Set duration of still frame

I have a few hundered short clips on the timeline.
Now i want to put my watermark on it.
I created my name in PS, saved it as PNG file and brought it in the timeline above my videos. No matter what I do, I can not stretch the stillframe longer than 00:02:10:01. The total lenght of my footage is 01:30:00:00. I tried to set it in pref, before putting the frame on the timeline, I rightclicked on it, change duration..... none worked. (Copy, Paste, Paste...etc, will not work, because I have to export every clip indivituell. I need 1 frame, 1.5 hours long, because I will need to cut right there where the clip ends.
Also tried to drag the clip (it worked a little bit, but not much)
Thank you

Sooooo,
Thanks for explaining your needs. Although they puzzle me sometimes.
Because if your source footage is DVCPRO NTSC (720x480), there's no need to convert it to HD.
The PhotoJPEG's (or ProRes files) are to be viewed on a computer. And computers don't care about NTSC or PAL. They can just play it. Only DVD players and televisions can be picky about that issue. Computers and computermonitors do not bother at all. Besides that: HD is international, but still there's a difference in Framerate between US and Europe for instance, so you do not eliminate that problem.
So main question is: Is the original footage DVCPRO NTSC? Then stay in NTSC.
Is the main footage DVCPRO HD, then stay in HD.
Whatever choice you make, at least keep the framerate the same as your original footage.
Because I don't know the specs of you footage, the below examples are examples. Change the settings to wahtever suits you (or your footage) best.
First, let's do it again. Please follow the instructions. Do not only look at the pictures.
Skip the whole FCP idea. It won't help you.
Now, open Compressor.
Find the NTSC 100 Photo Jpeg preset. I know, that might not be the one you want. But hold on: Select it and press Command D for Duplicate. You'll now see a copy.
Select the copy. And now in the Inspector window you can give it a new name and tweak all settings.
- You say you want the quality to 91 % ? So go into Inspector's second Tab.
Press the video settings (second arrow in the above image)
In there choose your settings. Now the Quality slider does not have numbers. So it's guessing. But in the Inspector you can see what setting it turned out to be (third arrow in the above picture). You'll need to go a bit back and forth with this until it's 91. If that is really what you want....
Happy so far?
Now the frame size. Again choose whether you need NTSC or HD.
If you want the new files to be the same size as the original footage, then choose this:
If you like to force NTSC into 720pHD, then you need to choose this:
(You might need to change the fielddominance to Progressive (in one of the other tabs) in that paricular case)
....read on in the next reply [I think there's a maximum of screen grab's, I can't add them any more]

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IMovie 11 - set duration for still pictures in project

Hi,
I work with iMovie 11 since recently and I never had any problem with previous versions. Now I'm doing my first project in iM 11 and it just ignores my request for setting durations to still pictures.
When I set the duration in 'Project Properties' 'Apply to all photos' to 4 sec for example it will set the duration anything from 5 to 7 sec and no matter how often I change it will not react. This is very annoying. Is there anything I have overlooked?
What can I do? Thanks for help.
thl

A transition borrows frames from the photos or video clips on either side of a transition. There is a general rule that a transition cannot be longer then half the length of the shortest adjacent clip or photo.
Also, check the setting for EDIT/TRANSITION OVERLAP.
I copied the following from iMovie Help...
Whether transitions are added to your project automatically or manually, you can set how much they overlap with the clips they’re adjacent to. This setting, which applies to all transitions in your project, affects the duration of your project.
Double-click any transition icon in your project. In the inspector that opens, choose an option from the Overlap pop-up menu:
All - Maintain Clip Range: The two clips are made to overlap by the length of the transition, and the transition is placed over the overlapping region. In this case, no additional content from clip ends is added. The total duration of your project decreases by the length of the transition.
Half - Maintain Project Duration: The transition is placed so that it spans the clips; one half of the transition overlaps each clip. In this case, additional content from the end of each clip is added to fill out the transition. The total duration of your project remains the same.

Setting duration of still images

I'm having a problem trying to make a timelapse. I'm importing from iphoto into imovieHD. I turn off the Ken Burns feature and set the duration to the shortest setting (00:03). This should be a duration of 3 frames, correct? What happens, however is a duration much longer, usually 9 and a half seconds. I'm very confused- any help??
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Odd that you should see that.
Normally it would show 0:00:00 (minutes, seconds, frames).
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Hi Thali-Hoo,
What you're going to want to do is take advantage of the timer class here, use a document class for your FLA and use an undocumented method addFrameScript. I've written up a sample of how to do all of this and posted it in a zip file. Basically here's what I've done though:
package
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    import flash.events.Event;
    import flash.events.TimerEvent;
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     * @author Jesse Nicholson
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Jesse
PS - DL The example here! http://ascensionsystems.ca/Pause Timeline.zip

