Multiple Images On The Timeline Being Rapidly Displayed...

[1957GoldTop]

I’m trying to add a series of images to the timeline. I want them each to be .3 seconds long but I’m having a hell of a time getting things lined up. Either the interface is not meant for this type of situation or I’m missing something. Even if I have the timeline view set to 300%, the images are too small to easily drag around and set the timing points.

Things aren’t lining up, there are gaps, and other issues trying to drag sliders and move things around with elements this small.

Is there an easier way to do this? Can I set the time of each image by typing it in rather than using the slider?

I did this same thing in iMovie a couple years ago and it took me a few seconds per image having never used iMovie before. I’ve been trying to get this to work in AE for the last 30 minutes with no luck. Hopefully I’m missing something and this can be done easily.

Basically I want a series of 10-20 images to rapidly display in succession, each with about .3 seconds on screen.

Jeff

[AkinGn]

Hello, if I'm not missing something, you can easily equalize the durations of the scenes by editing first one's duration to what you like (.3s in this case) and clicking the three dots button on that scene, and selecting "Apply duration to all" from the menu that opens. Hope this helps since with this method you only need to set the duration in one scene. 
Happy designing!

[1957GoldTop]

Thanks for the reply...I was hoping for something like that, however I'm ot seeing that option:

[AkinGn]

Hello, I meant scenes at the bottom, next to the play button, not to the image itself (Please check the screenshot I added). When you hover over any scene at the bottom, you'll see a three dot button, you need to click that and select "Apply duration to all" option. (Of course you need to add a new scene for every new image, otherwise that wouldn't solve the issue for the scenes with multiple images, as you guess 😉 ) Hope this helps!

[1957GoldTop]

Oh, I'm really confused now... so if I want 10 images that show for 1 second each I have to make ten 1 second scenes rather than having one 10 second scene with 10 images at 1 second each?

And, this project has many other scenes that are different length... so if I "apply duration to all" then all the other scenes will be changed.

So, it sounds like there is no easy way to do what i want in AE.

[AkinGn]

Under these circumstances (until there's a way of changing multiple selected scenes' durations by entering a value) it's best to create a new scene (as you know it takes only clicking a plus button next to a scene) for every new image and equalizing their lenghts seems like the only way. I'm sure if any other expert/staff member comes up with any other solution they let us know. 

To keep things as easy as possible, what I'd do is first handling the images with equal durations and then adding the other scenes. Like handling "one module" of scenes, including first the 1s ones and then the other ones, and then selecting multiple scenes by clicking on them while holding ctrl or cmd, and then right click > duplicate (or ctrl/cmd-D) them (treating them like a "component of scenes"). Then changing the images in the duplicated group of scenes. That's how I'd do. Hope this helps!

[1957GoldTop]

Thanks... i guess I'll give that a try... is there a way to group multiple scenes so I can drag them all around at once?

[AkinGn]

Hmm I've checked again now and I can only drag multiple scenes by selecting them while holding cmd and clicking on multiple scenes, then I can drag them, but couldn't find a way to group them. Right now as a workaround I'd do that way