looking for the most efficient way to handle them. For example, I wanted to reduce all of them to 3 seconds, as most of the time, there is no activity (all was dependent if something was happening on camera during that specific moment within the given half hour. I tried to adjust the duration of one, and paste those attributes to all, but that didn't work.
Any thoughts on handling this project with ease would be appreciated.
Cheers,
DG

Also search here for time lapse and timelapse. We've entertained lots of these threads.
Three seconds per image is not time lapse, it's inhumane. You want each frame to be one frame so thirty frames go by in one second.
You could bring your images into iPhoto and tell is to output 3 seconds per frame with a dissolve between each.
bogiesan

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