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Adding Fixed Number of Markers at Fixed Durations

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September 6, 2017
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Is there a way to add 21 markers to a sequence at 05:25 minutes in duration per each marker without having to manually start from 00:00:00 add 00:05:25, then go to a calculator and add 5.25 more to that number, and repeat that process 21 times? It seems a little excessive to have to manually add 5.25, 21 times to a sequence.

I have 21 clips I want at the same length for 5 minutes and 25 seconds per clip.

Is it easier to make 21 sequences for 5.25 each

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Manually insert a Marker by pressing M to add a marker every 5.25 minutes in duration 21 times?

What is the easiest and fastest way to add clips for a set duration, so they all fit within a certain fixed amount of time?

I have like 4 minutes to add 21 clips at the same duration. I came up with a 5.25 per clip (which may be inaccurate as this is my first time trying to create multiple clips in markers as a guide like I can add in Photoshop every x value, then bring in my photos at those guides. Is there a better and more effective way to handle this type of operation in PPCC 2017?

Sincerely,

Christopher

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Cold White FireAuthor

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I figured it out.
Someone said I could find the timecode in the Work Area Bar which I didn't know what that was so I Googled it.

This is what I found:

You don't need a timecode calculator because the Work Area Bar can be adjusted visually to any specific range and it snaps like in the .gif image:

Here are the sources where I found this resolution:

This was the kicker for me that helped me figure out the time I needed for empty space I wanted to change the duration into:

So I tested this out to see if I could get the results like they are talking about myself:

I could find the area of the negative empty space, but I need to divide the duration by an x value of stills; which to me looks like this or something close to it:

Am I able to complete this function and get this done in a specific way without this example image? I just don't know how to do it, and it seems like there should be a tool that I can select all the stills and scale them out to the duration in the Work Area Bar Duration, and it would scale them evenly, and snap to the end.

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Cold White FireAuthor

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I don't know how to find the new duration specifically.

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excited_Genie16B8

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Is there a better and more effective way to handle this type of operation in PPCC 2017?

To answer that, it might help if we knew why you wanted this. It's certainly not a standard move. What are you trying to achieve here?

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Cold White FireAuthor

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Jim_Simon wrote
Is there a better and more effective way to handle this type of operation in PPCC 2017?
To answer that, it might help if we knew why you wanted this. It's certainly not a standard move. What are you trying to achieve here?

The purpose of my doing this is I have multiple portfolio pieces I want to export a video to match custom audio I have at a certain time. I want the 21 pieces to be shown at an equal interval between my beginning and ending title blocks and contact information.

I don't mind how long the stills are shown, I just want them to be equal in duration, and make my guides or markers so I can figure out how much time equally each still would take up visually to just drag and drop them in.

After I get all of the markers in, then I just drag and drop in my stills, export and done.

I appreciate your wanting to know why, so I could make this annotation.

Thank you!

Christopher

Stan Jones

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Are these "clips" (moving video) or stills?

Ann Bens

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Select the clips in the project window, right click, Create Mulitcam source sequence.

Right click on this new sequence and open in timeline.

Now they are stack on top of each other, make the length you want them to be.

When done move the timeline as you want them.

Or make a bin first, move them from the timeline into this bin: now you have trimmed clips in a bin.

You can remove all the other bins with content.

Drag this new bin into the timeline for new sequence.

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Cold White FireAuthor

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https://forums.adobe.com/people/Ann+Bens wrote
Select the clips in the project window, right click, Create Mulitcam source sequence.
Right click on this new sequence and open in timeline.
Now they are stack on top of each other, make the length you want them to be.
When done move the timeline as you want them.
Or make a bin first, move them from the timeline into this bin: now you have trimmed clips in a bin.
You can remove all the other bins with content.
Drag this new bin into the timeline for new sequence.

Do you have a gif of these steps? Just curious...

Ann Bens

Community Expert

Nope.

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