Problems setting duration for still photos and transitions in iMovie '11

I downloaded iMovie 11 from the Apps Store last night and am trying to make my first movie with it today. I use still photos exclusively.
For most - but not all - I like 5 seconds for photos and for transitions 2 seconds. I do vary this on occasion and so do not check "for all photos' or "for all transitions".
I can't get these settings to work with this version of iMovie. For example, I added a photo (5 sec) then a transition (2 sec) which changed the duration time of the photo - as it should. But when I double clicked the photo, to bring up the inspector window to change the duration of the photo, nothing happened. Then I added another photo. The duration of the first photo increased to 7 seconds and nothing I do seemed to change that.
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Interesting!!
I've spent a lot of hours on this too, but I have come up with a different solution perhaps because I like to vary both the image duration and the transition duration in my movies.
Here's my process:
-> Knowing that (a) I want most of the photos to be visible for 5 seconds and most transitions for 2 seconds and (b) that a transition takes half from the photo before and half from the photo after, under File>Project Properties>Photo Duration I chose 7 seconds - each photo will 'lose' a total of 2 seconds from the transitions in front and behind. I did not check either "Applies to all transitions." or "Applies to all photos." - See below for why.
-> I discovered, as you have, that all the photos have to go in before I add any transitions. This was new to me. With all previous versions of iMovie I simply added a photo then a transition then another photo one at a time. I had to fiddle with the timing adjustments, but at least I could fiddle. With this new version of iMovie I can't. Once the transition is in place, I cannot change the duration of the photo.
-> Sometimes, I want a longer or shorter duration for a photo. For example, on photos to which I apply the Ken Burns effect, I often want the image on the screen for a slightly longer time. In this case, I have to use the inspector to change the duration before I add the transitions. So I might set the time for 8 seconds; when both transitions are added, the time for this photo becomes 6 seconds, which is what I want.
-> The same applies if I want a transition to be shorter or longer than 2 seconds. If, for example, I want the duration for a transition to be 1 second, then I have to change the duration on the two linked photos to 5 1/2 seconds.
All of this requires much more prior planning than I am used to with iMovie. Right now, I working with batches of 5 or 6 photos at a time. I don't put a transition on the last photo in the batch until I have added the next group of photos. And things get really tricky if I don't like my original design. If I want to change anything, I have to take out all of the transitions linking the photos I want to work on, do the math, make the changes in the photo durations, then put the transitions back.
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Thanks for sharing your process. I will use it when the circumstances are right.

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Preset or change duration of still photos in iMovie project

Hi,
I work with iMovie 11 and never had any problem with previous versions.
Now I'm doing my first project in iM 11 and it just ignores my requests
When I set the duration in 'Project Properties' 'Apply to all photos' to e.g. 4 sec it will set the duration anything from 5 to 7 sec and no matter how often I change it will not react. If I set it to 3 sec (as an example) it will allow 5 sec. but never what I would like the duration to be.
This is a really annoying issue, more so when there a lot of still photos in the project.
Is there any way to rectify this or what else can I do???
thl

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Howdy -
I realize there are already similar posts to this one, but so far as I could tell, most of them involve (& focus on) transitions, whereas my issue is strictly with setting the duration for which a photo is held in iMovie.
Effectively, I am trying to get a 'stop motion' feel from iMovie. I deselected the auto-apply 'Ken Burns' to all photo imports in the project preferences and figured I would edit the photo duration afterwards, given that the shortest possible duration in the project preferences is 1s, which is much too long. That is where I run into trouble: the "duration" field is acting up a great deal - sometimes it won't even respond to my entering different numbers, other times it will. Sometimes when it does respond to my typing numbers, it won't let me type anything in the decimal position. When it does let me type something in the decimal position, e.g. 0.2s, when I hit enter, it re-sets the time to 2.0s. I've tried different formats for entering time (0:00:2; 0:00:02; 0,2; with & w/out 's' etc) - all to no avail.
I'm very curious to know if anyone else has reported this problem, & if so what the solution is.
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Although this is a perfectly easy workaround, I'm a little disconcerted by the fact that iMovie won't repond properly & would be very interested to understand why.
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Kind regards,
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Hi Rax,
This may not help, but in iMovie Preferences there is an option to display time down to the frame level. So, rather than entering time as a decimal, you enter each time component separated by a colon. So, 2.5 seconds would be entered as 2:15 - that's 2 seconds and 15 frames (for NTSC or 30 fps formatted video).
See this screenshot:
As I mentioned, this may not help. At times I've also had trouble adjusting the duration of stills, even though I have my preferences set to display time at the frame level. Transitions can cause issues with stills duration. In most cases, a transition can be no longer than half the duration of the shortest clip on either side.
Notwithstanding the transition methodology, my feeling is that there is a bug in iMovie that causes problems with stills duration in certain circumstances. This applies to both iMovie '09 and iMovie '11 (also possibly '08).
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How to set duration on multiple still images?

Is there a way to select a range of stills within a project and set the duration of them all to the same value. One can copy the image adjustments from a still and then paste that to multiple stills, but there isn't a Paste Adjustments menu item for duration.
The only way I've found to accomplish this is rather clumbsy. Copy the selected images to a new project and then with the project properties set all the durations to the same value there, and copy them back into the original project. This also limits the choices for the duration to whole seconds between 1 and 10, so if you want 1:15 we're out of luck apparently.
Is there a better way?
Also the min. duration seems to be 0:08. Setting the duration to anything less results in the duration being set to 0:08.

AFAIK there is no easy way to set a range of clips to the same duration. The only method within iMovie I know of was the one outlined above, copy to a new project, set all in that project and copy back to original project. That works but is slow and a clumsy way to do it.
What's missing is a paste duration command and/or a setting in the dialog to set duration for the selected photos (plural since the range has yellow outlines around the thumbnails, says to me they are the selected photos).
Also the values as x:ff are not seconds. It's seconds and frames. So ff can only range between 0 and 29, thus 8.97 isn't a valid value and when I used it to set a duration the duration ended up being 11:07. I understand the 11 (90 additional frames, thus 3 seconds more) with 7 additional frames.
Apparently you can not set a duration of just a single frame in iMovie - no subliminal messages allowed I guess. (There were no transitions between the images.)

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