Image duration

Hi, New member here.
I have 3002 individual images in a time line. I would like to change the duration of these images all at once.
Is there a select all feature I am missing? I have tried to fit the images to the visible time line so the all show up
on screen, and then select them all by dragging the coursor box around them so I could right click and select time stretch to change the duration, but they do not select.
Any help with this would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks

Hi Paul,
Ultimately, you should be rendering the correct number of frames right from the 3D program. In other words, if you want the video to play smoothly as 30fps, then render 30 frames for each second. A 10-second clip should consist of 300 frames then, and with duration in Premiere set to 1 frame, and a sequence at 30fps, then it ought to be nice and smooth. As soon as you start stretching the time one way of the other, some frames need to be duplicated or skipped and that is always going to effect the playback smoothness. The math just doesn't come out to support smooth playback otherwise.
Thanks
Jeff Pulera
Safe Harbor Computers

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