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am i being silly when i expect that the "default object duration" preference setting to honour whatever value is given after in decimals there for seconds instead of round it up or down to the nearest whole second as it seems to do????
yeah yeah, 12.5 seconds in 25 fps does equal a half frame, but why does it give me options that aren't really available????
this mickey mouse tool is getting more and more on my nerves...

ok, translation - step by step:
in motion, got to Motion -> Preferences -> Project Panel
under Still Images & Objects, you will find Custom Default Duration, with options "Use project duration" or "Use custom duration".
behind "Use custom duration" you will find a text entry field that will let you enter a custom duration (duh) and a popup menu that will let you select whether the number you entered is in frames or seconds.
now please humour me and set this to "seconds" and then enter, let's say "10.5"
in ntsc, this should give you a custom duration of 10.5 x 29.97 frames == a standard duration of 314.685 frames (for those of us who use pal video, that should be 262.5 frames duration).
instead of rounding this up or down to the nearest round number, the moment you close the preferences and reopen it, motion will have changed your 10.5 to 10.0
try entering any other decimal number and you will find that motion resets it to 0
in other words; motion __pretends to be giving you the option to enter default duration in decimals, but in reality, you can only have full seconds default duration or you will have to do the maths yourself and switch to setting the number of frames you would like to have as default duration
as for why this would bother me enough to post here? it is part of a long gripe with the endless number of mickey mouse "features" that motion seems to have.
but if you can explain why it would be a good idea for an interface to allow the user to enter decimals as a default value and then, as soon as the user clicks away to ignore the decimal, by all means, please do enlighten me!

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