Still image length

i am making a stop motion thing and i cant seem to change my image length lower than 1 second. i want it to be shorter than 1 second. when i select all the images and then go to duration and try to change it to lower than 1 second it wont let me. example 00:00:01:00 i try and change it to 00:00:00:45 it just thinks i want 1.15 seconds. i want .45 seconds.

Afromatics,
The last number are frames, since each second is devided in frames (hence frames per second). So when using NTSC :45 would results in 1:15 since there are only 29,97 frames per second.
Snerg

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