Editing clip times for bulk clips (time lapse content)

sorry if this has been asked tons of times, i searched but found no answer.
i'm doing a time lapse video, and have about 500 images uploaded so far. is there any way, after dragging the images down to the timeline, to edit them all at once? i've been doing each one by one, and it's a pain in the *ss.
any help is much appreciated!

G'day davidson,
The main reason I posed that question was that the folks that know way more than I do would've probably asked that question first. They may know of a better way of actually applying a single edit across multiple clips but I did find a way that may suit your purpose. With all clips in the clips pane go to Edit>Select All then drag to the timeline or clip viewer whilst maintaining Select All (i.e. all clips highlighted in blue). Go to Video FX in Editing and select Fast/Slow/Reverse and drag the slider toward Faster until you get the desired effect in the Preview and click Apply. I only did a short test over a few clips and it seemed to work and of course I wasn't able to set the clip duration but the slider would probably work fine for time-lapse effect. Obviously it was important to keep all the clips as Selected.

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